It depends on what you mean by "safe"

President Bush has long insisted that invading Afghanistan and Iraq made us all safer from terrorism. However, a National Ingelligence Estimate described in today's New York Times that was completed last April by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies flatly contradicts that claim, finding that "the war in Iraq, rather than stemming the growth of terrorism, had helped fuel its spread across the globe." This assessment echoes one delived by the National Intelligence Council reported by the Washington Post in January 2005.

Iraq provides terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills," said David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats. "There is even, under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries."

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines safe as "secure from threat of danger, harm, or loss." Perhaps President Bush mistakenly used his Orwellian Doublespeak Dictionary when he looked up his definition of "safe."