How soon they forget

Despite what many people (predominately on the left of the political spectrum) would lead you too believe, not all the terrorist problems facing the world today can be tracked back to President Bush or Prime Minister Blair. As is often the case, they continually ignore history to try and prove a point.

It's nice to see a world leader, in this case Australian PM John Howard, help point out the fact that terrorists existed prior to the war in Iraq and will continue long after the Western forces leave. Howard provides one of the best 'bitch slaps' (for lack of a better term) to all those terrorist appeasers out there who think that if the West would just get out of Iraq then the world would be ok.

The Anchoress, building on Howard's statement, points out just a few more terrorists acts that case before the Iraq War. An interesting read. As she and Michelle point out, you can check out a video of Howard's comments over at Trey Jackson's site.

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the original link.