Elsewhere in the Empire of Bush

Remember when the president told us we were fighting in Iraq so we wouldn't see the terrorists here? Well, he's either doing an extraordinarily good job or a (my lord) very bad one.

Here:

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that Iraq has become an even greater “center for terrorist activities” than Afghanistan under the Taliban.

Annan, speaking to British Broadcasting Corp., said many young Muslims are angry, and their anger has been exacerbated by what is happening in Iraq.

“They feel victimized in their own society; they feel victimized in the West. And they feel there’s profiling against them,” he said. “And the Iraqi situation has not helped matters.”

So we've actually turned Iraq - with better conditions - into a better epicenter for bad guys (from our perspective) than Afghanistan. That's REALLY hard to do, btw.