Iraq war has made terrorist threat worse

Jared2, our chickhawks do not read the NYT, so they will never know it is a National Intelligence Agency Report. I fully expect them to post the white house propaganda that has come out recently as spin against this report. Some choice words --

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Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat

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By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: September 24, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Sep 24 2006, 07:04 AM) [snapback]324226[/snapback]</div>

If I may amend your statement as follows:

The amazing thing is that people who can't be bothered to read NON US-ORIGINATED PROPAGANDA still think that their (uninformed) opinions are just as valid as anybody else's.

It's so easy, really, to broaden one's perspectives on the net. For instance one example of many handy sources is: http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news

 

And increasing terrorism serves to increase the level of fear in the country, which is where Bush gets his support. Remember that his support was low until the 9/11 attacks. I do not believe he is behind those attacks. But he has done everything he possibly could to make America hated in the rest of the world, thereby promoting terrorism, thereby increasing the fear, thereby increasing his political support.

When people are governed by fear they are bound to make bad decisions. Fear is Bush's best friend. But it is our own worst enemy.

 

Daniel, are you suggesting that the shrub's policies are structured to increase world hate against the US ?

I personally do not believe that for a minute. I think he is simply following the NeoCon line, that posits that an America that polices the Earth is a safe America, that favors and extends American corporate interests. Put simply: cheap oil requires military expenditure.

In many ways similar to the British Empire of the 19th/20th century.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(EricGo @ Sep 25 2006, 09:49 AM) [snapback]324626[/snapback]</div>

this love fest is a good thing and let us say kumbaya.

just tell me how $3.00/gallon gas is cheap oil?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Sep 25 2006, 12:14 PM) [snapback]324694[/snapback]</div>

No doubt, but the country is stuffed with rightards, politicos run by business, and ignorants afraid of change.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 25 2006, 12:43 PM) [snapback]324708[/snapback]</div>

It's priced below cost.

It's less than what most people pay.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Sep 25 2006, 11:14 AM) [snapback]324694[/snapback]</div>

Actually, it is extremely cost effective... to the neocons' interests... just not to the public which it (supposedly) serves.

The gov't is being run like a corporation, with the "shareholders" interests in mind, not the workers. Kind of like Walmart. Now I don't mind so much that Walmart exercises questionable business practices, after all, their business leaders are paid to make a profit, and I have the choice to shop elsewhere if I don't like it. But I do have a problem when my government behaves this way.

 

I need to make a correction though.... Walmart's leadership is not bankrupting the company. Enron would have been a more appropriate comparison.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Sep 28 2006, 10:11 AM) [snapback]325040[/snapback]</div>

Yes. Its exactly like when they say the Kyoto agreement is bad for the economy. Its bad for oil companies and car makers. Individuals benefit due to new technologies that benefit the market. The alternative energy economy would have been the new internet boom if Bush had not been president.

 

To get back to the OP topic/thread, just YESTERDAY the UN issued a report supporting the partially released US study finding also that the Iraq war has hardened and motovated an increase in terrorists. See more here:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1434512006