US report says Iraq fuels terror | ||
The document reportedly blames the conflict for increasing the threat of terrorism and helping fuel Islamic radicalism worldwide. Such a conclusion is at odds with the White House's persistent claim that going to war has made the world safer. The paper has not seen the report, but spoke to people familiar with it. Comprehensive study The BBC's defence correspondent Rob Watson says this is not the first time the US intelligence community has said that the war in Iraq has made the problem of Islamist extremism worse. Indeed it had warned that might happen even before the US-led invasion.
According to the New York Times, which has spoken to officials who have either read it, or been involved in drafting it, the report says the invasion and occupation of Iraq has spawned a new generation of Islamic radicalism that has spread across the globe. It also warns that Islamic militants who have fought in Iraq could foment radicalism and violence when they return to their home countries, much as returning Jihadis did after the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Al-Qaeda threat It reportedly concludes that, while al-Qaeda may have been weakened since the 11 September 2001 attacks, the radical Islamic movement worldwide has strengthened with the formation of new groups and cells who are inspired by Osama Bin Laden, but not under his direct control. The report will make uncomfortable reading at the White House, our correspondent says. In a series of recent speeches, President George W Bush has been portraying the war in Iraq as the central front in the war on terrorism. This report implies while that may be true, that it is a front of America's own making. In the past, Mr Bush has dismissed such reasoning by arguing that Islamic militants had hated the US long before it invaded Iraq, or even Afghanistan for that matter. -------------------------------------------------- So apparently there are a few Yanks who look at facts and don't necessarily care about the great Dictator tries to ram down their throats. So being warned that an invasion of Iraq (which by the way was illegal...why isn't the Prick being tried for war crimes?), would accomplish nothing other than to create enemies, the great Dictator bombed these poor people anyway. Whe all know the reasons why he really did it...oil, greed, insatiable lust for power, stupidity and so on. Does he listen to the rest of the world?...Hell no...he doesn't even listen to his own people. The Yanks might claim some small bit of innocense when it comes to the attack five years ago, but anything that happened from then on was of their own making. Go ahead and bomb my house, kill my family and point guns at me all day (calling it "liberating me"), and guess how much I'm going to hate the asshole who does it. Bush the Dictator of the Millenium has opened a bottomless well of pain and suffering upon the U.S. Never, ever again will any Yank anywhere not go to bed in fear, not wake up in fear, not brush his teeth wondering if it's been poisened not drink from the tap wondering if it'll kill him....all because you allowed the Dictator to continue fucking up the world. THE SMARTEST THING ANY COUNTRY COULD DO NOW (WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE FROM THE START), IS TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM THE PRICK-OF-THE-CENTURY AND ALL THINGS AMERICAN...AND BOYCOTT AND IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON THE ENTIRE SANCTIMONIOUS BUNCH OF BABY KILLERS. But why would he listen to us or even care... He won't even listen to his "own" people who are supposedly supplying him with "intelligence". The dumb fuck is just too full of his own importance. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sofedup | ||
2006-09-24 09:29:59
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