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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-27-07 11:17 PM
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Bush Created Terrorist Training Ground
Bush's war in Iraq has become the terror training and recruiting ground he's always claiming he's going to prevent. Terrorists trained in Iraq are now starting to take their fight to other parts of the world based on a report in Monday's NY Times. This happened on Bush's watch in Bush's war:

In an April 17 report written for the United States government, Dennis Pluchinsky, a former senior intelligence analyst at the State Department, said battle-hardened militants from Iraq posed a greater threat to the West than extremists who trained in Afghanistan because Iraq had become a laboratory for urban guerrilla tactics.

“There are some operational parallels between the urban terrorist activity in Iraq and the urban environments in Europe and the United States,” Mr. Pluchinsky wrote. “More relevant terrorist skills are transferable from Iraq to Europe than from Afghanistan to Europe,” he went on, citing the use of safe houses, surveillance, bomb making and mortars.

A top American military official who tracks terrorism in Iraq and the surrounding region, and who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said: “Do I think in the future the jihad will be fueled from the battlefield of Iraq? Yes. More so than the battlefield of Afghanistan.”

Militants in Iraq are turning out instructional videos and electronic newsletters on the Internet that lay out their playbook for a startling array of techniques, from encryption to booby-trapped bombs to surface-to-air missiles, and those manuals are circulating freely in cyberspace.

Heckuva job, Bush. Heckuva legacy. And, for the record, this didn't happen when Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq. This happened when George Bush controlled Iraq.

Bush and Cheney, who claim they're fighting terrorists, never caught Osama Bin Laden who did attack us. Instead, they've been the best recruiters for Bin Laden's cause.

www.Americablog.com/
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-27-07 11:19 PM
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1. Thank you - K&R
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-27-07 11:25 PM
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2. More proof of the Law of Unintended Consequences
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-27-07 11:26 PM
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3. One man, one incompetent man, screws the whole world.
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Edweird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-27-07 11:45 PM
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4. Well, he needed to justify his GWOT.
So he made a lie into the truth.
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