Akkam’s Razor

This is what happens when you let reality makers be deciders…

From the LA Times:

White House spokesman Peter Watkins declined to talk specifically about the National Intelligence Estimate, a classified analysis that represents a consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.

The report, delivered to policymakers in April, is the first of its kind since the Iraq war's start in March 2003. In it, the agencies concluded that the war had damaged the U.S. effort to defeat global terrorism. They said that the war was spreading radicalism from Iraq throughout the Middle East and that the longer it continued, the more likely it was to provide fresh training grounds for future terrorist plots.

But the White House view, according to Watkins, is that much of the radicals' rage at the United States and Israel goes back generations and is not linked to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

"Their hatred for freedom and liberty did not develop overnight," Watkins said. "Those seeds were planted decades ago."

Falling back on the old "they hate us for our freedom, huh?  Not only that but we get ANOTHER rationale for invading Iraq (not 9/11, liberating them, bringing them democracy, human rights, or oil).  This time, its:

He said the administration had sought in Iraq to root out hotbeds of terrorism before they grew. "Instead of waiting while they plot and plan attacks to kill innocent Americans, the United States has taken the initiative to fight back," Watkins said.

I got nothing. 

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