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Um, Mr. President, we know Al Qaeda is a threat, that's why we're so upset that you've given them safe harbor in Pakistan and allowed a foreign government to sign a peace treaty with them. It's not that we're not concerned about the handful (less than 1%) (responsible for less than 15% of the attacks) of foreign fighters in Iraq, it's just that you spend so much time touting how the Iraqis themselves have turned on Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia that we can't take you seriously when you suggest that they'd take over the country if we leave. In fact they'd be in just as big a quagmire as we're in now, caught in the middle of the civil war where they're an enemy to everyone.

Of course, this might just be your way of bringing the wingnuts back into the fold.

Or you're just going back to the playbook. Muttering Al Qaeda and Iraq in the same sentence seemed to work well in 2002, why not in 2007?