Unfortunately, the majority of Americans read the headlines in the newspaper and keep walking. They turn on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN or MSNBC and hear the story of Iraq told from a defeatist slant.
Needless to say those of us who read deeper into the story. Those of us who listen to conservative talk radio, watch Fox News or search the internet for the truth, are able to come to a more realistic conclusion.
To no one’s surprise, all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies agree that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network poses the main threat of terrorist attack on the United States. That’s the message of the National Intelligence Estimate released last week. The same conspiracy of murderous fanatics that inflicted a terrorist Pearl Harbor on us Sept. 11, 2001, is still dedicated to hitting America again, if possible with the chemical, biological or nuclear weapons of mass murder.
That much, most Americans already knew or assumed. What they might not know is that al-Qaeda’s franchise operation in Iraq, formally known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, or AQI, is also currently the chief threat to U.S. and coalition forces there and to the democratically elected Iraqi government.
