Bush's favorite soundbite "If we were to leave Iraq our enemies would follow us here" is total bullshit. So say these experts.

“There are very few foreign fighters who are going to be leaving the area because they don’t have the skills or languages that would give them access to the United States,” said Benjamin, who served as the National Security Council’s director for transnational threats from 1998 to 1999. “I’m not saying events in Iraq aren’t going to embolden jihadists. But I think the president’s formulations call for a leap of faith.”

"The war in Iraq isn't preventing terrorist attacks on America," said one U.S. intelligence official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he's contradicting the president and other top officials. "If anything, that - along with the way we've been treating terrorist suspects - may be inspiring more Muslims to think of us as the enemy."

You know this is another of those statements by this administration which never made any sense to me, but which seems to scare the shit out of many Republican supporters. Bunch of idiots!

By the way this does not bode well for John McCain either since he has been throwing this line around quite a bit since he started running for President. This plus his embarrassing walking tour of the Iraqi markets should probably put his candidacy into the dustbin of history.