So please tell all these people to stop saying it has!
Senior U.S. officials confirmed Monday that a classified intelligence report does conclude that the Iraq war has worsened the terror threathttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15004211 /
Terrorism threat worse in wake of Iraq warhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1543486.htmIraq War Blamed for Increased Terrorist Threathttp://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11107Iraq War Increased Terror Threat: Global PollMost people in 33 out of 35 countries worldwide believe that the US-led invasion of Iraq has increased the threat of terrorism,
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1805227.php Iraq war could create a new bin Ladenhttp://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060118-050321-6448rUS Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorismhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.htmlUnited States: Losing the War on Terrorhttp://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/aprilharder.htmEvidence that the US May Be Losing the Global War on Terror http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1501 US: Three Years On, War on Terrorism Looks Like a Loser http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25437 ”We have a stronger jihadi presence in Iraq today than in March 2003,” noted Roger Cressey, the former director for Transnational Threats in Bush's National Security Council at a briefing at the libertarian Cato Institute earlier this week.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0911-01.htm The 'War on Terrorism': Winning or Losing? Losing.http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefings/winningorlosing.htmGlobal terror attacks triplehttp://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0428/dailyUpdate.html Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the risehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5889435%20 /
US Losing the War on Terror in Iraq; The invasion of Iraq has increased, not decreased, the threat of terrorist attackhttp://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2629.htmlOccupation Made World Less Safe, Pro-War Institute Says http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/0526iissreport.htmIraq Invasion Hurt War on Terrorhttp://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-10.htm Musharraf: World more dangerous because of Iraq Warhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/25/03544/7945 Blix Says Iraq War May Have Worsened Terror Threathttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0319-02.htm Poll: Aussies, Brits, Italians say Iraq war increased terrorismhttp://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/5027215.html Iraq intervention increased threat of terrorism ("intervention"??? What exactly was being "intervened"???)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0409/S00127.htm UK Government; Iraq war 'increased terror threat' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3451239.stm Iraq war has swollen ranks of al Qaedahttp://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1063717,00.htmlUS State Department Corrects Report to Show Rise in Terrorismhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264512 /
Iraq has become a terrorist spawning ground, CIA admitshttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?Iraq Conflict Feeds International Terror Threathttp://www.skyhen.org/Focus/iraqcoverage/cia_iraq_conflict_feeds_international_terror_threat.php62 percent of Americans thought that the threat of terror would increase if the U.S. takes military action against Iraq.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/07/opinion/meyer/main539846.shtmlPresident GHW Bush, 1998;"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
Brent Scowcroft, one of the Republican Party’s most respected foreign policy advisors, and national security adviser under President Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush:
Don't Attack Saddam It would undermine our antiterror efforts. "Our pre-eminent security priority--underscored repeatedly by the president--is the war on terrorism. An attack on Iraq at this time would seriously jeopardize, if not destroy, the global counterterrorist campaign we have undertaken."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133James Webb, former Sec. of Navy under Ronald Reagan, Decorated Marine Veteran: "Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? …In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends.
In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets…. Nations such as China can only view the prospect of an American military consumed for the next generation by the turmoil of the Middle East as a glorious windfall."
http://www.sftt.org/article09302002a.html Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former Head of Central Command for U.S.: "It's pretty interesting that all the generals see it the same way, and all the others who have never fired a shot, and are hot to go to war, see it another…
We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region that we will rue the day we ever started." Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
"I'm not sure which planet they live on"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni Republican Dissent on Iraq
Full page ad in Wall Street Journal by major GOP contributors: "Mr. President, …The candidate we supported in 2000 promised a more humble nation in our dealings with the world. We gave him our votes and our campaign contributions. That candidate was you.
We feel betrayed. We want our money back. We want our country back…. A Billion Bitter enemies will rise out of this war." - Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2003
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001444.html General William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency:"Right now, the course we're on,
we're achieving Bin Laden's ends…. I've never seen it so bad between the office of the secretary of defense and the military. There's a significant majority believing this is a disaster.
The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaeda. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml Col. Mike Turner (ret), Schwarzkopf's personal briefing officer during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm:“The uniformed Joint Staff in the Pentagon strongly opposed this plan early on...The uniformed Joint Staff was overridden, yet in so many horrifying ways this operation resembles Somalia, not Desert Storm...Perhaps we can pull this off, but here's a far worse scenario that's at least as likely...Photos of American soldiers amid landscapes of Iraqi civilian bodies blanket the world press which aligns unanimously against the US. The US is condemned by NATO and the UN...The war ends within a few weeks, but the crisis deepens...”
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/transcripts/2003/mar/030311.turner.html"We have a stronger jihadi presence in Iraq today than in March 2003,” noted Roger Cressey, the former director for Transnational Threats in Bush's National Security Council at a briefing at the libertarian Cato Institute earlier this week.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0911-01.htm SO STOP SAYING THAT, WORLD!!!
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