Fighting them over there?

The mantra that we are fighting them over there so as not to fight them here has just been sunk

The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters and the tactics they have honed in the insurgency to neighboring countries and beyond, according to American, European and Middle Eastern government officials and interviews with militant leaders in Lebanon, Jordan and London.

Some of the fighters appear to be leaving as part of the waves of Iraqi refugees crossing borders that government officials acknowledge they struggle to control. But others are dispatched from Iraq for specific missions. In the Jordanian airport plot, the authorities said they believed that the bomb maker flew from Baghdad to prepare the explosives for Mr. Darsi.

The Bush administration has turned Iraq into a terrorist academy. Bin Laden couldn’t have asked for more.

You’re doin a heck of a job Dubya.

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