{"id":1344,"date":"2004-09-25T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/wrong-question-was-iraq-part-of-the-war-on-terror\/"},"modified":"2004-09-25T09:41:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T16:41:57","slug":"wrong-question-was-iraq-part-of-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wrong-question-was-iraq-part-of-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Question: WAS Iraq Part of the War on Terror?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Economist.com | America and Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.co.uk\/agenda\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3222665\">Economist.com | America and Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is Iraq part of the war on terror? Yes, says Mr Bush. At the Republican convention, he asked: &#8220;Do I forget the lessons of September 11th and take the word of a madman, or do I take action to defend our country?&#8221; No, says Mr Kerry: the war is a distraction from al-Qaeda and has created the very terrorist havens that the administration claimed to be acting to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>On this question, voters are undecided. The number of those who think Saddam and al-Qaeda were linked has fallen; just over half now say the war has not reduced the chance of a new terrorist assault on America; but roughly equal numbers think the Iraq campaign has strengthened and weakened the war on terror.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Duybya wasted money, time and other resources on Iraq and abandoned the pursuit of Osama bin Laden. In the process, he turned created a breeding ground for terrorists. Every Iraq killed has a family ready to kill &#8212; and die &#8212; in revenge. Bush&#8217;s actions were unbelievably, unforgivably irresponsible. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist.com | America and Iraq Is Iraq part of the war on terror? Yes, says Mr Bush. At the Republican convention, he asked: &#8220;Do I forget the lessons of September 11th and take the word of a madman, or do I take action to defend our country?&#8221; No, says Mr Kerry: the war is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wrong-question-was-iraq-part-of-the-war-on-terror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wrong Question: WAS Iraq Part of the War on Terror?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}