In case our own NIE wasn’t evidence enough that the theory Bush refuses to believe holds water actually carries it quite niftily, a research paper prepared for Britain’s Ministry of Defense has found that "The war in Iraq...has acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists across the Muslim world. Iraq has served to radicalise an already disillusioned youth and al-Qaeda has given them the will, intent, purpose and ideology to act."

Poodle-Boy continues to deny “a link between military action in Afghanistan and Iraq and Muslim radicalisation and extremism in the UK and abroad.”