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<font>A Hundred Days of Progress (http://www.spectator.org/article.asp?art_id=2003_8_14_0_8_29)</font>
by Steven Martinovich
<font size=1>Published 8/14/2003 12:08:00 AM</font>
It's ironic that at about the same time the peace movement -- which apparently still hasn't heard that the coalition was victorious in Iraq -- launched a new round of protests in the United States over the war the Bush administration released a 25-page report, largely ignored by the media, documenting its successes over the past few months. The peaceniks' renewed claims about the illegitimacy of the war were answered before the paint was dry on their new "No Blood for Oil" signs.
Entitled "100 Days of Progress in Iraq," the administration's report lays out a hundred positive developments in Iraq since the fall of the Hussein régime. Among the achievements are signs of cultural rebirth, improvements in the lives of women (although the administration surprisingly doesn't mention the end of the Hussein rape gangs), democratic reforms, internal security and economic renewal, among others.
The section labeled "10 Ways the Liberation of Iraq Supports the War on Terror" may be the most important, at least from the perspective of Western security, especially since terrorism was one of the primary reasons why the U.S. led coalition went to war. Contrary to what critics of the war claimed, Iraq earned its reputation as one of the U.S. State Department's seven state sponsors of terrorism. Its links with terrorist movements, suspected before the war, have been fully exposed.
As the report shows, the link between al-Qaeda and Iraq was more than just mere speculation. A senior member of the terrorist group admitted that al-Qaeda was intent on obtaining weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. Osama bin Laden, said one high-level al-Qaeda source, "did not believe that al-Qaeda labs in Afghanistan were capable of manufacturing chemical and biological weapons, so they turned to Iraq for assistance." In a gesture of anti-American solidarity, Iraq agreed to train two al-Qaeda members in biological and chemical weapons.
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Click here to read more (http://www.spectator.org/article.asp?art_id=2003_8_14_0_8_29)
by Steven Martinovich
<font size=1>Published 8/14/2003 12:08:00 AM</font>
It's ironic that at about the same time the peace movement -- which apparently still hasn't heard that the coalition was victorious in Iraq -- launched a new round of protests in the United States over the war the Bush administration released a 25-page report, largely ignored by the media, documenting its successes over the past few months. The peaceniks' renewed claims about the illegitimacy of the war were answered before the paint was dry on their new "No Blood for Oil" signs.
Entitled "100 Days of Progress in Iraq," the administration's report lays out a hundred positive developments in Iraq since the fall of the Hussein régime. Among the achievements are signs of cultural rebirth, improvements in the lives of women (although the administration surprisingly doesn't mention the end of the Hussein rape gangs), democratic reforms, internal security and economic renewal, among others.
The section labeled "10 Ways the Liberation of Iraq Supports the War on Terror" may be the most important, at least from the perspective of Western security, especially since terrorism was one of the primary reasons why the U.S. led coalition went to war. Contrary to what critics of the war claimed, Iraq earned its reputation as one of the U.S. State Department's seven state sponsors of terrorism. Its links with terrorist movements, suspected before the war, have been fully exposed.
As the report shows, the link between al-Qaeda and Iraq was more than just mere speculation. A senior member of the terrorist group admitted that al-Qaeda was intent on obtaining weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. Osama bin Laden, said one high-level al-Qaeda source, "did not believe that al-Qaeda labs in Afghanistan were capable of manufacturing chemical and biological weapons, so they turned to Iraq for assistance." In a gesture of anti-American solidarity, Iraq agreed to train two al-Qaeda members in biological and chemical weapons.
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Click here to read more (http://www.spectator.org/article.asp?art_id=2003_8_14_0_8_29)