By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor

What is the intelligence community’s latest solution to fighting international terrorism?

Posting an “Atom Bomb for dummies” manual on the Internet.

According to the New York Times article “U.S. Web site is said to reveal Nuclear Primer,” a government Web site, initially created to archive Iraqi documents captured during the Iraq war, was yanked from the World Wide Web by the Bush administration for containing a document with detailed instructions on how to build an atom bomb.

The documents, which date back to before the 1991 Persian Gulf War, were targeted as a danger by weapons experts and led to the complete closure of the Web sites’ archive.

The International Atomic Energy Agency feared the documents could aid countries in Bush’s “Axis of Evil”, like Iran, in developing nuclear weapons in the near future.

So where does the blame for this atomic- sized mis-post deserve to be placed?

Congressional Republicans.

The Web site was created last March after the Bush administration buckled under pressure from the “Representatives in Red” and their desire to use the Internet to build a resume’ supporting the increasingly unpopular Iraq War. They were desperately searching for a means of justification for the Middle East conundrum during an election year.

And why wouldn’t they?

Despite a recent rise in economic growth and a newly adopted foreign policy where finding diplomatic solutions is the new answer to the Iran and North Korea problems, the party in power’s biggest criticism from the media and American citizens this election year has been the Iraq War.

But the Republicans would-be Trojan Horse found them knee deep in manure.

The digital misstep only hurt their chances of earning the country’s approval.

How do you expect the country to believe you are making progress in “the War on Terror” when you’re aiding the enemy?

You can’t.

Although I admit that if I were in the Republican’s messy shoes right now, I would give anything for a realistic reason to justify the war in Iraq, but giving the enemy the keys to the kingdom is not the answer they were looking for.

Rather than post dangerous documents, the intelligence community would do better to start a youtube.com account and post bloopers from president Bush’s speeches while in office.

I’ll take Bush bloopers over an atom bomb from Iran any day of the week.