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[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] Remembering Iraq - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest: Second, I never bought the argument that the American presence in Iraq was on balance beneficial to Al Qaeda and the terrorists.  Certainly the surge in anti-Americanism as a result of the war itself and even more of the struggles and blunders of the occupation (like the Abu Ghraib scandal) did motivate a new wave of sympathy for the terrorists.  But several factors offset that advantage.  The removal of US troops from Saudi Arabia (once they were no longer needed as part of the containment strategy) helped stabilize the kingdom and frustrated Osama bin Laden’s fondest hope of establishing his brand of Islam in the Islamic Holy Land.  The terrorists in Iraq were in a strategic dead end.  The only way they could fight was to murder Arab civilians in terrorist attacks; these attacks, broadcast far and wide through the Islamic world, discredited both the terror groups responsible and the ideology that led to them.  Bombs going off in marketplaces filled with Arab Muslim women and children does not look like a holy war.  Finally, the defeat of the terrorists in Iraq has been a heavy blow.  Terrorists need to win to gain recruits.  To lose a war because they have lost the support of the Muslim population has been deeply demoralizing (and well deserved) for the terror movement.

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[Staten Island Featured Entries - Breaking News] Double suicide bombings kill 37 on Moscow subway | - SILive.com: Iraq could have been handled differently from the start without a full fledge war and was an error in judgement (I am being nice) by the Bush administration but guess it seemed like a good idea at the time based on the "information" that there were weapons of mass destruction which was never proven. Obama has no done anything yet to prove that he is "soft on terrorism"....

[Raw Story] GOP congressmen: Everyone agrees Iraq war a 'horrible mistake ...: So now they say Whoops --ti was sure a mistake, like an intellignece failure mistake that was used to cover over Cheney's deliberatie lies. Republican, expecially Rovian republicans wouldn't "recognize the truth" unless by saying so they could gain a vote or two in the sort run.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » On the Other Hand, You Could Try to ...: Bush was strong and diplomatic enough to keep Britain in its proper role as America's poodle Ally. Now that Obama's in office, they're resenting that role and questioning the rightness of the Iraq war.

[Survive This Depression] Survive This Depression » Blog Archive » Moscow bombings: Terror ...: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah all celebrated when al Qaeda attacked both New York and Washington in the 9/11 terror attacks. Islamic groups supported by Iran, Syria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have also carried out suicide bombings and terror attacks in London, Paris, Madrid, Iraq, India, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Moscow."

[Politics Daily] Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth? -- Politics Daily: 26, 2002, Bush insisted that "the Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons." Yet a September 2002 report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which was widely distributed to government policymakers, said, "There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing or stockpiling chemical weapons, or where Iraq has -- or will -- establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities."

[Dirk Bradshaw Blog] Conspiracy Theorists: Do you think there is credibility to Jessie ...: I think Johnson had Kennedy killed. The government doesn't need a secondary government to scare people into submission they do that with their propaganda pretty .

[Its My Forum] Words, Words, Words: Rhetoric in the War on Terror | Its My Forum: In his historic speech of 20th September 2001, President Bush explained why the United States is hated: “They hate our freedoms_ our freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other”¦ the terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life”¦ Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of freedom depends on us.”

[Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum] Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum » Blog Archive » Moscow ...: 20, 1979, and their leader, Juhayman al Uteybi, represented a crucial link in an unbroken chain of radical Islamic violence that runs from the fundamentalist warriors who helped Abdul Aziz ibn Saud take over the Arabian peninsula and create Saudi Arabia early in the 20th century, through the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the group that assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat after he made peace with Israel, to the Taliban in Afghanistan and, finally, to al-Qaeda and today’s terrorists. None was an isolated phenomenon;

[DocArzt's LOST Blog] Self as Savior: A Theory DocArzt's LOST Blog: Even though I was very anti-George Bush, I’d never dare call him sociopathic for leading us into the Iraq War, despite the fact that his values and intentions have led to the loss of thousands of lives.

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Mad About Obamacare? Blame Bush: Given that Bush's corrupt Financial Czar Henry Paulson already sold us out for globalist Goldman Sachs inside trading profits, Bush demonized patriotic MinuteMen as "vigilantes" for volunteering to relay information to Border Security, Bush worked for illegal alien amnesty rather than enforcing the law as his duty demanded, Bush enforced the unguarded open border with NAFTA for international profits while hurting local private enterprise that Bush was so fond of embracing. Tim Geithner is just more of the same saboteur of the Constitutional Governance.

[Wizbang] Priorities: Obama In Afghanistan (Wizbang): Air Force One arrived in the predawn darkness, five-and-a-half hours after leaving Iraq, and the details of the Afghanistan trip were shrouded in even greater secrecy than before the first stop, in Baghdad.[...]

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