John Nichols nails it here!
It's a historic tragedy that the majority of Americans were too ignorant to know this from the start. And the U.S. will pay for that ignorance for many years to come.
"To hear the president tell it, the U.S. went to Iraq to combat bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Saddam Hussein and his Baathist Party cadres were a lot of things, but they were never comrades, colleagues or hosts to the adherents of what Bush referred to in his speech as "Islamic radicalism," "militant jihadism" or "Islamo-fascism."
If any individuals on the planet feared and hated al-Qaida, it was Saddam and his allies. The Iraqi Baathists were thugs, to be sure, but they were secularist thugs. Indeed, many of the most brutal acts of oppression carried out by the Iraqi regime targeted Islamic militants and governments aligned with the fundamentalists. The eight-year war between Iraq and Iran pitted the soldiers of Saddam's secular nationalism against the armies of the Ayatollah Khomeini's radical vision of Islam.
...The president who argued that the U.S. must continue to occupy Iraq in order to prevent the spread of terrorism has instead contributed to it, according to the head of his own CIA. Now, George Bush argues for staying the course.
Perhaps Osama bin Laden would agree with that strategy.
But the American people are wising up.
The latest Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll tells us that only 32 percent approve of Bush's handling of the war. A remarkable 59 percent now say that the invasion was a mistake. And an even more remarkable 63 percent say they want to see some or all U.S. troops withdrawn".
Republicans should not be leading this country...it doesn't get any simpler than that...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Bush Created Terror Mess He Describes
John Nichols nails it here!
It's a historic tragedy that the majority of Americans were too ignorant to know this from the start. And the U.S. will pay for that ignorance for many years to come.
"To hear the president tell it, the U.S. went to Iraq to combat bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Saddam Hussein and his Baathist Party cadres were a lot of things, but they were never comrades, colleagues or hosts to the adherents of what Bush referred to in his speech as "Islamic radicalism," "militant jihadism" or "Islamo-fascism."
If any individuals on the planet feared and hated al-Qaida, it was Saddam and his allies. The Iraqi Baathists were thugs, to be sure, but they were secularist thugs. Indeed, many of the most brutal acts of oppression carried out by the Iraqi regime targeted Islamic militants and governments aligned with the fundamentalists. The eight-year war between Iraq and Iran pitted the soldiers of Saddam's secular nationalism against the armies of the Ayatollah Khomeini's radical vision of Islam.
...The president who argued that the U.S. must continue to occupy Iraq in order to prevent the spread of terrorism has instead contributed to it, according to the head of his own CIA. Now, George Bush argues for staying the course.
Perhaps Osama bin Laden would agree with that strategy.
But the American people are wising up.
The latest Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll tells us that only 32 percent approve of Bush's handling of the war. A remarkable 59 percent now say that the invasion was a mistake. And an even more remarkable 63 percent say they want to see some or all U.S. troops withdrawn".
Republicans should not be leading this country...it doesn't get any simpler than that...
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