Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda - Times Online

Referring to the attacks in 1993 and 2001, General Hayden told a Washington think-tank on Thursday night: “For some people two data points create a trend line. For others, there may be more hesitation to call it that.” He said that the chief danger comes from remote areas in Pakistan that border Afghanistan.

“Today virtually every major terrorist threat that my agency is aware of has threads back to the tribal areas. Whether it’s command and control, training, direction, money, capabilities, there is a connection to the Fata [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas].”

General Hayden said that al-Qaeda remained a “determined, adaptive enemy” operating “from its safe haven in Pakistan”. He added: “If there is a major attack on this country it will bear the fingerprints of al-Qaeda.”

And the responsibility of George W. Bush, who chose to invade Iraq at the behest of the Saudis and in revenge for the attack on his father, rather than actually wage war on the Islamofascists who attacked us.

Yes, I know how Saddam was supposed to be this huge threat, and everybody agreed that he was, and the lack of WMD discoveries in hindsight does not discredit that analysis. Still - his nation was not the source of anti-American Islamofascist attacks, and he posed no imminent threat. Yes, the UN inspectors were gone, and the embargo was about to collapse, and that might have led to him getting nukes. So…?

If that is the logic, then why are we not invading and overthrowing the Iranian government today, which has a much longer history of anti-American activity and support for Islamofascist terrorists all over the world, and which is without a doubt rushing headlong to develop nuclear weapons?

The truth is that the invasion of Iraq only made sense as part of a larger strategy as a secure beachead from which to launch further attacks against the regimes that were - and still are - our enemies: Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. When Bush made it obvious that was not his strategy, the only logical reasons for the Iraqi invasion collapsed.

Oh, and how is that “bring democracy to Islam” notion working out for you? I don’t notice the oppressed Muslims rising up against their theocratic masters - and, in fact, GWB would crap his pants if that were to happen in the nation of his Saudi pals.

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