Rep. Jane Harman :Campaign Rhetoric Won't Fix Iraq

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I was surprised to read in today's newspaper that the President used a campaign speech yesterday to attack this 5'3" grandmother - because I said that he got it backwards: fighting them there may make it more likely that we'll fight them here. The President believes that the jihadist fight can be contained in Iraq. But just tell that to the people of Jakarta, Madrid, London, Amman and Mumbai - all of whom have seen massive terrorist attacks in their cities since our invasion of Iraq.

The terrorist threat is growing more dangerous. But instead of addressing it, we are playing politics with the issue, passing laws that won't make us safer.

There is a better way. And it starts with ending what Bob Woodward's new book calls The State of Denial.

This morning, President Bush said, "You do not create terrorism by fighting terrorism." That's a good sound-bite. But respectfully, Mr. President, your own intelligence professionals have concluded that your failed strategy in Iraq has exacerbated the terrorist threat.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. jr has been fixing everything else with campaign rhetoric for so

long that he figures that it'll work on Iraq too. Trouble is, his opposition in Iraq don't speak his language.