By Anthony Wade
The news came out two weeks ago. The Bush White House got busted when they decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered such data. After five years of blustering and posturing from the cowboy in the Oval Office, he has managed to make the terrorism problem worse than it has ever been, in 19 years. Not exactly the press Bush was looking for.
How bad was 2004? The National Counterterrorism Center reported to the State Department that there were 625 "significant" terrorist attacks in 2004. In 2003, there was only 175 such incidents. These are the numbers that defy the Bush mantra of
