As the election grows closer the disconnection between Democrat rhetoric and factual reality has grown wider than the gulf between Bill Clinton's intern policy and NOW's governing statement of purpose. The NIE says that Bush policy has crushed Al Qaeda leadership and splintered the far more powerful group into smaller, albeit more covert, but still less lethal subparts. If you don't like this result would you be happier with Al Qaeda leadership intact and in control of Afghanistan while obtaining support from Libya. How could any thinking person prefer the latter?