CBS's 60 minutes

was apparently fairly good, for once. I've avoid the show and network news in general for years, for obvious reasons, but apparently this one was worth watching.

Can you spell Impeachment?

Bush attacked on terror record
A former White House security expert accuses President Bush of doing a "terrible job" of tackling terrorism. [BBC News]

Richard Clarke said Mr Bush ignored warnings of the threat from al-Qaeda in the run-up to 9/11.

He said the US president later tried to show links between al-Qaeda and Iraq, despite being told none existed.

Mr Clarke, who has served under four US administrations, told CBS he found it "outrageous" Mr Bush was running for a second term on his record on terrorism.

He said: "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it.

"He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."

He also told the US broadcaster the day after the September 11 attacks, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld called for retaliatory strikes on Iraq, even though al-Qaeda was based in Afghanistan.

He said he was so taken aback by the comments, he initially thought Mr Rumsfeld was joking.

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