LAT: As War Shifts, So Does the Message

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Tuesday retooled his original argument for the Iraq war, justifying the U.S. military presence there as the solution to a problem that critics say the war itself caused.

More than two years ago, Bush argued that Saddam Hussein's control over Iraq could make the nation a haven for terrorists. But in his nationally televised speech, Bush asserted that the tumult that has followed Hussein's removal created the same threat.

In the lead-up to the war, Bush presented the invasion of Iraq primarily as a means of preventing the Iraqi dictator from providing nuclear, biological or chemical weapons to terrorists.

After coalition forces failed to find evidence of such weapons, and several investigations did not uncover meaningful links between Hussein and Al Qaeda, the president increasingly stressed the possibility that creating a democracy in Iraq could encourage democratic reform across the Middle East.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050629/ts_latimes/aswarshiftssodoesthemessage

[DeepModem Mom]

1. kick

[Spazito]

2. Good article

Thanks for posting the link.

[maddezmom]

4. you're welcome...

:hi:

[fishwax]

3. the solution to a problem that critics say the war itself caused

I might add that not only is it a problem caused by the war, it's a problem that critics of the war knew the war would cause and predicted (way back in the summer/fall of 2002) that the war would cause.

How can these jerks have any credibility left?

[davhill]

5. It doesn't much matter

What the LA Times, NY Times, or Washington Post say. As long as Fox news, CNN and MS-NBC keep on showing instant news without any retrospection or analysis people with short memories will tend to think we only went to Iraq to fight terrorists.

[mom cat]

6. One more newspaper telling the truth.

[dbt]

7. Let me break it down even further:

WE ARE THE PROBLEM IN IRAQ.