The Report - Oh My Run and Hide!

The majority of the media sites are having a field day with the leaked intelligence report I previously wrote my feelings about. Phrases such as, Bush is cooked and this opening paragraph of an Australian media site, The Australian, “THE Iraq war is a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists, helping underwrite terrorism and fuelling anti-American sentiment for years to come, according to a declassified US intelligence report that is at odds with the Bush administration's portrayal of the conflict.”

In other words, the media are defiantly in their element, all is wrong in the world and they have dirt on the Bush administration, consequently just about every reporter mantra is, “We hate Bush and let's let him have it with all we got!”

For the point of this conversation, let us touch base on a few of the pertinent items being screamed in large point type from every headline. The following is taken directly from chron.com, simply because I refused to quote from any major American news service.

The increased role of Iraqis in managing the operations of al-Qaeda in Iraq might lead the terror group's veteran foreign fighters to refocus their efforts outside that country.

• While Iran and Syria are the most active state sponsors of terror, many other countries will be unable to prevent their resources from being exploited by terrorists.

• The underlying factors fueling the spread of the extremist Muslim movement outweigh its vulnerabilities. These factors are entrenched grievances and a slow pace of reform in home countries, rising anti-U.S. sentiment and the Iraq war.
  
  
• Let us be honest boys and girls, it mattered not what infinitesimal spot of soil one of our American boots stepped onto, if it were of Muslim ownership a jihad would have been declared against us filthy infidels.

As far as rising anti-U.S. sentiment and the Iraq war, again this was going to transpire all by itself, with or without Iraq.

We need to remember something that is being overlooked, swept under rugs or simply avoided being discussed in the media so they can keep the fire fueled, Muslims attacked the United States of America, and this is not a racist or bigoted statement but a validation of truth. Whatever means of response America would have decided upon would have brought about the exact intelligence assessments.

It is very interesting that the report managed to be leaked at the same time as the elections coming close, gee, who would have even guessed the reasoning behind that one. In any case, I am sure that are many things, strike that, many – many things, which could have been and should be done that are not only different, but also more effective in the war in Iraq, but the fact remains, we were attacked and we responded.

My only problem with this is I feel we did not do more, we should have and now we are playing catch up.