Reagan's Counterterrorism Expert Cribs From My Blog I'm confused...Every time I espouse what I assume is 'the liberal perspective', I find that one of the nation's premier conservative voices echoes my sentiments. Could I actually be a conservative, or am I driving the debate? Clarke harshly criticizes Bush personally in his book, saying his decision to invade Iraq generated broad anti-American sentiment among Arabs. He recounts that Bush asked him directly almost immediately after the Sept. 11 terror attacks to find whether Iraq was involved in the suicide hijackings. "Nothing America could have done would have provided al-Qaida and its new generation of cloned groups a better recruitment device than our unprovoked invasion of an oil-rich Arab country," Clarke wrote. Clarke added: "One shudders to think what additional errors (Bush) will make in the next four years to strengthen the al-Qaida follow-ons: attacking Syria or Iran, undermining the Saudi regime without a plan for a successor state?" Read the Whole Article