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Donkeys ready to pounce on NIE claim Iraq created more terrorism.

Yeah, the donkeys are all up in arms after the NYT again leaked secrets, of course for the same purely political reasons it has done so every time which is to undermine the Bush Administration and help democrats, and want to point out their claims of why Iraq was such a disaster have now been vindicated because the NIE claims Iraq has served as a recruitment tool for al Qaeda. Funny how these donkeys want us to believe al Qaeda had no connection to Iraq before 9-11 but suddenly after the Iraqi war decided Iraq was critical in their war against the Western world huh? Anyway, Andrew C. McCarthy’s has a brilliant piece over at NRO discussing the reality of the situation. Of particular interest is the fact Osama believed and claimed that Iraq was the reason they wanted to kill Americans back in 1998.

The 1998 fatwa is readily available (find it here, for example) and worth studying. Here is some of why bin Laden said all Americans needed killing (italics are mine):

The Arabian Peninsula has never … been stormed by any forces like the crusader armies now spreading in it like locusts, consuming its riches and destroying its plantations….

[F]or over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.… The best proof of this is the Americans’ continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post[.]…[D]espite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, in excess of 1 million… despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation. So now they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors.…

[T]he Americans’ aims behind these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the Jews’ petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there. The best proof of this is their eagerness to destroy Iraq, the strongest neighboring Arab state[.]… All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims. And … jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.

So, yes, Osama bin Laden claimed in 1998 that President Clinton’s policy was a “continuing aggression against the Iraqi people”; a “devastation” that continued the “horrific massacres” of the 1991 Gulf War. For the world’s leading jihadist, Clinton’s purported “eagerness to destroy Iraq” was the “best proof” of America’s intentions toward the Islamic world. None of it was true, of course, but that didn’t stop him from saying it.

Osama considered Iraq to be a key motivation of why the Jihadi needed to wage war against the West. Would it not make sense that once the West brought the war to Iraq the Jihadi would have a tacitcal need to go fight there? After all, if the West won that conflict their cause was toast. Sounds like we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t to me. So while Iraq has served to attract and recruit Jihidis, it has also focused the Jihads and made them fight in Iraq, a fight they have lost but continue to fight simply because they hope the lunatic left will eventually force us to cut & run and hand them a victory by default, rather than attack us here in the US. The proof that the left has been emboldening the Jihadi is indisputable, and is not given a pass.

It is bad enough when the Muslim charlatans opportunistically use American policies they don’t like for militant propaganda purposes. It is reprehensible when American politicians do it.

The left, just so it can get back into power, has chosen to make America fail in Iraq. Their campaign has been to claim Iraq distracted us from the WoT when it has exactly focused the Jihadi offensive in a place away from us. They want us to believe that if we leave Iraq the terrorists will not come here next. I certainly am not stupid enough to believe they can do anything to prevent that from happening if we are forced to leave Iraq and only a delusional fool would think America will face less danger with us leaving Iraq. The left should never be rewarded for this disastrous policy. In the end we Americans will pay for this crap. It is shameful that one our political parties has staked its rise to power on endangering all our lives.

Update: Check out Jules Crittendon, city editor of the Boston Herald’s brilliant disection of the mendacity of the NYT’s and other liberal MSM outlets in their coverage of the NIE report. An exelent read that shows again how the NYT seems to be completely motivated by its partisan blinders.