President Bush ordered the declassification of a fraction of a report by the U.S. Intelligence Agency on the global threat against terror.  He wanted to release this document to the public so voters would not be confused about terrorism before the November elections.  These three declassified pages for this voluminous report tells Americans nothing that they should not already know.  The invasion of Iraq was a cataclysmic disaster.  The current situation will get worse if American forces leave.  Neither the report nor the President provides any suggestions about how to avoid that inevitable disaster.

So basically what it all comes down to is Bush was hiding a document from the American public that spelled out nothing new for us.  Maybe if the rest of the document would become available to the public, we would know exactly why it is infarct classified.  Could he possibly think that we really have no idea what is going on with the war in Iraq that it is crucial to hide the truth from us?  Certainly this cannot be.  You can ask anyone off the street how the war is going, and they can give you a pretty accurate answer.

I think that the way we are handling the war in Iraq is completely absurd.  I do not blame President Bush for this directly, because this mainly falls on the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield's shoulders.  He is the one responsible for the way this is being handled, and personally I do not approve of the job he is doing.  I think with a better Secretary of Defense, we could move closer to ending this conflict in Iraq.