ALERT! Iraq Invasion and Occupation Has Led to Rise in Terrorist Attacks? What Else is New?

Question

WASHINGTON: Sept, 23 ...reporting on an " intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war has "increased the terrorist threat," also saying that we are faced with "new generation of Islamic radicalism & that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks."
NEW YORK: 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 & that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks"
So, we are engaged in a never-ending war whether we leave Iraq or not. And. we're to be faced with terrorists attacks for a long time to come.
Except, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this OLD New NEWS though does it? Because the average thinking US citizen, had figured this one out a long long time ago.
It's going to take decades, if not centuries to get oout of this one.
A modern day war. Stone Age tactics.

This is for JDMC..
ah, are you telling me that ALL U.S. newspapers are run by liberals? and aren't most breaking news type stories from anonymous sources?
So please; we all get news from any number of sources, and nothing is "clasified" anymore anyway. And by the reading of the earlier posts, we ALL know that the Iraq invasion and occupation has led to a rise in terrorist attacks. Its no secret unless you have your head in the sand. Do you really ascribe to the notion that terrorists don't and can't find out about what's going on in the U.S. unless they see it in some U.S. newspapers?
The U.S. so-called 'liberal" press has nothing to do with the release of so-called 'classified' material. In fact it seems to me that that our U.S. newspapers are extremely 'late' regarding nearly all news stories, probably because other foreign newspapers cover the same issues as are covered here, only they do so much earlier than the U.S. press.

Answer 1

Well, what do you expect? We go and invade a country that has nothing to do with terrorism at all, we dismantle and destroy its government (then put in its place a weak, and ineffective one), and have destroyed its economy and have left millions without jobs or homes.

Answer 2

Why did you leave out the part, "The official, confirming accounts first published in Sunday's New York Times and Washington Post, spoke on condition of anonymity because the report is classified."

Our great liberal American newspapers publishing more classified reports to help the enemy, and from the usual "anonymous" source! Kill more innocents, terrrorists, it's working!

P.S. I'm glad your so pleased with this 'news'.

Answer 3

Oh yes it is easy to berate the decision to invade Iraq. Who knows what the situation would be now without it. Maybe best now to reach the decision it was wrong. One of the great advantages of democracies is that leaders are expendable and we can try to improve the situation by adopting a 'new broom' approach. There are some problems that inevitably get worse before they get better and this may well be one of them.

Answer 4

Like it figured to be so from the start. Can we and the world survive another manipulative GOP administration, if Bush, himself, doesn't manage to manufacture an Apocalypse before he leaves office?

Answer 5

Yea,like no one saw that coming!! Oh and buy the way Pres. Bush,the number of U.S. troops killed now equals the amount of people killed the 9/11 attacks. Congrats. can they come home now?

Answer 6

why dont deport all arabs and muslims fanatics from US instead of hardworking mexicans? and poison guantanamo prisoners, ull need the extra space for new inmates when the fanatics are laying babies like pigs, they will be happy to send young easy to be manipulated suicide bombers to the states!

learn from the chinese, execute thy prisoners and harvest organes for the worthy, ull have peace like china