BUT WERE WINNING, RIGHT? RIGHT?

Looks like another legacy piece for Bush-Cheney. LOST Doesn't want the apology due from all the idiots who voted for these twin poles of stupidity because they'd "like to sit down and have a beer with 'em, but maybe y'all donning your ashes and sackcloth for the next eighteen months isn't a bad idea. Think of it as doing a part of what Scooter should have done. Looks like getting all those "Al Qaeda number 2s and 3s was only half right - from an Adminstration that works in number 2 the way Van Gogh worked in oil. This may cause the President to scale back his August vacation again - only 4 weeks instead of five this year, right?

Al-Qaida Has Rebuilt, U.S. Intel Warns

By MATTHEW LEE and KATHERINE SHRADER
WASHINGTON - A new threat assessment from U.S. counterterrorism analysts says that al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001.

A counterterrorism official familiar with a five-page summary of the document _ titled "Al-Qaida better positioned to strike the West" _ called it a stark appraisal. The analysis will be part of a broader meeting at the White House on Thursday about an upcoming National Intelligence Estimate.
The official and others spoke to The Associated Press on condition they not be identified because the report remains classified.
The findings suggests that the network that launched the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil has been able to regroup despite nearly six years of bombings, war and other tactics aimed at dismantling it.

The threat assessment focuses on the terror group's safe haven in Pakistan and makes a range of observations about the threat posed to the United States and its allies, officials said.

Counterterrorism officials have been increasingly concerned about al-Qaida's recent operations. This week, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he had a "gut feeling" that the United States faced a heightened risk of attack this summer.