Former anti-terror czar Clarke: Staying in Iraq 'helps Al-Qaeda'

[Barrett808]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq "helps Al-Qaeda" and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke said Tuesday.

"I think the best thing that we could do to hit Al-Qaeda's attractiveness to the Muslim world was in fact to get out of Iraq in an orderly way over the course of the next two or three years," Clarke said on CNN.

"Our being in Iraq helps Al-Qaeda," he added.

"We have to beat them in the ideological struggle. Getting out of Iraq will help that."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080528/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryqaedaclarke

[LynnTheDem]

1. Like that's rocket science.

The invasion itself helped al Qaeda.

Just as most the world's experts warned about before george w. bUsh's illegal war of aggression invasion.

[fascisthunter]

2. Somebody Tell This to AM Radio Listeners

They don't have a clue.