President Bush repeatedly echoes the same cliché:
“We’re fighting them (terrorists) over there so we don’t have to fight them here.”
This makes no sense whatsoever. How did this invasion of a sovereign nation, supposedly to uncover an arsenal of WMD, turn into a global war on terrorism? If we end the war tomorrow and redeploy all our troops, are we to believe that all the terrorists in Iraq will hop on a plane and come to America? How does the war in Iraq prevent terrorist attacks elsewhere? This rationale to continue the war just doesn’t make sense. Terrorism is a global issue. Terrorists live in virtually every major country in the world. There were few, if any terrorists in Iraq before we invaded this country. The growing numbers of insurgents are there because we’re there. How do we measure victory in Iraq? What events need to take place before we declare victory in Iraq and proclaim that we have won the global war on terrorism. Am I the only one who doesn't get it?
2006-11-02
03:48:43
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