] An anti-American operative in Iraq appealed for help from
] al-Qaida leaders to help spark a sectarian war between
] Shiite and Sunni Muslims in an effort to drive the U.S.
] out of the country, a newspaper reported Monday.

When Howard Dean said he didn't think catching Saddam made the US safer, this is why he was saying it. Our excursion to Iraq has given al-Qaida an opening, and our botched invasion of Afghanistan means that they're still over there and have more sympathy from the average Pakistani because they didn't like us in the first place.

Way to go shrub, you managed to get a secular country into a holy war.