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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (97475)	5/4/2007 1:22:12 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 173976

The State Department's annual report - which included an assessment of the five years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - said the invasion of Iraq has brought "measurable benefits," including the removal of "an abusive totalitarian regime with a history of sponsoring and supporting regional terrorism." Thanks for posting that. Still, the report acknowledged, the invasion "has been used by terrorists as a rallying cry for radicalization and extremist activity that has contributed to instability in neighboring countries." And before the war the sanctions were used as a rallying cry - the Moslem world believed the US was killing 50,000 Iraqi babies a year through the sanctions. Asked if the invasion of Iraq has helped reduce terrorism, Frank C. Urbancic Jr., acting coordinator for the Office of Counterterrorism, told reporters at the State Department: "If the battle against terrorism isn't Iraq, it's going to be somewhere else. It started out in Afghanistan. The terrorists are looking for places where they can operate, and that's what they're doing. So we can fight them in Iraq, we can fight them somewhere else.... They're expanding their scope." Right, if we weren't fighting terrorists in Iraq, we'd be fighting them somewhere else.