Progressive Democrat Issue 37: NATIONAL SECURITY: The great failure of George Bush

From a Daily Kos diary.

A small discussion of Bush's somewhat inexplicable "tough on terror" reputation came up in another diary recently. In thinking about this afterward, I realized how important it is that we (and Democratic pols) hammer away at this misconception.
Bush's fading popularity is looking too "September 10th" for my comfort. Whatever you believe about how 9/11 came to be, surely recent events make it obvious BushCo will do almost anything for political motives. I personally am concerned they might "let one slip through". But those who are not as paranoid can still find plenty of reasons to keep Bush's terror failings in the light of day.
Here are a just a few reasons why Bush is the opposite of "Strong on terror" (feel free to add to the list):

1. 9/11 was his fault -- whether you believe BushCo let it happen or made it happen, it happened, on his watch, and was a stellar example of obliviousness.

2. Since then, we have helped Osama and radical Islam by blowing up lots of innocent Muslims and bumbling around in Iraq and Afghanistan without any clear vision.

3. We've made ourselves more dependent on the oil that funds radical Islam.

4. We've shown no interest in root causes, or developing a plan to address them.

5. We focus overwhelmingly on last year's risks (airlines) and largely ignore ports, mass-transit, nuclear proliferation, etc.

6. The Administration outed CIA WMD resource Valerie Plame, at probable risk to intelligence work years in the making, and some unknown number of agent/sympathizer lives.

7. The Administration outed Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, apparentlywhile he was still a useful Al Qaeda intelligence asset. How much this set back our Al Qaeda work (and the London investigation), remains unclear. But as with Plame, it is crystal clear that this was a mind-bogglingly reckless and damaging move.

I think this diary is largely right on target. These should be among our loudest complaints. I am asking you to make this the basis of a letter to the editor campaign.