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Some interesting points to consider:

When the NYT released the portions of the leaked report, the right-wing noise machine immediately attacked them for “cherry-picking” only the data that supported their supposition. When the 4 pages were declassified, they immediately jumped on the the sentence, ‘Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves,
and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.’, they immediately spun it as a validation of Bush’s foreign policy.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. The oft-quoted paragraph is in fact, two separate statements that stand on their own and don’t rely on the presence of the other statement for clarification.

A more accurate interpretation of the paragraph would be,

-Bush’s war of choice serves as a global recruiting tool for Islamic radicals. (1st sentence)

-The “success” of the jihadist movement relies on continued perseverance in their bloody struggle until the bitter end. (2nd sentence)

BOTH of these statements stand in direct contradiction to what the Bush Administration has claimed: Preemptive war is the best way to reduce Islamic radicalism; and, the jihadist movement will be quelled via further advancement of democratic process in Iraq.

The NIE report confirms what the majority of Americans already suspected: The Bush Administration has recklessly charged into a protracted war under false pretenses that now presents us only with an ever-foreboding list of alternatives.