I hate war for its consequences…
September 27th, 2006 by timelady
…for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
The US government has declassified a report that says:
“…the nation’s most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach.
Bush and his top advisers have said the formerly classified assessment of global terrorism supported their arguments that the world is safer because of the war. But more than three pages of stark judgments warning about the spread of terrorism contrasted with the administration’s glass-half-full declarations.
“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,” the document says. “The confluence of shared purpose and dispersed actors will make it harder to find and undermine jihadist groups.”"
Intel Report Says Iraq A Terrorist ‘Cause Celebre’
The US President said “it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism”
He really thinks anyone can believe that after the report, by his own experts? REALLY?
[...] Finally, FINALLY, the Australian mainstream media is starting to question the justification for our participation in the ‘Coaltion of the Willing’ (Well, *I* wasn’t!). Anyone questioning it before was obviously a leftist ratbag. But recent reports, especially those released by the US Government themselves, have shed light in a deep, murky cesspool. [...]