Even the WaPo isn't spinning this one, George

the best they could do was to stick it on page a21...

Sobering Conclusions On Why Jihad Has Spread

By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; Page A21

In announcing yesterday that he would release the key judgments of a controversial National Intelligence Estimate, President Bush said he agreed with the document's conclusion "that because of our successes against the leadership of al-Qaeda, the enemy is becoming more diffuse and independent."

But the estimate itself posits no such cause and effect. Instead, while it notes that counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged and disrupted al-Qaeda's leadership, it describes the spreading "global jihadist movement" as fueled largely by forces that al-Qaeda exploits but is not actively directing. They include Iraq, corrupt and unjust governments in Muslim-majority countries, and "pervasive anti-U.S. sentiment among most Muslims."

the entire story can be summed up in the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second... we'll have to wait to see how this plays out... george appears to have gotten his you-know-what firmly caught in the wringer this time... will the usual rovian tactic of either creating a new diversion or waiting until the a.d.d.-besot media and american public lose interest work for them yet again...? stay tuned...

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