* ties Iraq War to WWII

[DaveSZ]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9588-2004Jun2.html


Bush Speech Ties Iraq War to WWII, Cold War
Address is Second in a Series on Iraq
By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 2, 2004; 8:07 PM


COLORADO SPRINGS, June 2 -- A day after the formation of an interim government in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday that the effort to defeat terrorists in the Middle East is the epicenter of a global "clash of political visions" that echoes World War II and other epic 20th-Century struggles against totalitarianism in Europe.



In a commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Bush said, "We are denying the terrorists the ideological victories they seek by working for freedom and reform in the broader Middle East."

The speech was at once a plea for patience with the escalating violence and faltering reconstruction efforts in Iraq -- and a sober warning about the ongoing fight against terrorism. Bush did not lay out concrete new policies but essentially provided a framework for a U.S. foreign policy after the Iraqi conflict subsidies.

"Overcoming terrorism and bringing greater freedom to the nations of the Middle East is the work of decades," Bush said. During the past three years, he said, "We've seen terrorist violence in an arc from Morocco to Spain to Turkey to Russia to Uzbekistan to Pakistan to India to Thailand to Indonesia. Yet the center of the conflict, the platform for their global expansion, the region they seek to remake in their image is the broader Middle East."

[donhakman]

1. Don't forget how WW II ended...

This is a warning.

[DemoTex]

2. Bu$h knows that he has started WWIII

It's all part of his plan.

[seabeyond]

3. he is desperate.

putting it out for his freepes to say over and over and over so people will buy it. no on is going to buy it. this is no feel at all to a wwII. grasping for straws looking his foolish self