Iraq a terrorist Disneyland if U.S. goes: expert

Oh boy! Because a non Western expert says this, the politicians are going to listen, finally? The CIA, NSC, MI6, MI5, Pentagon, etc have been saying this for years! I know that the Leftists want the West to abandon the Arabs to the terrorists, but that is just not practical. The US has abandoned too many allies to a violent fate because of Leftist pressure. I am glad that President Bush understands that the US will have no allies if we leave any more. He has been slipping on many things, but not the most important thing - the Global War on Terror.

Iraq a terrorist Disneyland if U.S. goes: expert | Politics | Reuters: "A U.S. troop pullout from Iraq would leave the country as a potent launchpad for international terrorism and Washington would be forced to go back in within a couple of years, a leading al Qaeda expert said on Tuesday.

Rohan Gunaratna told a security conference at Lloyd's of London insurance market that Iraq, like Afghanistan in the 1990s, would become a 'terrorist Disneyland' where al Qaeda could build up its strength unchallenged.

If U.S., British and other coalition troops withdrew from Iraq in the next year, he said, 'certainly the scale of attacks that would be mounted inside Iraq, and using Iraq as a launching pad to strike other Western countries -- countries in Europe, North America - would become such that after two or three years, the U.S. forces will have to go back to Iraq.'"