2008 Woodie Awards
Intel report says Iraq is what terrorists wanted
Myrick, Jael
Issue date: 9/28/06 Section: Points Of View
- Page 1 of 1
National intelligence analysis that has been recently released shows that U.S. involvement in Iraq is a "cause célèbre" for terrorists. In other words, not only is it not keeping America safe, it is exactly what our real enemies want.
This is just more evidence for how horrible this war is for the American people. In fact, experts on the subject of terrorism believe that this war in Iraq is what Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cohorts had hoped they would get in Afghanistan.
The plan was simple. Al Qaeda attacked America on Sept. 11 to provoke a military strike in Afghanistan, which they believed would have been similar to the Soviet occupation of the same country back in the 1980s. The hope was that this occupation would lead to the demise of the American superpower as it did the USSR.
Unfortunately for Bin Laden, America's military force was strong enough to take out the Taliban, and bring freedom to the Afghan people.
Unfortunately for us, George W. Bush and his cabinet are greedy, oil-hungry, money-grubbing liars who used the post 9/11 patriotism and War on Terror as an excuse to trick America into going to war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
Just as they had planned on doing in the Project for a New American Century, Bush and his gang of oil-hungry deceivers took American troops into a country we had no business messing with: Iraq.
This led to what military officials call a quagmire. U.S. troops found themselves in the middle of a civil war. Pictures of American tanks on sacred Muslim territory stayed on the televisions of the Islamic world.
A country once considered as the world's moral leader has became hated and despised around the world. Al Qaeda's recruitment efforts went through the roof.
Best of all, Bin Laden got a scapegoat. In December 2003, pictures of a bearded Saddam Hussein caught in a foxhole appeared on American TV screens. At that moment, the hunt for Bin Laden was over because frankly, Americans couldn't tell the difference.
Saddam Hussein, unlike Bin Laden, never attacked the United States. But, he was an Arab man with a beard who had been considered an enemy of the U.S., so it seemed as if we had gotten the bad guy.
Five years after 9/11, Bin Laden is still alive. The President claims he would send troops to Pakistan if he had intelligence that Bin Laden was there, but just four years ago he told us that he was "not that concerned" about him.
Of course the war in Iraq is reason for terrorists to celebrate. It has been magnificent for Al Qaeda, and a nightmare for America. It's time we punish the party that put us there, and we have an opportunity to do so on Nov. 7.
This is just more evidence for how horrible this war is for the American people. In fact, experts on the subject of terrorism believe that this war in Iraq is what Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cohorts had hoped they would get in Afghanistan.
The plan was simple. Al Qaeda attacked America on Sept. 11 to provoke a military strike in Afghanistan, which they believed would have been similar to the Soviet occupation of the same country back in the 1980s. The hope was that this occupation would lead to the demise of the American superpower as it did the USSR.
Unfortunately for Bin Laden, America's military force was strong enough to take out the Taliban, and bring freedom to the Afghan people.
Unfortunately for us, George W. Bush and his cabinet are greedy, oil-hungry, money-grubbing liars who used the post 9/11 patriotism and War on Terror as an excuse to trick America into going to war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
Just as they had planned on doing in the Project for a New American Century, Bush and his gang of oil-hungry deceivers took American troops into a country we had no business messing with: Iraq.
This led to what military officials call a quagmire. U.S. troops found themselves in the middle of a civil war. Pictures of American tanks on sacred Muslim territory stayed on the televisions of the Islamic world.
A country once considered as the world's moral leader has became hated and despised around the world. Al Qaeda's recruitment efforts went through the roof.
Best of all, Bin Laden got a scapegoat. In December 2003, pictures of a bearded Saddam Hussein caught in a foxhole appeared on American TV screens. At that moment, the hunt for Bin Laden was over because frankly, Americans couldn't tell the difference.
Saddam Hussein, unlike Bin Laden, never attacked the United States. But, he was an Arab man with a beard who had been considered an enemy of the U.S., so it seemed as if we had gotten the bad guy.
Five years after 9/11, Bin Laden is still alive. The President claims he would send troops to Pakistan if he had intelligence that Bin Laden was there, but just four years ago he told us that he was "not that concerned" about him.
Of course the war in Iraq is reason for terrorists to celebrate. It has been magnificent for Al Qaeda, and a nightmare for America. It's time we punish the party that put us there, and we have an opportunity to do so on Nov. 7.
