Snow: Iraq Withdrawal Would Bring Terrorists ‘To A Shopping Mall Near You’

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/12/snow-terrorists-shopping/

Snow: Iraq Withdrawal Would Bring Terrorists ‘To A Shopping Mall Near You’

Today on Fox News, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow defended the President’s Initial Benchmark Assessment Report, which argues that the administration is making “progress” in Iraq.

Snow attacked proposals to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, claiming:

To walk out of Iraq right now would plant a seed that ultimately would lead to destabilization there, hundreds of thousands of deaths, loss of our influence in the region, would create instability throughout the Middle East throughout East Asia, throughout Europe. And sooner or later it would come to our shores, to a shopping mall near you.

Watch it at link~

But this doomsday scenario is already playing out in Iraq, worsened by the President’s misguided policies:

– Since Bush announced his surge in January, violence has skyrocketed. Close to 600 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have died since January. Military assessments suggest that “the U.S. military’s plan to secure Baghdad against a rising insurgency is falling far short of its goal.” A recent bombing killed over 150 in Baghdad, “one of the deadliest single bombings, if not the deadliest, since the 2003 invasion.”

– The war in Iraq has already destabilized the Middle East and exported terrorism throughout the world. “The rate of fatal terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups, and the number of people killed in those attacks, increased dramatically after the invasion of Iraq. Globally there was a 607 percent rise in the average yearly incidence of attacks.”

– The U.S. has already “lost influence” in the region. In a poll of 18 countries, the percentage of “saying that the United States is having a mainly positive influence in the world” dropped 11 points from two years ago, down to just 29 percent. Just 17 percent believe the United States is a stabilizing force in the Middle East.

Furthermore, national security experts recently called the possibility of terrorists following us home after leaving Iraq “remote at best.” Redeploying U.S. forces out of Iraq as quickly as possible would, in fact, enable the United States to better counter the global effects of Bush’s failed strategy.

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Problem with calling wolf so much is that if the wolf finally shows up, no one will believe it. Also, eventually, someone will do something bad and then they will say "see! we told you!" and take away more rights, etc.

Of course they will try to disregard the fact that things have gotten worse due to their own actions because after all, why do you hate amerika?

I thought 'leaders' were supposed to make their people feel safe and not to constantly try to scare the living shit out of them.

I don't think this nation has war fatigue, it's fucking got bu$h* fatigue.

We're already being told Al Queda is gathering strength in the US even as we speak. So it seems fighting them in Iraq has done nothing. They're already coming to a mall near you. Or are they having trouble keeping up with the fear campaigns and starting to contradict each other?

that will get them off the Sunday talk shows wont it?

The goal of his talk is to terrorize us. Hell, Bin Laden at least didn't have the gaul to terrorize his own country-folk!

What is this mall crap?

Bush invaded Iraq instead of concentrating on the terrorists that attacked us. This multiplied the hatred towards the USA worldwide and at the same time weakened our capability to fight the real war on terror.

Now, according to estimates, al queda is as strong as it was before 9/11. Iraq has become a recruiting tool for Al Queda.

But we are supposed to worry about our shopping malls if we don't support his Iraq lack-of-policy?

Seems to me if you can't make an arguement on its own merits without having to resort to terrorism tactics, you had better shut the f*** up!

We don't need no stinkin' shopping malls.

All you need is a credit card, internet connection, and a computer.