Petraeus and the “Central Front” myth
Consortium News
by Robert Parry
09/12/07
Gen. David Petraeus echoed many of George W. Bush’s dubious arguments for fighting an open-ended war in Iraq, including the emotional appeal that al-Qaeda sees Iraq as the ‘central front’ in its global jihad and wants to drive the Americans out in humiliation. But the intelligence data actually points to a near-opposite conclusion: that al-Qaeda sees Iraq as a diversion for the United States and wants to keep American forces bogged down there for the foreseeable future...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091207.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry
by Robert Parry
09/12/07
Gen. David Petraeus echoed many of George W. Bush’s dubious arguments for fighting an open-ended war in Iraq, including the emotional appeal that al-Qaeda sees Iraq as the ‘central front’ in its global jihad and wants to drive the Americans out in humiliation. But the intelligence data actually points to a near-opposite conclusion: that al-Qaeda sees Iraq as a diversion for the United States and wants to keep American forces bogged down there for the foreseeable future...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091207.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry
rudkla - 14. Sep, 17:01
