London: Bush’s “Flypaper Theory” is Blown to Pieces

[Quixote1818]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/featuredposts.html#a003815

Arianna Huffington

London: Bush’s “Flypaper Theory” is Blown to Pieces
Well, there goes that theory...



Odds are we probably won’t be hearing for a while the Bush mantra that the reason we're fighting them over in Iraq is so we don't have to fight them here at home. For the last few months, this ludicrous shibboleth has been the president’s go-to line -- his latest rationale for slogging on in Iraq.

Here he was on July 4th: "We're taking the fight to the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here at home."

And during his primetime speech to the nation on June 28th, there he was again, this time quoting the commander on the ground in Iraq: “We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us."

The attacks in London proved how absurd this either/or logic is when fighting this kind of hydra-headed enemy.

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[whistle]

1. Flypaper Theory, that's good, really good take a look at this

...link and watch the animation through to the end. It explains a lot about why the Flypaper Theory has been nothing but a mirage:

<link> http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html

Maybe 250,000 more troops to secure the borders would have made the flypaper therory stick. That would have totalled 425,000 U.S troops which was what the generals before the Iraq invasion had requested.

[Frederik]

2. Speculations in London today

that the perpetrators were local "veterans" from the Iraqi insurgency. There's your flypaper, Shrubbie.

[me b zola]

7. Iraq=the new training ground for terrorists

That's a hell of a job Bush*Inc is doing.

[mr blur]

3. Yeah, but London isn't "here at home",

It's not as if Mercans died. Isn't this how many of Bush's fanatical followers will see it?

Mind you, I guess Scotland is the closest the Chimp has ever been to hostile enemy action, so it must have shaken him a little.

[Clark2008]

4. Uh... there are two Americans from my hometown in

critical condition as we speak.

Blows that theory, too. It may not be "home," but it's close enough!

[fob]

5. when bush* INSISTS iraqi patrol be counted in the dead so he*

can obscure the percentage of the deaths American troops have borne for his* folly then "here at home" MUST include EVERY nation in the coalition of the billing. "Here at Home" means everywhere but Iraq.

[DaveJ]

6. I've said this before....

I know how odd this must sound, but every time I've mentioned that Bu$h mantra to a Republican, they've stared back at me with a blank face (well even more blank than usual). Maybe that mantra is beyond most their limits of comprehension!

The typical limit of their understanding (and this is stretching it) is "the U.S. is helping Iraq." Now, as I've said before this idea is also blown out of the water, since we've proved incapable of even defending ourselves from 'terrorist' attacks.

I think it is much more pertinent that Iraq can hardly be taught to defend themselves by people who can't do it for themselves.