Al-Qaida leader: 5 years of US in Iraq brought 'failure'I'm not a big fan of al Qaeda or al-Zawahri, but this is the most direct, honest assessment of W's Iraq fiasco I've read recently.
By PAKINAM AMER and KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writers
17 Apr 2008
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader claimed in an audiotape released Friday that five years of U.S. involvement in Iraq brought only defeat, and said President Bush will be forced to pass the problem to his successor.
Ayman al-Zawahri alleged that by heeding advice of his top commanders in Iraq and guaranteeing a heavy American military presence after July, Bush was "covering up for the failure" of his Iraq policies.
"If the American forces leave, they will lose everything. And if they stay, they will bleed to death," he argued.
Note: I dispute the assertion that "[i]f the American forces leave, they will lose everything." We'd at least start recovering from W. We'd stop bleeding $100Bn/year. We'd no longer be part of the problem.
[For what it's worth: W's apocalyptic vision of Iraq if American forces leave is perfectly consonant with al-Zawahri's claim that by leaving America would lose everything.]
Stop the madness!
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