U.S. Role in Iraq Threatens Security

9/11 demonstrated that intervening where you don't belong is going to blowback on you sooner or later. At least, that's what it showed most of us. To Bush's handlers, it wasn't a lesson; it was an opportunity. Though it was sold to a frightened, confused public as retaliation for the death of nearly 2,000 innocent Americans, it was later justified as a pre-emptive invasion to keep Americans safe.

But that was disproven, too:

Indeed, an April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that “the war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world whose numbers may be increasing faster than the United States and its allies can reduce the threat,” and that “the Iraq conflict has become the ‘cause célèbre’ for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.”

In other words, instead of stopping the brutal interventions that led to 9/11, the Bushies decided to toss even more fuel on the fire.