On what could Bush possibly unite Saudi Arabia and Israel? That fact that his war with Iraq has
made the world a more dangerous place.
New investigations by the Saudi Arabian government and an Israeli think tank -- both of which painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States -- have found that the vast majority of these foreign fighters are not former terrorists and became radicalized by the war itself. . . .
The studies, which together constitute the most detailed picture available of foreign fighters, cast serious doubt on President Bush's claim that those responsible for some of the worst violence are terrorists who seized on the opportunity to make Iraq the ''central front" in a battle against the United States . . .
This is being reported in the
Boston Globe.
As if the atrocity in London was not enough, these studies provide even more proof that the "flypaper" strategy is utter bullshit. These studies, combined with the spike in terrorism around the globe since Bush's War began, show that Bush's War has helped make the terrorists more effective at what they do.