Iraq War Has Made Us Safer

Well, not exactly. Today in the NYT:

A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global

Now anyone with half a brain has realized for a couple of years that the Iraq War has not made us safer. Not only has it become a training ground for terrorists but everytime a muslim man, women or child is wrongly killed because of this war - some relative of those individuals becomes a convert to terrorism.