As reported here, Top Democrats, citing a leaked National Intelligence Estimate that said the 42-month military occupation in Iraq has stoked Islamic terrorism, urged President Bush on Monday to change U.S. policy there.
Of course, they conveniently leave out the fact that the NIE also states that abandoning Iraq by withdrawing our troops now would be an unmitigated disaster, not only for Iraq, but for the overall war on terror. Cherry picking at its' finest, eh?
The New York Times reported Sunday that the National Intelligence Estimate prepared by the nation's 16 intelligence agencies last April concluded that U.S. operations in Iraq were aggravating the threat of terrorism.
Oh, please. As if anyone at the NY Times is an expert on how to fight terrorism. OBL declared war on the US, and whether we are in Iraq or not, or in Afghanistan or not, matters little to him. Let's say your child is experiencing problems with a bully at school. Do you think that by ignoring the problem, the bullying will stop? That would be a 'No, it won't.' situation. Ignoring the problem will only allow it to escalate. So too, ignoring the terrorists only escalates their abilities to commit further acts of terrorism, and fighting the terrorists in Iraq (while it is a tragedy that the Iraqi people must endure this) is far better than having to fight them in, say, the offices of the New York Times.
The report, the first governmentwide assessment of global terrorism since the Iraq war began in 2003, concluded that U.S. military operations were handing Islamic extremists a propaganda bonanza, helping recruit a new generation of terrorists and boosting the overall threat of terrorist attacks.
I say that the erroneous reporting, and flat out lies by the MSM is what is handing the Islamofascists a "propaganda bonanza", not our military operations in Iraq. What our military in Iraq is doing, is sending hundreds of Islamofascist terrorists to speak to Allah.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate Democratic leader, said the NIE showed that the war in Iraq was "doing more harm than good" in the U.S. campaign against terrorism. "After all this sacrifice, the intelligence community reports that this war has made us less safe."
Reid added in a later statement that the White House had "lost all credibility on matters of national security" because the U.S. intelligence community had "confirmed that America is losing the war on terror because of Bush failures in Iraq."
How is the war in Iraq "doing more harm than good"? How has this war made us less safe? Those questions are unanswerable by Sen. Reid, et al., as they are only talking points of those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome, who have cherry picked portions of the declassified parts of the latest NIE, to suit their political agenda.
Sen. Robert Dorgan, D-N.D., said U.S. operations in Iraq had contributed to "a substantial increase in terrorism."
Sen. Dorgan is delusional. Terrorist activity has increased because they want to try to kill more Americans and are finding Iraq and Afghanistan a more convenient place to try to do that, rather than North Dakota or Nevada.
Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y. also chimed in, urging the President to fully declassify the rest of the NIE, and release it to the public, which is mere foolish demagoguery on her part, in that, those portions that the Dems are conveniently disregarding would be more available to the public who would see the Dems efforts for what they are - simple minded Bush bashing. It is also foolish on her part to open her mouth to criticize President Bush's efforts in the war on terror after what her husband failed to do during their eight years in the White House.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. The Dems attempts to make themselves appear "tough on terrorism" are belied by their dismal past record in that regard.
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