Bush has lost the war.

It is now completely clear that Bush has lost the war. Not his voluntary diversion into Iraq, the idiocy that was supposed to somehow remake the middle east. No, bush has completely lost the war on Terrorism. From the Associated Press by way of Yahoo News we get the most recent report on the real enemy of America (other then the conservatives, racists and religious extremists who make up today's Republican Party.) The real enemy? Al Qaeda.

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaida has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, The Associated Press has learned. The conclusion suggests that the group that launched the most devastating terror attack on the United States has been able to regroup along the Afghan-Pakistani border despite nearly six years of bombings, war and other tactics aimed at crippling it. [Snip]

Counterterrorism analysts produced the document, titled "Al-Qaida better positioned to strike the West." The document 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.

Al-Qaida is "considerably operationally stronger than a year ago" and has "regrouped to an extent not seen since 2001," the official said, paraphrasing the report's conclusions. "They are showing greater and greater ability to plan attacks in Europe and the United States."

The group also has created "the most robust training program since 2001, with an interest in using European operatives," the official quoted the report as saying.

At the same time, this official said, the report speaks of "significant gaps in intelligence" so U.S. authorities may be ignorant of potential or planned attacks.

John Kringen, who heads the CIA's analysis directorate, echoed the concerns about al-Qaida's resurgence during testimony and conversations with reporters at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.

"They seem to be fairly well settled into the safe haven and the ungoverned spaces of Pakistan," Kringen testified. "We see more training. We see more money. We see more communications. We see that activity rising."

So while Bush has been spending American tax money money like he was the spendthrift alcoholic son of an extremely wealthy father and telling American service people to lay down their lives in the great side-track of Iraq, al Qaeda has been quietly rebuilding all it lost from the invasion into Afghanistan and becoming an even greater threat to America.

Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld carefully allowed bin Laden to escape when he was surrounded at the complex at Tora Bora. For this great service, Gen. Tommy Franks was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The misbegotten war in Iraq has since drained American resources from Afghanistan where they could have been applied directly to al Qaeda, while creating a diversion in Iraq that has attracted Jihadists from all over the Arab world to attack Americans. Iraq has also created the greatest motivator for Jihadists to join al Qaeda that that organization has ever had, while attracting otherwise unrelated terrorist groups to use the name al Qaeda in order to build up their own reputation and recruiting power.

The result has been sharply reduced resources available to actually fight al Qaeda troops, allowing them to grow more powerful based largely on their reputation for being able to "stick it to the Americans" in Iraq.

There has never been a better example of utter incompetence in the Presidential Office than George W. Bush. Nearly six years now he has supposedly fought against al Qaeda, with the result that al Qaeda is at least as powerful now as they were six years ago on 9/11.

Consider this for an example of extreme incompetence in action. The so-called war on terror couldn't have gone much worse for America if Bush had simply continued to ignore terrorism after 9/11 as he did before that date.