Bush is Protecting Us From Bin Laden Again

The Bush machine threw in some new "recently declassified" information today to convince us that the war in Iraq is justified and necessary.  This intelligence goes into vague details about Bin Laden sending his people into Iraq to plan for an al Qaeda settlement.  Speaking at a commencement address (what any of this has to do with a college graduation I have no idea) at the Coast Guard Academy today, the President made several comments about the war and his newly unveiled intelligence:

"There's a reason bin Laden sent one of his most experiencedparamilitary leaders to Iraq," Bush said. "He believes that if al Qaedacan drive us out, they can establish Iraq as a new terrorist sanctuary."

The president acknowledged that critics "question whether the fight in Iraq is part of the war on terror."

He said "the best way to protect our people is to take the fight to the enemy ... so we do not have to face them at home."

Thepresident also made a comparison between Iraq and the Vietnam War,saying, "There are many differences between the two conflicts, but onestands out above all. The enemy in Vietnam had neither the intent northe capability to strike our homeland. ... The enemy in Iraq does."

The article, posted Wednesday afternoon at about 2:15pm EST at cnn.com, details more about the Bin Laden connection to the new Iraq.

I think as politicians, the Republican party is making their best efforts at diverting the topic from logic or they're absolutely failing at putting 2 and 2 together.  The reason terrorists are flocking to Iraq isn't because we invaded one of their terrorist states, it's because we created a new terrorist state.  The President's intelligence about Bin Laden setting up shop in Iraq doesn't rationalize the good we could still do, it illustrates the harm we've already done.

Comments

[George]

So if we never invaded Iraq we wouldn't be there to try to prevent Bin Laden's people from taking advantage of the vaccuum we created by invading. It would have been so shortsighted to just focus 150,000 soldiers just capturing Bin Laden.

I dont know why Bush is worried anyway: no terrorist state will ever be able to compete with his own.

[Erick]

Kudos for having balls, George. America is a wonderful country and I am very proud to be a part of it, but it's ridiculous to assume the blind patriotism that allows for us to be bullies and tyrrants to the rest of the world under an ideal as oxymoronic as what we're doing: imposing freedom. As far as I always understood the nature of "want," you don't have to force people to take something they want.

[George]

Bush: Hey people do you want to be free?

Iraq: Well, that's a pretty complicated ques....

Bush: Good. You have no choice. I have 40000 tanks on backorder and KBR needs to eat.