Spate of London bombings leaves up to 50 dead; 1,000 injured

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Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London Tube and three double-decker buses at the morning rush hour today, leaving up to 50 dead, according to a senior French official. British Sky TV said the attacks killed at least 45 and injured more than 1,000. Some local reports have put the death toll at 90.

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And from Think Progress

Rice: Iraq War Has Not Fueled Terrorism



Condoleezza Rice was interviewed today by the BBC and she was asked a very good question:

BEALE: Do you think that Britain and America in Iraq are perhaps fighting the wrong war? They went to war to remove physical weapons of mass destruction but partly Saddam Hussein as well, but that hasn’t stopped the terrorist attacks in Western cities like Madrid, in London today. It seems to have fueled those attacks.

RICE: Oh, I don’t think that anything is being fueled here except the fact that the terrorists are finally being confronted. Again, they were — they’ve been doing this now for a couple of decades and for a while the world, going all the way back to Beirut and going back to the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 or the attacks on American Embassies in 1998, this has been going on for a while.

Rice’s response underscores the fundamental problem with the Bush’s attitude and approach to the war on terror. The president and his closest advisors refuse to acknowledge – no matter what happens – that the Iraq war has precipitated more terrorist attacks and more terrorists. This has been confirmed by the CIA and the State Department.

The decision to make the Iraq war the central component of the war on terror was a mistake. Rice should spend less time spinning past mistakes and more time creating a new strategy.

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And finally I wanted to add this from Dkos.

Bush was wrong. Again

George Bush

THE PRESIDENT: We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.

Well, that didn't work out quite as planned, did it?

Semper Fi

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