Weekend Question 3: How Timely Is This Post from The Anchoress?

ANSWER: Dead on.
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“None of this would be happening if Bush had not invaded Iraq” (HT Lorie at Wizbang).
Where have we heard THAT ONE before?

Why, just last Thursday, as noted at “Al-Reuters Explains It All“:

• First, wee-hours writer Adrian Croft (link is to saved copy at my host, for fair use and discussion purposes, for when the original story moves) connected the disrupted (I’m not going to say “foiled” — yet) UK airplanes bomb plot to the failure of the UK and the US to insist on an Israeli ceasefire.

• Six hours later (story has already moved; link to is copy saved at host), Croft and co-writer Michael Holden added UK involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as “reasons” for the plot. Oh, they didn’t actually SAY that the events noted were linked; they just gratuitously threw in paragraphs about them and allowed a reader unitiated in the biased ways of Reuters to make the linkages on their own.

• A 6PM update by Holden (also saved here for when the story moves) at least managed to avoid speculation about the motivations of those caught, and instead referred to a prior Al Qaeda announcement:
  

  Last month, al Qaeda called on Muslims to fight those who backed Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and warned of attacks unless U.S. and British forces pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Well, that’s a little better. And although such “calls to fight” come so often they’re barely noticed any more, Holden at least appears to have moved to a factual statement.

Anchoress’s entry is a perfect riposte to the Reuters writers, namely over a dozen acts of terror carried out before the Iraq invasion. Ann Coulter’s July 26 column has a longer list.

So let’s get real: In the historical context laid out by The Anchoress and Coulter (consistently and completely ignored by Croft and Holden), how can anyone believe that withdrawing support for Israel and removing all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan would cause Al Qaida to leave the UK and US alone?

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UPDATE: Porkopolis posted on this at almost the same time.