Abandoning his practice of only rarely mentioning al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Bush repeatedly quoted him and purported terrorist letters, recordings and documents to make his case that terrorists have broad totalitarian ambitions and believe the war in Iraq is a key theater in a wider struggle.
…"Iraq is not a distraction in their war against America" but the "central battlefield where this war will be decided," Bush said in an address before the Military Officers Association of America.
The president’s remarks came hours after the White House released its updated plan for combating terrorism. The document describes many successes in the war on terrorism, but warns that the nation faces an evolving threat from small terrorist networks and al-Qaeda, which is as much an ideology as a terrorist network. The document calls the administration’s policy of spreading freedom and democracy the best means of countering that threat over the long haul.
"America is safer, but we are not yet safe," the document concludes.
I find "What is he talking about?" echoing in my mind again like it has so many times during his reign. "Iraq is not a distraction in their war against America" but the "central battlefield where this war will be decided." If you heard this sentence and didn’t know the story, you’d think that al Qaeda started a war against America by invading Iraq and we went to their rescue. That is so far from what happened that it stretches one’s mind to the limit to imagine how he got there.
Insofar as I know, what happened is that al Qaeda attacked America directly. Based on some preconceived [and mistaken ideas] pushed by some armchair theoriticians in crackpot think tanks, A.E.I. and P.N.A.C., Bush and his Administration concluded that a Iraq was backing them up and we invaded Iraq under false pretenses. That wasn’t correct, the part about the Iraqi/al Qaeda link. Easily "taking" Iraq, we found that Islamic fanatics within and from without Iraq flocked there to have "War on America" and religious "Civil War" fun. They’re winning in their peculiar way by blowing themselves up along with American children and innocent Iraqis with great regularity. "What is he talking about?"
Then we hear "…the administration’s policy of spreading freedom and democracy" is "the best means of countering that threat over the long haul." How do you spread freedom and democracy to a country where about 100% of the people are Moslems of one of two kinds who are fighting for supremacy, and who do that with murder and suicide? In that context, what does "spreading freedom and democracy" actually mean? Where is one shred of evidence that there’s anything "best" about such a plan in such a place?" "What is he talking about?" What he says is a belief held by very few people in this universe, a belief that has proved itself uniformly wrong, not a policy for our country.
"Out, damned spot!"
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