No, No... his illegal, unjust shock and awe couldn't possibly inspire Arab youth to wade into the fray.
Just ask yourself. If someone did what we did to Washington State or Michigan or New Mexico or any other state in the Union, would you just sit there, like a bump on a log? I know damn well I wouldn't.
Perhaps this is just another example of the incompetence of "not knowing your enemy." To Muslims Iraq is a state of Muslim land and we invaded and occupied it, illegally and for no just cause.
The Bush administration rejects the idea that the war in Iraq has driven young Arab men into the arms of al-Qaida. But if you believe the young men themselves, the administration is wrong.
At a Baghdad jail for prisoners who have attacked U.S. forces, everyone — to a man — says it was the U.S. occupation of Iraq that drove them to violence. And they are not alone. Across the Middle East and South Asia, the same story can be heard in Internet cafes, mosques, safe houses and prisons.
“The U.S. says this war is part of the global war on terrorism,” Saedi Farhan, an Iraqi engineer who took part in an attack on U.S. forces, said in a weekend interview with NBC News. "But people here say that the war has increased fanaticism and brought terrorism to Iraq."
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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.
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