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To: Sully- who wrote (24141)11/24/2006 7:26:24 PM
From: MJ  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 35834
 
This seems so circular in Pelosi's reasoning. To say that the terrorists just happen to come to Iraq because we, America is there, is truly specious reasoning.

This is a simplistic answer that does not take into account the military and terrorist history of that area.

See below

STAHL: Do you not think that the war in Iraq now, today, is the war on terror?
Rep. PELOSI: No. The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. That is what...

STAHL: But you don't think that the terrorists have moved into Iraq now?

Rep. PELOSI: (Unintelligible). They have.

STAHL: Well...

Rep. PELOSI: The jihadists in Iraq. But that doesn't mean we stay there. That means--they'll stay there as long as we're there. They're there because we're there.

Of course, incoming Speaker Pelosi disagrees that “Iraq is now a central battlefield in the war on terrorism.”

Repaste of your links:

weeklystandard.com

weeklystandard.com