Cheney's AIPAC Speech: The Hell With Logic (LARRY C JOHNSON)

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Cheney's AIPAC Speech: The Hell With Logic

Try to create a logical outline of Cheney's speech tonight to AIPAC. Just try. But, what does logic have to do with propaganda anyway:

" The most common myth is that Iraq has nothing to do with the global war on terror. Opponents of our military action there have called Iraq a diversion from the real conflict, a distraction from the business of fighting and defeating bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. We hear this over and over again, not as an argument but as an assertion meant to close off argument.

Yet the critics conveniently disregard the words of bin Laden himself. The most serious issue today for the whole world, he has said, is this third world war that is raging in Iraq. He calls it a destiny between infidelity and Islam. He said the whole world is watching this war and that it will end in victory and glory or misery and humiliation. And in words directed at the American people, bin Laden declares, "The war is for you or for us to win. If we win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever."

This leader of al Qaeda has referred to Baghdad as the capital of the Caliphate. He has also said, and I quote, "Success in Baghdad will be success for the United States. Failure in Iraq is the failure of the United States. Their defeat in Iraq will mean defeat in all their wars."

Obviously, the terrorists have no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq. They have not called it a distraction or a diversion from their war against the United States. They know it is a central front in that war and it's where they've chosen to make a stand. Our Marines are fighting al Qaeda terrorists today in Anbar province. U.S. and Iraqi forces recently killed al Qaeda terrorists in Baghdad who were responsible for numerous car bomb attacks. Iraq's relevance to the war on terror simply could not be more plain.

Here at home, that makes one thing above all very clear. If you support the war on terror, then it only makes sense to support it where the terrorists are fighting us." (Applause.)

We're fighting Al Qaeda in the "capital of the Caliphate" because they're there. And they're there because we're there. And we're there because they came there because we were there? Forget, for a moment, any earnest confusion. It's his certainty, in defiance of historical chronology and logic, that we must admire.

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1. Their circular logic blows me away....

the terrorists weren't there, so we invaded there, and now they've come to fight us there, because we're there. Using that logic, if we leave there wouldn't they leave there as well? Because we wouldn't be there? :banghead: