AL QAEDA IN IRAQ

How often has President Bush warned of a strong al Qaeda presence in Iraq - to derisory hoots from such critics as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

For the Democrats, the War on Terror should be waged exclusively outside Iraq's borders. What's happening in Baghdad and Anbar province, they maintain, is nothing more than a Sunni-Shiite civil war - one from which America must cut and run.

Yet then an emboldened al Qaeda would bring the war to America. It's already happened once; no one knows what form the inevitable new attack would take.

Or where it would come. New York, again? L.A.? Chicago? San Francisco?
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