I dreamt I saw Ho Chi Minh...

As all of us old enough to remember recall, the Viet Cong struck America repeatedly with violent terrorist attacks after we fled Saigon in 1975...

Wait...no, they didn't.

The most honorable Froomkin holds forth on the analogous claims regarding Iraq.

White House Watch -- News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration - washingtonpost.com

But is Bush right? Will they follow us home if we leave?

No. At least not according to a story in Saturday's Washington Post by Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus.

DeYoung and Pincus write: "Al-Qaeda in Iraq is the United States' most formidable enemy in that country [Prophetic note: this is debatable at best]. But unlike Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization in Pakistan, U.S. intelligence officials and outside experts believe, the Iraqi branch poses little danger to the security of the U.S. homeland.

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