Mammon-worshipping Chickenhawks

Almost every single claim our Mammon-worshipping Chickenhawks have made--has turned out to be inaccurate at best & lies at worst.

just a few:

- Saddam was behind 9/11 attacks - FALSE
- Saddam had ties to al-Qaeda - FALSE
- Saddam had WMD's - FALSE
- our invasion/takeover of Iraq has made US safer - FALSE
- less loss of life & torture with Saddam forcibly removed - FALSE

- 19 foreigners with box-cutters overcame all our Trillions of $$'s in defense spending over many decades & miraculously succeeded in flying passenger planes into not only our 2 tallest buildings (furthermore, causing 3 massive steel-framed buildings to utterly & inexplicably collapse), but also fly right into our heart's primary defense building--the Pentagon--if That's true (that a handful of foreigners did all that), then All the chickenhawks, All the military higher-ups, & the entire military industrial complex should be fired & sent to Iraq to fight & die for Their brutally evil, if incompetent, war.

How can we tolerate such incredible incompetence--year after year?

Bush & Company have had nearly 6 yrs to 'get' Osama. Our #1 enemy, supposedly.
(well, except that the FBI still doesn't list 9/11 on Osama's Wanted Poster, curiously enough)

Violence breeds violence.

It's up to the Strong (that's US) to break the cycle of violence.

We can't bomb & torture our way to peace--no matter how many lives we take & lies we're told.
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Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat

By MARK MAZZETTI


WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.

The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,” said one American intelligence official.

More than a dozen United States government officials and outside experts were interviewed for this article, and all spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a classified intelligence document. The officials included employees of several government agencies, and both supporters and critics of the Bush administration. All of those interviewed had either seen the final version of the document or participated in the creation of earlier drafts. These officials discussed some of the document’s general conclusions but not details, which remain highly classified. ......

www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html