Uncle Osama Wants You

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Uncle Osama Wants You
Posted 9/10/2007
War On Terror: The co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission buy the Democratic line that the war in Iraq is a diversion from the war on terror and a recruiting tool for al-Qaida . But it's the bad guys who are less safe.

In a Washington Post op-ed, 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton ponder the question of whether we are safer now than we were on that tragic day.
They conclude the war in Iraq has made us less safe.
They are wrong.
"No conflict" they opine, "drains more time, attention, blood and treasure and support from our worldwide counterterrorism efforts than the war in Iraq. It has become a powerful recruiting and training tool for al-Qaida."
Considering the rapid demise of al-Qaida leaders, the terror group probably isn't offering a retirement plan, though.
Omaf Farouq, leader of al-Qaida in Southeast Asia, was one of those drawn to the jihadist cause in Iraq. In September 2006, he was killed by British troops in a firefight in Basra. In an audiotape released late that month, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq said 4,000 such recruits had been killed in Iraq since Iraq was liberated, including leaders like Omar Farouq and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
What Kean and Hamilton fail to comprehend is that Islamofascists and al-Qaida will always find excuses to wage war on civilization and the West.
We weren't in Iraq on 9/11. We were in Saudi Arabia protecting that country after Saddam, the world's most prolific killer of Muslims, invaded Kuwait. Osama bin Laden used the presence of infidel soldiers on holy Saudi soil as an excuse, and a recruiting tool.
The jihadists always will have an excuse, whether it be the existence of Israel or the excesses of Western culture or a newspaper publishing offensive cartoons. In his latest videotape, bin Laden warned about Western corporations and global warming. Do Kean and Hamilton suggest we ratify Kyoto to prevent the next attack?
It is al-Qaida that has made Iraq a central front. Al-Qaida's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a letter to the leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, said: "Victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established in the manner of the Prophet in the heart of the Islamic world" — a description that Iraq fits nicely.
"The jihad movement is growing and rising," Zawahiri wrote to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in October 2005. "Now it is waging a great historic battle in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and even within the Crusader's own homes."
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