Common Sense

Some of us have been saying for years that all we’re doing is increasing our chances of being attack by terrorists again by staying in Iraq. Funny, that’s what the whole of the intelligence community thinks too:

Let’s put together the syllogism: Al-Qaida is more inclined to attack the United States because of its affiliation with AQI; AQI is the only affiliate that wants to attack the United States; therefore, if there were no AQI, the danger of an attack would be far less severe, if it existed at all.

Let’s add one more link to the logical chain (which the NIE leaves out but which is self-evident): If there were no U.S. occupation of Iraq, there would be no AQI. (Certainly the organization didn’t exist until well into the occupation. It has gained a foothold in Iraq—energizing “the broader Sunni extremist community”—by playing off their anti-American sentiments.)

Many times, President Bush has said that we’re fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them here. It is an absurd argument in many ways. But the NIE reveals that the opposite is the case—that because we’re fighting them in Iraq, we are more likely to face them here.

And as Justin Long says in Live Free or Die Hard “It took five days for FEMA to get water to the Superdome!” All the top-notch people that took care of the mess after the attacks on 9/11 are gone. They’ve been replaced by morons based soley on how loyal they are to the GOP and to President Bush himself.

If we were hit again, I don’t even want to imagine how royally fucked we’d be.