Time to instill fear, scream 9-11, declare Iraq to be the mother of all battlegrounds against Terra.
Yes, it is time for another "major" speech to be given by our Dear Leader, who these days seems to be fighting a War on Nouns rather than a War on Terror.
CNN:
During a speech billed by the White House as a major policy address, Bush said if U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq, insurgents would "use the vacuum created by an American retreat to gain control of a country, a base from which to launch attacks and conduct their war against nonradical Muslim governments."
Funny that. They were not trying to do that between 2001 and 2003 when they had lost their base in Afghanistan after our invasion. They were not trying to that before 2001. But they are trying to do that now?
"We're not facing a set of grievances" that can be negotiated, Bush said.
"We're facing a radical ideology with an unalterable objective, to enslave whole nations and intimidate the whole world," he said.
You know, like the Communists! Why, if we leave Vietnam now, all of Southeast Asia will fall to Communism, like tumbling dominoes.
Bush indicated that the public is unaware of many anti-terrorism victories. He said the United States and its allies have disrupted 10 al Qaeda terrorism plots since September 11, 2001, including three inside the United States.
The White House said the U.S. incidents Bush was referring to include a 2003 plot to blow up a New York bridge and the case of Jose Padilla, who is being held by the military as an enemy combatant. Padilla is accused of plotting with al Qaeda to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb."
Details of a third case could not be revealed due to their classified nature, the White House said.
Good job Chimpy. Congratulations on doing your job as President of the United States. But tell me, Smirk, how many of those plots were foiled due to our invasion and occupation of Iraq?
Zero.
I personally guarantee my yearly salary that if we were not in Iraq, Osama would be dead now and we would have foiled at least double if not triple such terror plots across the globe. Maybe London, Madrid and Bali would not have happened, if our resources were actually fighting terror instead of occupying a country that never was involved in terror or the 9/11 attacks.
Bush said the war has not caused hatred of the United States among radical Muslims or global terror attacks, but rather is an "excuse" to further the goal of creating an Islamic state across the Mideast.
Hahahahaha. His lies are now becoming funny. They hate us. They really do Bushie. They hate you most of all. Because we are there, in Iraq. Because we were there, in Saudi Arabia.
They don't hate us for our freedoms. They don't hate us because we drink Coke and eat at McDonalds. They hate us because we are there, interfering in their lives for decades. Supporting their oppressors like the Saud family, like the regime in Egypt, like King Hussein and King Abdullah in Jordan. We support these thugs because we need their oil. Their oil makes our rich richer. And the terrorists, who were once actual people like you and me, hate us for it. The average Muslim or Arab on the street hates us. And that is where terrorists come from.
George Bush makes it sound like every Mohammed, Abib, and Faisel in the Arab world have been conspiring for years to establish one large Islamic state bent our on destruction. Utter nonesense. Complete Bullshit. They hate us because we are there. They hate us because we oppress them.
And the scary thing is, Bush thinks that surely we can convince them not to hate us if only we bomb them more, oppress them more, occupy them more. Yeah, then they will see the light.
"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said.
"The hatred of the radicals existed before Iraq was an issue," Bush said. "And it will exist after Iraq is no longer an excuse."
"No act of ours invited the rage of the killers, and no conscience, bribe or act of appeasement will change or limit their plans for murder."
Where is Osama, George? If you are so worried about those terraists, er ah, folks conspiring and organizing, would it not be a good idea to be hunting their leaders? Instead of occuping a country that had nothing to do with terrorism before we got there and that did not ever house the leader we are supposed to be looking for.
Terrorism is a tactic, not a conspiracy. Yes, radical islamic terrorists are evil. They are our enemy. To fight them you need to isolate them. You need to kill them. You need to kill their leaders, like Osama. You don't fight terrorism by swelling their numbers, for surely we will lose.
Responding to the president's address, the Senate Minority Whip, Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said the speech left too many questions about the Iraq war unanswered.
"He owes it to the American people -- and the Democrats are calling on him to tell the American people -- how will this end? How can we measure success? How can we get beyond the generalities of the speech that we heard today?" Durbin said.
"I believe the president has offered America a false choice between resolve and retreat," Durbin said. "The real choice is between the strategy of accountability and more vague generalities. We must move beyond the policies of fear to a forceful commitment to protect the United States and its values."
I included that for all you asses who hate Democrats. Bravo Senator.
Bush's answer to the Senator is simply, "It'll take as long as it takes, it'll cost as much as it costs, and it'll take however many American deaths as it takes!"
The truth of the matter is Bush has to give a speech like this, a "major" speech on Iraq and on the War on Terror, at least every six months to keep the fear up. They have to scare us every so often with warnings on credible threats in our subways, to keep the fear up.
The terrible truth is that this War on Terror, or as I now call it, the War for Fear, is never supposed to end. Ever. War is profitable. Terror is useful. As our Dear Leader said, "The hatred of the radicals existed before Iraq was an issue, and it will exist after Iraq is no longer an excuse."
Even if we leave Iraq, this War for Fear will continue. There will always be another country. Iran, as Scooter Libby so ominously told Judy Miller, can be a threat. Syria. Sudan. It never ends.
There will always be some "radical" who hates America, and who goes about blowing something up to prove it. And we will respond by killing more and invading more. The more people we kill, the more places we invade, the more people will grow up to hate us. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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