Iraq & Americans’ Safety

CONservative Spin:

“We need to fight them there so we won’t need to fight them here. Iraq is a key battleground in the war on terror. ”
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PROgressive Response:

By Alex Carter
November 27th, 2007
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The war in Iraq has made us less safe. The U.S. official National Intelligence Estimate concludes that the war in Iraq has increased Islamic radicalism, and has made the terror threat around the world worse. The number of significant terrorist incidents worldwide tripled in the year following the beginning of the war, and a bipartisan survey of national security experts says the war in Iraq is making the world more dangerous for Americans.

 Source

Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States” dated April 2006. National Intelligence Estimate. April 2006.

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