Tikkabik

Like or lump Dick Clarke, he said one thing in his interview with 60 Minutes last week that really caught my ear:

"Osama bin Laden had been saying for years, 'America wants to invade an Arab country and occupy it, an oil-rich Arab country. He had been saying this. This is part of his propaganda," adds Clarke.

"So what did we do after 9/11? We invade an oil-rich and occupy an oil-rich Arab country which was doing nothing to threaten us. In other words, we stepped right into bin Laden's propaganda. And the result of that is that al Qaeda and organizations like it, offshoots of it, second-generation al Qaeda have been greatly strengthened

Regardless of how you feel about the guy's book or his veracity, it's hard to argue with his logic: That the Bush administration has demonstrated a catastrophically bad foreign policy with regards to the Middle East, and a pig-ignorant understanding of how to handle muslim extremism worldwide.

It's just reason #3,482 while I'll be voting for Kerry this fall.