Bush's Defense of Iraq War to Coincide with Sept 11 Commemorations

[Rose Siding]

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - For the third time in less than a year and two months before crucial U.S. elections, President George W. Bush is launching a new campaign to counter opposition to the Iraq war with a series of speeches he insists are not political.

Bush will kick off the speeches with an appearance on Thursday at the American Legion annual convention in Salt Lake City and will continue the theme of the Iraq war and national security through mid-September....

The speeches coincide with the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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"My series of speeches, they are not political speeches, they are speeches about the future of this country and they are speeches to make it clear that if we retreat before the job is done, this nation will become in even more jeopardy," Bush said. "These are important times and I would seriously hope people wouldn't politicize these issues that I am going to talk about."

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=13341659&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

Keep talking, fool.

[Critters2]

1. I truly hate this man nt

[Bleacher Creature]

3. That's word for word what I said when I read the OP. nt

[gratuitous]

2. Just a coincidence

Nobody should get the impression that the invasion of Iraq was in any way related to the September 11 attacks. Perish the thought. Nothing's implied here from the timing of the speeches. Nothing political here. Don't politicize this. Or else.

I'm rather hoping that the Democrats politicize the hell out of this; tit for tat, because Bush's speeches are clearly political. Any response should fully include the political dimension of what Bush is doing.

[Monkeyman]

4. Dam Legion the guy who cut their benefits what a bunch of dim wits

[pinto]

5. It's infuriating, but I think the Admin's ploy to cast their policy as

an idealogical based movement, lacking specifics, is wearing thin. And as the rhetoric grows more shrill, I think a lot of everyday, you and me, Americans will grow more fearful of the Admin's "global" intent - and the consequences - than the threat of an isolated act of terrorism.

The isolated terrorist act is a crime in planning, in progress or - as in 9/11 - in fact. The Admin's refusal to take a multinational, coordinated attempt to snip the perps has failed.

Now, Bush says it's a generational struggle against a competing ideology and any assessments will be left to historians.

That's not leadership and that's not acceptable.

IMO, all this is a good counterpoint for Dems. Right at it. The Admin has no identifiable goals or objectives. Or if they *do* they're not telling. The Admin has abandoned the effort to reign in al Qaeda, and that guy Osama.

And in their stand-in fiasco, they have ignored the factionalism that is tearing Iraq apart.

It *is* infuriating, and sad.

(ed for spell)