TEL AVIV, Israel - The war in Iraq (news - web sites) did not damage international terror groups, but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terrorists, a top Israeli security think tank said in a report released Monday.

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University said that instead of striking a blow against Islamic extremists, the Iraq war "has created momentum for many terrorist elements, but chiefly al-Qaida and its affiliates."


Jaffee Center director Shai Feldman said the vast amount of money and effort the United States has poured into Iraq has deflected attention and assets from other centers of terrorism, such as Afghanistan

Shlomo Brom, a retired Israeli army general, said the U.S.-led effort was strategically misdirected. If the goal in the war against terrorism is "not just to kill the mosquitos but to dry the swamp," he said, "now it's quite clear" that Iraq "is not the swamp."


Instead, he said, the Iraq campaign is having the opposite effect, drawing Islamic extremists from other parts of the world to join the battle.


"On a strategic level as well as an operational level," Brom concluded, "the war in Iraq is hurting the war on international terrorism."

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The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself. George W. Bush

Ken, Don't you know that the plan all along was to invade a country with no WoMD and then draw all the terrorists to Iraq so that we don't have to face them in the USA. I mean that is what the adminsitration keeps saying to justify the war, so we don't have to face them here. I mean every single terrorist that was planning to attack the USA has now gone to Iraq and will soon be killed so that there will be no terrorists left in the world.

This whole inflaming the hatred of the Islamic world by attacking a sovergn Islamic nation unprovoked based on false claims is making us safer. And if you can't see that, then you must be for Bin Laden. The logic is infallable.

Now what would a party hack like yourself know about infallible logic?

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)