Bush insults Americans by still linking Iraq to 9/11 attacks

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/OPINION02/609220359/1070/OPINION

I arrived home on the evening of 9/11/06 to a speech on television by President George W. Bush, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers.

After tributes to the fallen heroes and courageous survivors of that day, the president launched into a disconnected and surreal defense of the war against Iraq.

"The United States could not risk the threat posed by Iraq after 9/11," the president said. He went on to defend the American attack on Iraq as essential to homeland security.

The argument carried some water in the aftermath of 9/11, but the president's continued insistence, in the face of contrary evidence, that Iraq was connected to the 9/11 attacks is difficult to swallow. The president's constant revisionism five years after the fact -- and after the facts are even clearer -- is an insult to Americans.


Edit: This was written by a two-time Bush voter.

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1. The real outrage (not Chavez)

This is what our dems should be rushing to the microphone to talk about along with detainee torture and NSA spying without constitutional protections.