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Thompson: ‘The Whole’
Middle East ‘Will Become Nuclearized’ If We Redeploy
From Iraq
Think
Progress
Wednesday September 5, 2007
Former Sen. Fred Thompson has regularly fearmongered about terrorist
threats. In June, he warned that undocumented immigration could
lead to “suitcase
bombs” from Cuba and alleged that Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid’s (D-NV) call to redeploy from Iraq was “encouraging
our enemies.”
Taking his fearmongering to new heights, yesterday on Hannity
and Colmes, Thompson claimed that withdrawal from Iraq would lead
to “the whole” Middle East going “nuclear”:
If we leave [Iraq] under bad circumstances, we’re going
to have a haven down there for terrorists. The whole
area, I’m afraid, will become nuclearized. The
Sunni countries are looking at what Iran is doing. And if we
can’t help with stability in that part of the world, they’re
going to help themselves, and they’re going to
go nuclear.
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Thompson added al Qaeda was actively seeking nuclear weapons
as reason to stay in Iraq. “We have al Qaeda out there we
know trying to get nuclear weapons,” he claimed. “We
have 40 countries that have fissile material that could make a
bomb.”
Thompson’s fearmongering is reminiscent of the Bush administration’s
pre-war attempts to conflate weapons of mass destruction, Saddam
Hussein, and al Qaeda into one. In his State of the Union address
in 2003, two months prior to the invasion, President Bush declared:
Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications,
and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam
Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al
Qaeda. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he
could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help
them develop their own.
In reality, al Qaeda
never chased the nuclear weapons that Hussein didn’t have.
The U.S. presence in Iraq is fueling
al Qaeda’s growth, not preventing it.
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