White House admits Iraq fuels extremism

[Barrett808]

GREENWICH, Connecticut (AFP) - The White House acknowledged Monday that Iraq was among several factors that "fuel the spread of jihadism," but said that winning the war would dishearten potential terrorists.

Spokesman Tony Snow sought to challenge news reports on Sunday about the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq and terrorism, which represents the comprehensive consensus findings of the 16 US intelligence agencies.

"It assesses that a variety of factors, in addition to Iraq, fuel the spread of jihadism, including longstanding social grievances, slowness of the pace of reform, and the use of the Internet," he told reporters.

"And it also notes that should jihadists be perceived to have failed in Iraq, fewer will be inspired to carry on the fight," the spokesman said as US President George W. Bush traveled here for a political fundraiser.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060925/pl_afp/usattacksiraq

[rodeodance]

1. now that is my kind of headline

[Kagemusha]

6. I posted on another thread complaining about a far worse headline

one contradicted by the WH's own tepid claims.

[msongs]

2. bush already won the war - mission accomplished -time to bring em home

saddam overthrown, democratic elections held, time to bring em home

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Human Torch]

3. But did Tony "Semi-Colon" Snow admit that Freedom Is On The March?

...because even though innocent Iraqis are still being slaughtered like pigs in a stockyard, I just want to make sure that Freedom is still On The March.

Did he say that? Did he? Did he?

:grr:

[susanna]

10. Isn't that Tony "Comma" Snow? n/t

[sofa king]

4. But we're fighting the extremists we create over there, rather than here.

It's better to create our enemies abroad and fight them there than not to create enemies and have them not fight us here. Or, uh, something.

[JoFerret]

5. Terror is a tactic and cannot be defeated by war

You can't win the war on terror by creating terror. And clearly this group can't do anything right in Iraq except make things devastatingly worse.

[VegasWolf]

7. What else could the fucking liars say when confronted with the truth!! nt

[Canuckistanian]

8. What? White House admits WHAT?

Excuse me, but the new reports "contain nothing that the president hasn't said."???

What planet does Snow live on? And more importantly, what color is the sky in his world?

[AlCzervik]

9. Snow has managed the difficult task of talking out of his mouth and ass

at the same time. i'll give him a 8 on the difficulty scale but a 0 for effectiveness.

[shadowknows69]

11. I feel much better

Thank God those thousands of new terrorists we're creating by being there are too disheartened to create any terror. TINO's