During Bush's press conference today with Hamid Karzai, a reporter asked President Bush about the recently leaked national intelligence assessment and how it shows that going into Iraq was a mistake.  Bush responded saying it was naive to think that going into Iraq has made terrorism worse. 

''Some people have guessed what's in the report and concluded that going into Iraq was a mistake. I strongly disagree,'' Bush said.

What was more profound was when Bush gave Karzai a chance to respond.

KARZAI: Ma'am, before I go to the remarks by my brother, President Musharraf, terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11. The president mentioned some examples of it.

These extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around for years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children, uprooting vineyards with vine trees, grapes hanging on them, forcing populations to poverty and misery.

They came to America on September 11, but they were attacking you before September 11 in other parts of the world.

We are a witness in Afghanistan as to what they are and how they can hurt. You are a witness in New York.

Do you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what it will be for a man or a woman to jump off that high?

Who did that? And where are they now? And how do we fight them, how do we get rid of them, other than going after them? Should we wait for them to come and kill us again?

That's why we need more action around the world, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to get them defeated. Extremism, their allies, terrorists and the likes of them.
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It amazes me how the media will insult our president by calling him a liar and an idiot even when leaders from other countries come over here and praise Bush and his actions and how they need American troops in their countries to help defeat terrorists.