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Buried deep within a recent AP report was, perhaps, the single most important piece of information ever to make its way out of Iraq and into American media. Despite the Bush administration and Republicans' constant warning that withdrawing from Iraq would result in al-Qaeda "following us home"; the fact is that there aren't very many so-called al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq.
General Mixon, commander of U.S. forces in Northern Iraq, said that of the 3,000 insurgents captured in the last 6 months, fewer than two percent were "foreign fighters." That means that less than 60 fighters were non-Iraqi citizens. As previous intelligence assessments have made known, many 'foreign fighters' flowing into Iraq are simply people who aspire to be martyrs in a fellow Arab nation's struggle - they've never been through any formal al-Qaeda indoctrination or training. And that means, realistically speaking, al-Qaeda in Iraq is virtually non-existent - a non-factor.
The notion that there is something akin to a horde of al-Qaeda fighters inside Iraq is just another boogeyman placed beneath the American peoples' beds by, as usual, the administration and Republican propaganda machine. The media, of course, has been all too happy to play along with the Bush administration's slick-sounding public relations "al-Qaeda in Iraq" terminology. Apparently Mister Bush and Republicans figure that they used irrational fear to swindle the American people into the Iraq War, so they'll use irrational fear to keep America stuck in the growing quagmire.
And to that end, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have concocted the completely fictional narrative that says pulling America's military out of Iraq would result in "the terrorists following us home." General Mixon's account, however, makes it clear that any Iraq-related al-Qaeda-types attempting to do so would probably die of loneliness long before they reached the United States.
For those either willing to give the President
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1457
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Quote by:
Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime
Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]
Date: April 18, 1946
Source: Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave Gilbert (an Allied appointed
psychologist), who visited daily with Goering and his cronies in their cells
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