The War on Terror Is the Leading Cause of Terrorism
AlterNet: War on Iraq: The War on Terror Is the Leading Cause of Terrorism
Its official: A new report shows that the U.S. has made the world more dangerous — not just for Americans, but for everyone.
Innocent people across the world are now paying the price of the “Iraq effect,” with the loss of hundreds of lives directly linked to the invasion and occupation by American and British forces.
An authoritative U.S. study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research is said to be the first to attempt to measure the “Iraq effect” on global terrorism.
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No surprises there then. Yet against this background what’s really surprising is the apparent gullibility (I say “apparent gullibility” cos if not gullibility the alternative must surely border on the criminal) of the mainstream media in still “toeing the party line” with regard to (amongst other Mid-East issues) Iran. And the continuing gullibility of large swathes of the public in buying into all the scaremongering.
