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The Bush regime has since 2001 been telling us that they are starting wars to protect us from terrorism. I pointed out some time ago that far from being a force against terrorism, the U.S. government is itself terrorist, and the so-called War on Terror™ will only create more enemies and more terrorism against us. They went ahead with the wars.

Then terrorism went way up according to the National Counterterrorism Center, so the government stopped producing terrorism statistics to avoid embarrassment. Presumably terrorism kept increasing despite this decisive action against it.

When reporters ask the obvious question, whether terrorism has been increased because of the actions of the U.S. and its allies, the response is to dodge the question and condemn the questioners as somehow sympathetic to the terrorists.

Now comes Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, who has perhaps the most complete database on suicide attacks in the world. His research shows that contrary to the Bush regime’s propaganda,

• Suicide bombers are targeting those they see as foreign occupiers and their collaborators.
• Three quarters of the attackers are from Iraq or from Sunni-dominated states bordering Iraq (i.e., not Iran). Indeed there have been no confirmed Shiite suicide bombers at all.
• More than 50 percent of the targets were military.
• Hundreds of bombers have already laid down their lives in suicide bombings, but the supply of future suicide bombers is getting larger, not smaller. Indeed, most of the bombers are “walk-in volunteers,” not people who’ve been carefully brainwashed by a terrorist organization.

And, not surprisingly, suicide bombing is increasing. Pape notes that:

Since our invasion, suicide terrorism has been essentially doubling in Iraq every year that we’ve had more or less 150,000 American combat soldiers stationed there….

Before the invasion there hadn’t been a suicide bombing in Iraq’s history.