W the Unifier calls for more UNITY!

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Bush Calls for Unity Behind War on Terrorism
Reuters


By Steve Holland

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (Reuters) - President Bush , marking the anniversary this week of the start of the Iraq war, appealed on Thursday for international unity behind the war on terrorism amid U.S. concerns over plans by a new government in Spain to withdraw troops from Iraq.

"This terrorist enemy will never be appeased because death is their banner and their cause," Bush told thousands of U.S. troops who returned from Iraq last month.



See, now, this pisses me off. Iraq may have been a bad place prior to our invasion, but it wasn't a staging ground for Al Quaeda. The only reason it is now is because we created conditions ripe for them. Chaos and an easily targetable American presence. Every blow they strike in Iraq is a blow against us, becuase we made this mess, and we can't protect anyone there.

We brought the war on terror to Iraq. Before we overthrew Sadaam they were two totally separate things, at best tangientially related. We decided that Iraq was way more of a priority than Al Quaeda, and we decided we wanted Hussein way more than we wanted Bin Laden.

And now that Spain and Poland are getting itchy because mkaybe we lied to them about our reasons for going there? That's backing out on the war on terror?

Hello! We don't own them, and if they don't want any part of our mess anymore it's hardly surprising. The only thing that surprised me is that the citizens of England haven't handed Tony Blair his hat.


AL QUAEDA committed 9/11. How Bush still gets away with saying there's no difference between Al Quadea and Iraq is beyond me, and worse yet, he's making it come true. By overthrowing Sadaam, he basically built a house for Al Quaeda where they could hurt us without the bothersome commute.