[churchillbuff]

Osama who? Guess we forgot about him. He didn't forget about us, though.

[DB]

Japanese recruits boosted by Dolittles attack on Japan...

[LibWhacker]

The US-led war on Iraq, far from countering terrorism, has helped revitalise the Al-Qaeda terror network . . .

Yeah, and I'm sure they're all highly trained, too. </sarcasm>

Bring 'em on.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Hey GeneralMcClellanBuff, perhaps you are unaware that this 'think tank' also was a big anti-nuke, anti-war supporter during the 80's. Since you 'claim' to be a big Reagan supporter, why would you post as gospel truth a spun study from a group that actively tried to undermine Reagan's Cold War efforts?

And as to your snotty little remarks implying that Bush isn't pursuing AQ, that's either complete ignorance or blatent dishonesty. You tell me, are you an idiot or a liar? How nice of you to spit on our forces in Afghanistan(and in and out of autonomous Pakistan and other places that you have no clue about.)

All your posts seem to be anti-Bush, and often contradictary. I urge each reader to check your posting history for themselves. Your main purpose seems to be dividing conservatives and defeating the Bush administration. Once again showing your chosen freepname to be the most ironic one on FR.

[DoughtyOne]

The United States had no ongoing hostilities with any middle-eastern nation on 09/11. Evidently this 'think tank' (my a$$), thinks enduring those is a lot safer than taking it to the insects on their own soil. There's a lot of that going around these days. Cowards and fifth-columnists are a dime a dozen. To hell with each and every one of them. This is more of a stink tank than a think tank.

[jwpjr]

When you want to check a patient's pulse rate you have to palpate the pulse for several seconds, the longer the time you count the more accurate your results. If you grab a patient's wrist and only feel for a pulse for less than a second there's a better than even chance you'll come away with the conclusion that the patient has no pulse and is therefore dead. I view the Irag war in much the same way. Then events of any single hour or day or even a week can be misleading. It's pretty trendy right now for the left to use the line that our incursion into Iraq has really worked against our longer term security from terrorists. That might be true, but we won't know for some time to come. I don't think we can know right now how effective our moves against worldwide terrorism have really been. But I think our attacking them on a variety of fronts, not the least of which has been to mess with their funding and denying them at access to at least two countries that were willing to support them has got to be making their job more difficult! At this stage of the game that may be the best we can hope for. I think it's a lot like setting out to destroy a hornet's nest. Based on the first few seconds of the encounter it would certainly appear to have made matters worse, but come back in a short while, after the poison has had a chance to work its magic, and the scene will be entirely different. What had looked early on like a serious miscalculation will turn out to be a success. Much of what we hear from our enemies, both foreign and domestic, is just their attempts to convince themselves that they are right and we are wrong. We'll know a lot more about the wisdom of the administration's plan to combat terrorism than we do now, while the hornets haven't started to feel the effects of the spray we've hit them with. Come back in a year and let's see where things are!

[Susannah]

I'm sure this same "think tank" would have criticized a pre-emptive strike against Afghanistan prior to 9/11 too.

[Just mythoughts]

"LONDON : The US-led war on Iraq, far from countering terrorism, has helped revitalise the Al-Qaeda terror network, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank warned."


Al-Qaeda helped the socialists in Spain take power, and the US lying crooked liberals are hoping for the same this November. These of the socialistic mind have said from the beginning protecting Saddam was about OIL.

So I suppose these of the "think-tank are correct, liberal/socialists/communists are in league with Al-Qaeda.

[L.N. Smithee]

The IISS said the United States, which has dominated world affairs since the end of the Cold War, had failed to understand that Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks were "a violent reaction to America's pre-eminence" and it urged the superpower to temper "the appearance of American unilateralism".

Oh, that's a great strategy. Let them think they're winning, and then they'll leave us alone. That worked like a charm for Neville Chamberlain, didn't it?

[gathersnomoss]

"The US-led war on Iraq, far from countering terrorism, has helped revitalise the Al-Qaeda terror network, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank warned."

Wrongo. What J Efin war led up to 9/11? Take a seat.

[FreeReign]

The London-based body said in its annual Strategic Survey 2003/2004 that the deadly train bombings in Madrid in March, the worst terror strike in Europe for more than a decade, showed that Osama Bin Laden's terror network "had fully reconstituted".

Nonsequitur.

It doesn't following that Al Qaeda has "fully reconstituted" because they were able to pull off the train bombings in Spain.

[FreeReign]

The IISS pointed to devastating blasts in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in 2003 and 2004 as further evidence that anti-US sentiment had soared since the Iraq war.

More false conclusions.

This "think-tank" isn't running on a full tank.

[ladyinred]

No, in fact it is the media that has revitalized the terrorist network of Osama if anyone has. Acting like our President is the biggest enemy of this nation has most likely made him more than ready to prove them wrong. Clinton's refusal to acknowledge his acts of terror as just that made him escalate the violence each time.(according to statements made by him and his minions at the time)

[Mr. Silverback]

Oh no! We attacked a country that harbored, trained and funded terrorists! How in the world did we allow ourselves to be distracted from fighting terrorists like that?

Oh, and thank you for giving me a perfect spot to put my mighty and much feared...

Questions of Ultimate Iraqi Wisdom!

Finish one or more of the following sentences and show us the boffo supra-genius reasoning that lead you to it:

1. Iraq was not a terrorist state, and my case for this assertion is...

2. Even though Iraq harbored, trained and funded terrorists, it was not a legitimate target because...

3. We should not be fighting the War on Terror at all because...

4. Fewer than 1,000 total military casualties in a war that started with the slaughter of 3,000 noncombatants on our home soil is a huge problem because...

5. If we leave terrorist states up and running, I foresee the next major terrorist attack will be prevented by...

[spunkets]

The Saddam dictatorship supported terrorists with cash, trainning, land for trainning ops, weapons and other supplies. The killer freindly regime is gone now. It was ousted with concurrent ops against al queda in Afghanistan and other places.

Ignoring the fact that Saddam's feydayeen ltc Ahmed Hikmat Shakir was a planner and trainer of the 9-11 attacks and instead posting rubbish propaganda from a left wing creative outfit makes you complicit with the terrorist enemy's efforts. The jihadi's aren't strengthened by their loss of a freindly country. They're strengthened by collecting allies, such as yourself.