Once again, loose and imprecise language dooms this entrie "story" (posted originally by Drudge, of course) as well as the majority of posts in this thread.
The criticism of Bush was that he was using terrorism as an excuse to launch and perpetuate a war with a country not nearly as related ot terrorism against the US as was being claimed at the time. The argument was that, in doing so, he gave the actual terrorists more to work with in terms of brewing hate against the US.
The story above is given the - extremely misleading -headline " White House says critics helping Al-qaeda."
But if you read the quote, he is saying that whipping people up into a frenzy by bashing the Obama administration's handling of the war on terror plays into the hands of the terrorists and their goal of causing our citizens to worry all the time, even though chances of the citizen being involved in an attack are extremely remote.
There is nothing wrong with telling the American people not to stop living their lives because of this. That is what is meant by fear-mongering.
Now, you might disagree with that. And that's fine. You might want alarms going off constantly. Okay, I get that. But the rights continuous deliberate misstatement of what has been said by the WH and its officials so as to spin up contrived outrage is just getting so old. They need to find a new ploy.
