"Can't you be honest at least once in your life and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq under the pretext of the presence of nuclear weapons there and under the pretext of al Qaeda's connections with Saddam Hussein, following which evidence proved that you intentionally lied and misled?"

The search for Bin Laden continues amid reports that Saudi intelligence received information that the terrorist leader has died of disease in Pakistan.

Bin Laden is being tracked by people and through electronic means, and his capture is an important element of the war on terrorism, President Bush said last week.

“Osama Bin Laden is in hiding, and we're still spending a lot of time trying to find him,” Bush said. “But the key thing that the American people have got to know is that security comes not only with getting him, which I'm convinced we will, but also doing other things to protect [from] him.”

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf risks a collapse of his regime when he returns to Islamabad after his high-profile visit to the White House. Musharraf faces an Al Qaida-aligned intelligence and military that has decided to bolster Osama Bin Laden during the president's tour of the United States and other allies.

Western intelligence sources said Musharraf has already accepted the dictates of the jihad clique in Islamabad. They said the president was forced to accept a government decision to cede authority over North Waziristan, the mountainous tribal region along the Afghan border, to Al Qaida and Taliban.

The Pakistani decision marked Musharraf's surrender to the group of military officers that controls the nation's army and intelligence community.

Musharraf also looked on helplessly as Pakistan released more than 150 Al Qaida-aligned prisoners in a decision led by the Inter-Services Intelligence.

"It is impossible to exaggerate the threat to Musharraf's regime," an intelligence source said. "He seems powerless to stop his Islamic rivals." The source said Islamabad has abandoned formal control over the entire region of Waziristan. Earlier, the regime withdrew completely from South Waziristan and the Taliban immediately took over.

U.S. officials acknowledge that the problem of rooting out the Taliban insurgency is now seen to be far more time consuming, expensive and complex than was originally envisioned. Even well-meaning tribal leaders are not likely to cooperate with an anti-insurgency drive that leaves their villages vulnerable to Taliban reprisals and infiltration.

Today's Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.

Democrats (96) in Congress condemn current efforts to intercept terrorist phone calls, to mine data to ferret out future attacks against us, and to trace the movement of terrorist money through banks. All the while they want special treatment for enemy prisoners captured on the battlefield. This helps the enemy and undermines our troops in the field.

We're in a war. Something always goes wrong in a war, and our military leaders have made mistakes in Iraq. But quitting and leaving would amount to defeat for the U.S. in the global war on terrorism and create chaos. Quitters never win.

Here's the problem: America needs two strong, sound political parties. As far as domestic policy is concerned, it really doesn't make much difference if Democrats or Republicans are in power. Ours is a free, entrepreneurial society where anyone can do anything he or she wants if they have a positive attitude and the desire to work, learn and achieve. Ambitious people come from all over the world to take advantage of this tremendous opportunity. This is one reason our economy is so resilient, continually bouncing back from periodic setbacks, driven by new inventions and achievements.

However, (97) when it comes to which party has proved more capable in acting to defend and protect Americans from foreign enemies, there is only one choice. From Johnson to Carter to Clinton, virtually all the defense policies and decisions made by Democratic administrations have been unsuccessful. And in many cases, they have unintentionally but materially increased the danger to our national security and the safety of all Americans.

President Bush yesterday said Democrats have ditched the tradition of the great war-fighting presidents of the 20th century to become "the party of cut and run," and accused them of using leaked excerpts of a recent intelligence estimate to mislead voters before midterm elections.

 
In his most politically biting speech yet in this campaign, Mr. Bush slammed his political opponents for not having an Iraq policy, then warned against embracing the conclusions of some top members of their party who say Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror.

 
"Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on American homeland in our history, the Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction, and endless second-guessing," Mr. Bush said while campaigning for Alabama Gov. Bob Riley in Birmingham. "The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run."