Doug Ross @ Journal

"Iraq has made things worse"

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If there's one thing the MSM/DNC does well (and goodness knows, reporting and analysis ain't among them), presenting a unified front may be it.

Since the London attacks, there's been a concerted effort on the part of their mouthpieces to force-feed the public a new meme. It is simply: "Iraq has made things worse". Echoed by Franken, Oliphant, Reagan, and many, many others, this assertion is so obviously and provaby false it would be utterly laughable were the consequences not so serious. Even the Times, which calls the global war on terror a "so-called war", is following this intellectually dishonest and ultimately damaging reasoning.

And perhaps someone could point NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, who seems woefully unprepared to discuss these topics in public, to a couple of old news articles:

MSNBC: 2 arrested in alleged plot to bomb NYC subway - A U.S. citizen and a Pakistani national were arrested in an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, and possibly other locations around the city, police said Saturday. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the men were not believed to be connected to al-Qaida or any other international terrorist organization, although he said they expressed hatred for America.

Not tied to Al Qaeda? Wait... just... a... second... I thought we were only fighting Bin Laden's crew! But, wait, there's more!

ENN: Terrorist plot to bomb the New York City Subway System - Members of the New York City Joint Terrorism Task Force... made a raid on a Brooklyn apartment and seized several pipe bombs and arrested three men, described as being "Middle Eastern." [Officials are] now investigating to see if there was a possible plot to bomb the New York City subway system and other targets... ...the [apparent] plan called for an attack on the Atlantic Avenue station, which includes ten subway lines and a Long Island Rail Road terminal...

Hold the phone! This article is from 1997? You mean this predates the Iraq war? How can that be?

And perhaps the meme-squirters on the Left could explain the following table (source: WikiPedia), which lists terror attacks by death toll. Here are the first ten:

Fatalities	Terror Attack
2,992	September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001)
344	Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
329	Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
299	US and French barracks bombings, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
270	Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
257	1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
225	1998 U.S. embassy bombings, (Tanzania, Kenya, 1998)
220	Kerbala and Baghdad attacks [2], (Iraq, 2004)
202	2002 Bali bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
191	11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, (Spain, 2004)

Strangely enough, only two of the ten attacks (#8 and #10) can be connected to the Iraq war.

And even the London attacks, notes Bill Roggio, are seemingly connected not just to Iraq but also to Afghanistan:

...The [terrorists'] statement also warned "Denmark, Italy and all of the Crusader governments" that they will be attacked if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan [emphasis added]. The usual suspects will claim the attacks were motivated by Iraq, it should be noted that involvement in Afghanistan was also declared as a motive by al Qaeda.

In September 2002, al-Qa’ida spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith stated, "We have the right to kill four million Americans - two million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. It is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons."

And US expert Graham Allison, from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, who has studied nuclear proliferation at length, warns, "In my own considered judgment, on the current path, a nuclear attack on America in the decade ahead is more likely than not."

Yet the single, ridiculous contention emanating from the MSM/DNC is this:

The root cause of terrorism is fighting against it
The enemy believes we are locked in a world war. Conservatives believe likewise. Many on the Left claim not only that we are not fighting a war, but that we should also withdraw into a shell, change nothing in the Middle East, and hope for the best.

Don't tell them that they are utter laughingstocks. You might disturb their delicate balance of hatred for the Bush administration and frustration at their long-running series of election losses. It is a streak certain to continue, at least until their leadership is replaced from the ground up.