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Giuliani: U.S. 'Too Consumed With Iraq'
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said the U.S. is distracted by the conflict in Iraq and is not focusing enough on al-Qaida’s resurgence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "I said it a long time ago – America is too consumed with Iraq,” the former New York City mayor told USA Today during a campaign visit to Iowa. "We’ve got to be patient and committed [in Iraq], but we’ve got to multitask . . . We’ve got to talk about Iran – Iran is more dangerous than Iraq – and we have to get the job done in Afghanistan and in Pakistan.” Giuliani said the U.S. should do more to capture Osama bin Laden and dismantle al-Qaida operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. That effort could include air strikes on al-Qaida targets in northern Pakistan, according to Giuliani, even if they might alienate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
Story Continues Below "Musharraf is important to us to the extent that he helps us remove this existential threat to him and to us,” he said in Thursday’s USA Today interview. Giuliani’s comments followed the release on Tuesday of the National Intelligence Estimate warning that al-Qaida had strengthened its operations over the past two years and posed a "heightened threat” to the U.S.
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