Iraq was, and is, part of the war on terror
Certain congressional leaders and presidential candidates repeating the mantra for audiences around the country: ``Iraq is not part of the war on terror.''
The war on terror ``has been mainly a war on US in terms of both erosion of our own democratic freedoms in this country and as well an enormous step up in military and intelligence spending in the US,'' says Dave Lindorff, investigative journalist and founder of This Can't Be Happening.