Dixie?

[Cypress]

Dixie, we have learned that 1) there were no WMD in iraq, 2) that Saddam hated al qaeda, 3) that Saddam was not cooperating at all with al qaeda, 4) that Saddam was not harboring Zarqawi, 5) and that in fact Saddam was trying to find and arrest Zarqawi, and that 6) torture and murder is as bad (or worse) in Iraq now than under Saddam. .

Today we learn from the new National Intelligence Estimate (the most authorative document put out by the U.S. Intelligence Community), that Bush's Iraq war has made the threat of terrorism worse

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/w...&en=003f596f66422cfd&ei=5094&partner=homepage



Dixie, can you give us one of your dissertations on why the Iraq war was, and remains, a good idea? thanks.

 

[Prakosh]

Dixie, we have learned that 1) there were no WMD in iraq, 2) that Saddam hated al qaeda, 3) that Saddam was not cooperating at all with al qaeda, 4) that Saddam was not harboring Zarqawi, 5) and that in fact Saddam was trying to find and arrest Zarqawi, and that 6) torture and murder is as bad (or worse) in Iraq now than under Saddam. .

Today we learn from the new National Intelligence Estimate (the most authorative document put out by the U.S. Intelligence Community), that Bush's Iraq war has made the threat of terrorism worse



Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/w...&en=003f596f66422cfd&ei=5094&partner=homepage



Dixie, can you give us one of your dissertations on why the Iraq war was, and remains, a good idea? thanks.

I don't know about Dixie's ideas on the Iraq war, but I do like the cancer metaphor...someday someone should do a paper on the ways in which doctors and military people (including intelligence agencies) exchange and use each other's actions as metaphors. It has always fascinated me...

 

[Prakosh]

Dixie, we have learned that 1) there were no WMD in iraq, 2) that Saddam hated al qaeda, 3) that Saddam was not cooperating at all with al qaeda, 4) that Saddam was not harboring Zarqawi, 5) and that in fact Saddam was trying to find and arrest Zarqawi, and that 6) torture and murder is as bad (or worse) in Iraq now than under Saddam. .

Today we learn from the new National Intelligence Estimate (the most authorative document put out by the U.S. Intelligence Community), that Bush's Iraq war has made the threat of terrorism worse

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/w...&en=003f596f66422cfd&ei=5094&partner=homepage



Dixie, can you give us one of your dissertations on why the Iraq war was, and remains, a good idea? thanks.

More to the point perhaps, FOXSPEWS is reporting after questioning "how this report got leaked by the way" that this report is "political" and rather than containing any truth or even being worthy of discussion, repesents nothing more than "institutionalized bureaucracy backstabbing or rebelling against the president." And the late night round table went on to speculate about how this report must be harming our troops in Baghdad. So there you have the late night round table discussion and the administration talking points for the day. Nothing to it, and damaging to troop morale...

 

[Cypress]

For your convenience Dixie, I've put the findings of the U.S. Government (Duelfer Report, Bipartisan Senate Report, and new NIE) in outline form:

1) there were no WMD in iraq;
2) Saddam hated al qaeda;
3) Saddam was not cooperating at all with al qaeda;
4) Saddam was not harboring Zarqawi;
5) that in fact Saddam was trying to find and arrest Zarqawi;
6) torture and murder is as bad (or worse) in Iraq now than under Saddam;
7) we now learn from the new National Intelligence Estimate (the most authorative document put out by the U.S. Intelligence Community), that Bush's Iraq war has made the threat of terrorism worse.


Dixie, Please present your dissertation on why the iraq war was a good idea.

READY....SET....GO!

 

[LadyT]

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[Cypress]

Dixie?

For your convenience Dixie, I've put the findings of the U.S. Government (Duelfer Report, Bipartisan Senate Report, and new NIE) in outline form:

1) there were no WMD in iraq;
2) Saddam hated al qaeda;
3) Saddam was not cooperating at all with al qaeda;
4) Saddam was not harboring Zarqawi;
5) that in fact Saddam was trying to find and arrest Zarqawi;
6) torture and murder is as bad (or worse) in Iraq now than under Saddam;
7) we now learn from the new National Intelligence Estimate (the most authorative document put out by the U.S. Intelligence Community), that Bush's Iraq war has made the threat of terrorism worse.


Dixie, Please present your dissertation on why the iraq war was a good idea.

READY....SET....GO!