During his recent televised speech about Iraq, the president hammered home the point once again that a loss in Iraq is a victory for Al Qaeda. Of that, no realist without a political agenda could argue. What he failed to mention with clarity, however, is that a loss in Iraq is also a victory for Iran — a clear victory at that, and one whose ramifications may extend far beyond those of a victorious Al Qaeda.
Fox analyst Lt. Col. Bill Cowan is wrong again as he says the real issue is not about an Al Qaeda victory in Iraq. It’s worse. It’s about an Iranian victory in Iraq. Iran as empowered and emboldened, quick to fill the void, on the threshold of having nuclear weapons and openly frank in their desire to wipe Israel and the U.S. off the map.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290723,00.html
I don't have to tell you but a loss in Iraq, the entire middle east, and Pakistan and Afghanistan was guaranteed the day Bush diverted from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan to attack Iraq not to unseat Saddam or free the Iraqi's but to get our military in the middle east to prosecute his new middle east order "God" told Him too. He will not leave period until he finds an excuse to use our military further while they are over there. He is still insisting that the biggest threat too Iraq is Al Qaeda.
He is only saying that to get the American people behind him as he endeavors to stay in Iraq until he finds his excuse to attack Iran or Pakistan, whoever comes first now. You know my concern has increasingly become for Al Qaeda, Islamics, Taliban, Mujahadeen, Insurgents, whatever you want to call them, coming from Pakistan. I was glad to hear that a day after President Bush sought to present evidence showing that Iraq is now the main battlefront against Al Qaeda, the chief US intelligence analyst for international terrorism told Congress that the network's growing ranks in Pakistan and Afghanistan pose a more immediate threat to the United States.
You know he will be ignored because he is right but In rare testimony before two House committees, Edward Gistaro, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, said that Al Qaeda terrorists operating in South Asia are better equipped to attack the United States than the network's followers in Iraq are.
Asked which arm of Al Qaeda concerned him the most, Gistaro told a joint session of the House armed services and intelligence panels that it was South Asia. "The primary concern is in Al Qaeda in South Asia organizing its own plots against the United States," he said. Al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks from its bases in Afghanistan.
The top leaders of the terrorist network, Gistaro added, are "able to exploit the comfort zone in the tribal areas" of Pakistan and Afghanistan and are "bringing people in to train for Western operations and we know this is true.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asi...
You know I am increasingly concerned that Bush is going to wrongly keep us in the middle east until he can attack Iran and at the same time as this is going to happen he will find it necessary to go into Pakistan.
Listening to Gistaro some of us might want to feel vindicated for our concerns but me, knowing that Bush will ignore this threat too because it does not fit his plans until it becomes another "Bush allowed" crisis, I am troubled that Pakistan will quickly become priority one. Man are we ever in serious trouble because of Bush's corruptive ineptitude as his only concern is pursuing his so called new world order.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://www.anaveragepatriot.com/
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