"The war in Iraq broke our back"

if the bush administration rejects the opinion of top climate research scientists that global warming is related to human activity, you can be sure they will reject the opinions of terrorism and national security experts saying we are losing the war on terror... anything that doesn't fit in with their ironclad and purely magical belief system is automatically demonized as worthless junk...

The United States is losing its fight against terrorism and the Iraq war is the biggest reason why, more than eight of ten American terrorism and national security experts concluded in a poll released Wednesday.

One participant in the survey, a former CIA official who described himself as a conservative Republican, said the war in Iraq has provided global terrorist groups with a recruiting bonanza, a valuable training ground and a strategic beach head at the crossroads of the oil-rich Persian Gulf and Turkey, the traditional land bridge linking the Middle East to Europe.

"The war in Iraq broke our back in the war on terror," said the former official, Michael Scheuer, the author of "Imperial Hubris," a popular book highly critical of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism efforts. "It has made everything more difficult and the threat more existential."

in keeping with my deeply cynical frame of mind today, let me offer this... i do not believe the bush administration has any desire whatsoever to win the war on terror... terrorists are this administration's best friends... always having terrorists in the picture ensures that there will be no end of opportunities to keep fear levels high which, in turn, makes it that much easier to continue to amass unobstructed power and ignore the checks and balances provided for in the u.s. constitution...

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