There was Bush, last night:
“[W]e have fought the terrorists across the Earth, not for pride, not for power, but because the lives of our citizens are at stake…. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.”
Those words were delivered just hours after we learned this:
As speakers at the GOP convention trumpet Bush administration successes in the war on terrorism, an NBC News analysis of Islamic terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, shows that attacks are on the rise worldwide — dramatically.
Of the roughly 2,929 terrorism-related deaths around the world since the attacks on New York and Washington, the NBC News analysis shows 58 percent of them — 1,709 — have occurred this year.
This comes just a couple of months after a State Deparment report was released that (eventually) explained that 2003 was one of the worst years for significant global terrorist attacks in a generation.
Feel safer?