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Bush in full spin mode over Iraq failure
Did you know that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the other dozen or so Islamic dictatorships in the mid-east are "moderate" governments. Me neither. But that's how President Bush described the theocracies that suppress their own people, steal their national oil wealth, and torture political opposition.
Hey, if that's what it takes to justify the quagmire that is the Iraq War, so be it:Bush said Islamic extremists hope to use "the vacuum created by an American retreat" to gain control of Iraq and use it as a base for launching attacks against other countries.
Bush's comments came during a speech today at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., but it could have been made anytime during the 2004 Presidential campaign. Because, you see, nothing's changed in Bush's world in the last 12 months.
"The murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our new century," he said. "Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy teaches that innocent individuals can be sacrificed to serve a political vision."
"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 asserted.
He also talked about the 10 al Qaeda plots foiled since 9/11, but most of them are so secret we'll have to just trust him on that one. He said the terrorists are trying to set up an empire, with Iraq as the new Rome, but didn't distinguish between the Islamofascists who attacked New York City four years ago, and the native Iraqis who want their country back today.
What a difference four years makes. There was a time when the whole world seemed to know who Bush was. Not so these days. At one point, Bush seemed to be channeling Winston Churchill when he said "Against such an enemy, there's only one effective response: We never back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory." At another, he was Texas Air National Guard Flight Lt. Bush who told us "There's always a temptation in the middle of a long struggle to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world..."
I can't believe we've got three more years of this wantwit. We really needed to win that last election.
6.10.05 22:42