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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (15786)	7/26/2007 9:36:29 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

> > whenever "Al Qaeda" appears Uncle Sam cannot be far behind (21) politics.ie >>In a speech in Carolina today, George Bush discussed the war on terror. The full text is available here whitehouse.gov But [the writer has] taken the liberty of highlighting the important bits. << washingtonpost.com >>Al Qaeda's Best Publicist Like any terrorist organization, al-Qaeda wants attention. It wants to be perceived as powerful. And it particularly wants Americans to live in fear. Could al-Qaeda possibly have found a better publicist than President Bush? At a South Carolina Air Force base yesterday, Bush mentioned al-Qaeda and bin Laden 118 times in 29 minutes, arguing that the violence unleashed by the U.S. invasion in Iraq would somehow come to America's shores if U.S. troops were to withdraw. But the majority of that violence in Iraq is caused either by Iraqis murdering each other for religious reasons or by Iraqis trying to throw off the American occupation. The group that calls itself al-Qaeda in Iraq is only one of a multitude of factions creating chaos in that country, and the long-term goals of its Iraqi members are almost certainly not in line with those of al-Qaeda HQ (which is safely ensconced in Pakistan).<<