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Iraq war fuels Islamic radicals: retired U.S. general« Threa

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Iraq war fuels Islamic radicals: retired U.S. general« Threa

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Iraq war fuels Islamic radicals: retired U.S. general« Thread Started on Sept 25, 2006, 7:02pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Iraq war fuels Islamic radicals: retired U.S. generalMon Sep 25, 2006 7:25pm ETread at source: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The conduct of the Iraq war fueled Islamic fundamentalism across the globe and created more enemies for the United States, a retired U.S. Army general who served in the conflict said on Monday.The views of retired Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste buttressed an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies, which intelligence officials said concluded the war had inspired Islamist extremists and made the militant movement more dangerous.The Iraq conflict, which began in March 2003, made "America arguably less safe now than it was on September 11, 2001," Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, told a hearing on the war called by U.S. Senate Democrats. "If we had seriously laid out and considered the full range of requirements for the war in Iraq, we would likely have taken a different course of action that would have maintained a clear focus on our main effort in Afghanistan, not fueled Islamic fundamentalism across the globe, and not created more enemies than there were insurgents," Batiste said.
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