Bush's failed Mideast policy is creating more terrorism

As usual, got this article from a friend of mine, currently studying in Australia:-

Bush's failed Mideast policy is creating more terrorism

By U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings

Originally published in the Charleston Post and CourierMay 6, 2004

With 760 dead in Iraq and over 3,000 maimed for life, home folks continue to argue why we are in Iraq -- and how to get out.

Now everyone knows what was not the cause. Even President Bush acknowledges that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Listing the 45 countries where al-Qaida was operating on September 11 (70 cells in the U.S.), the State Department did not list Iraq. Richard Clarke, in "Against All Enemies," tells how the United States had not received any threat of terrorism for 10 years from Saddam at the time of our invasion.

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