Friday, January 14, 2005
As If You Didn't Know
The only thing the Iraq War has succeeded in doing (aside from putting Saddam Hussein in jail) is providing a place to train more terrorists:
I'm telling you, in thirty years people will look back on this period in US history and say, "What the fuck were they thinking?!?"
The war in Iraq is creating a training and recruitment ground for a new generation of "professionalized" Islamic terrorists, and the risk of a terrorist attack involving a germ weapon is steadily growing, an in-house CIA think tank said in a report released Thursday.
The "dispersion of the experienced survivors of the conflict in Iraq" to other countries will create a new threat in the coming 15 years, especially as the Al Qaeda network mutates into a volatile brew of independent extremist groups, cells and individuals, according to the report by the National Intelligence Council.
David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, said those who survived the Iraq war would pose a threat when they went home, "even under the best of scenarios."
I'm telling you, in thirty years people will look back on this period in US history and say, "What the fuck were they thinking?!?"
