CBS News reports that "as the US military death toll continues to rise, officials have determined that the insurgents are utilizing media reports to outsmart armed forces."

Perhaps that's overstating the problem. I won't denigrate our military by alleging the insurgents our outsmarting our military, but I will admit that it seems as if the insurgents in Iraq and the terrorists across the globe are outsmarting the news media and their comrades on the left. These members of the elite, who suffer from the delusion that they're the smartest people in the room, are not difficult to outsmart by their own admission.

The media template for President George Bush and for conservatives in general is that we're not too swift when it comes to intelligence. However, that assessment may more closely define the left in the Democrat Party and the news media than it does the unwashed masses and their president.

The media template provides as a given that George W. Bush is inarticulate and not very bright. Okay, for the sake of argument I'll give them that. But how do they explain how Bush could: (1) Steal two elections; (2) Con them into voting for the Iraq War that they're against; (3) Get reelected against a supposedly intellectually superior opponent -- well, that was before we found out Kerry was really a dunce in college.

So the Democrats, who can't hold on to an election they claim is theirs and can be easily manipulated to vote for a war they oppose, want us to give them a shot at controlling the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House? Really? A bunch of intellectual geniuses who can be duped by a Texas dunderhead think they're worthy of ruling the country with their neo-Marxist supporters? I don't think so.

The GOP may be wanting in many areas, but they are still far superior than the whining, wash-women who can't even hold on to an election in spite of advantages such as having dead folks and illegal aliens vote and MTV urging kids to vote left because it's cool to be a lefty. Plus the members of the news media who performs lap dances for the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton and others in the Democrat Party made certain to attempt hurting Bush with forged documents and hearsay. Add the whole entertainment media, the magazine industry including even TV Guide and it's a miracle that John Kerry lost to the mentally challenged George Bush. Not only that, but Bush also outsmarted them by not leaving a trail to prove he stole the second election.

So now CBS News reports that the terrorists and insurgents are outsmarting the US troops. Remember, the denizens of America's newsrooms believe they're the brightest bulbs in the stadium. So our dumb troops are being outsmarted by Muslim radicals who still live in the 12th Century?

Not so. Actually, it is the news media who are being outsmarted. They are saving the international terrorist network tons of money. The terrorists do not need an intelligence network to help their operations -- they have the Democrats, some Republicans and the news media working in lockstep to provide them with a well-oiled intelligence asset. Not only that, but unlike the US intelligence community, the terrorists' intelligence network includes commercials so they take a bathroom break, refill their glasses with goat's milk, or simply sit back and watch a Victoria's Secret commercial as they daydream about those 72 virgins all looking like Tyra Banks.

A terrorist with access to Google, Yahoo, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc., makes for a formidable spy since he can find out about strategic and tactical intelligence. He can find out about secret CIA prisons. Or find out about what interrogators can and cannot do to obtain information from captured terrorists. The news media and Democrats provide the terrorists and insurgents with talking points, as well. Examples abound. For instance, Senator Dick Durbin on the floor of the US Senate comparing US soldiers to Hitler's stormtroopers, US detention facilities to gulags and US operations to the killing fields of Cambodia's mass murderer Pol Pot. Another example is Newsweek regurgitating jailhouse gossip that a US soldier flushed a Koran down the toilet in the Gitmo prison. Hell, besides being an intelligence network for the Islamofascists, they're also the recruiting arm of Al-Qaeda.

Senator Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat for the Senate Intelligence Committee, actually admitted he's an intelligence operative for radical Islamic terrorists and state-sponsors of terrorism. By his own admission, prior to the invasion of Iraq, he flew to the Middle East and met with heads of state from Syria, a nation on the US list of sponsors of terrorism, and Saudi Arabia, a nation that should be on that list. Rockefeller told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that he warned the Syrians and Saudis that Bush had made up his mind to attack Iraq. That's right! Senator Rockefeller gave a country that harbors terrorists, Syria, and a nation in which certain members of its royal family financially support terrorists, Saudi Arabia, inside information about what he believed were Bush's war plans.

And we wonder what happened to the weapons of mass destruction? I hope President Bush did mislead Rockefeller on prewar intelligence and postwar intelligence, as well. The Senator is a one man snitch operation paid for by US taxpayers.

And the Democrats are great at providing counterintelligence operations for the terrorists. For example, there were military intelligence reports that indicated they were monitoring Osama bin Laden's cellphone. Well, within an hour the entire world including Osama found out about it thanks to an idiot Senator who went in front of the TV cameras and blabbed about the surveillance to the world. Sprint lost a customer that day with Osama probably switching to AT &T.

There are many other examples: from Geraldo Rivera tracing troop movements in the sand to reporters informing the world that US special forces where closing in on bin Laden or some other terrorist leader.

Here's an interesting pastime, whenever reading a newspaper or watching TV news or listening to newsradio, check out how many times you read or hear something that would be beneficial to you if your were a terrorist. You'll be shocked. Perhaps it's all Americans who are being outsmarted by the international terrorist network. Afterall, aren't we the ones who pay the salaries of their intelligence operatives?

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Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police.