http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/105

Oh Fa Chrissake...

So here's the Bush administration talking point to defend the Iraq war

by WilliamPitt


The NIE says Iraq is manufacturing terrorists and making the world
less safe.

The talking point that just failed because of the NIE is the one
you've heard a million times:

better to have them all in one place than spread out, "over there"
instead of "over here."

So much for that.

Iraq is the training ground, and the extremism fueling and funding
that training has an ever-swelling cadre of fighters to call on.

There are more than two million Iraqi refugees in Syria, for starters,
people who have fled the war.

Some of them might be kinda angry, I think, and Syria has no love for
us.

Like effective soldiers, a lot of the people bombing and shooting our
troops know the ground far better than we do, because they were born
there.

The new talking point, therefore, is, "Yeah, but we've been at war
with Islamojihadofascistoists since 1979. This isn't new."

Pretty clever, if you think about it.

1979 was the year of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

While there is truth to the fact that the 70s saw the first real
eruption of this kind of terrorism - Munich being the first really
astonishing attack and Iran being a huge instigator with the hostages
- this new talking point is also an amazingly facile sidestep.

Nothing in the last 50 years has been as destabilizing to the Midest
and the world than this occupation of Iraq.

Anyone who thinks 9/11 was a good thing is rejoicing, because they
have a recruitment poster for the ages.

The world less safe because of the war over there - ask London - and
we are less safe specifically because our military is falling apart.

But that's the talking point.

Listen for it.

James Woolsey rolled it out tonight.

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Ya really hafta be stupid to buy into this right wing *****, but,
there *are* some out there.......................

Harry