A Spreading Terror (Iraq a school for terrorists)

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A spreading terror
Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported, says GEORGIE ANNE GEYER
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007

Anyone who knows anything about cancer knows that the danger point comes when the cancer suddenly and unexpectedly appears in another supposedly "clean" part of the body. As when, say, breast cancer, an implacable traveler, reappears in the bloodstream or the bones.

That there are stunning similarities between what happens medically in the body of man and what occurs sociologically and militarily in the societies of men is far less noticed – but just as frightening and dangerous.

Think of what has happened in only the last week in the Middle East. In northern Lebanon, in the long-established Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, out of the blue arose a new al Qaeda-related insurgent group, Fatah al-Islam. Within days and even hours, the recurring hell of the Middle East was loosed, and refugees poured out of the camp in terror.

There had been none of this kind of terror networking in these northern camps. Indeed, since this camp was established in 1949 to accommodate refugees from northern Palestine after the creation of Israel, it has housed one of the more formal and conservative of peoples.
more:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-geyer_31edi.ART.State.Edition1.4370227.html

snip:
But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness.

Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny." :wtf:
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[dave_p]

1. A setup all along?

wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!"

Thank you. That image will now never leave me. :puke:

Is this the 21st-century version of "starve the beast" aimed at wiring future Administrations into behavior not of their choosing? It's starting to look that way, and from frontrunners' comments on Iran it looks like it's already working.

Democrats need to know - and make it known - that policy continuity just won't do. Iraq's looking more like a curtain-raiser, with the troops there little more than live bait. Don't let them get away with it or you'll be fighting their war till they get to take it back and move to the next stage.