Every week, in Iraq, there are now 800 attacks

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1359828.ece

President George Bush has shifted his approach to Iraq in an effort to shore up faltering public support for the war, three-and-a-half years after the invasion.

No longer does he stress the benefits of securing peace in Iraq; rather he lays out the perils of failure.

His words have become more grim in recent weeks as he details what he believes would be the consequences of US withdrawal, observers said.

"We can allow the Middle East to continue on its course - on the course it was headed before September the 11th," he said in a speech last week. "And a generation from now, our children will face a region dominated by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. Or we can stop that from happening, by rallying the world to confront the ideology of hate and give the people of the Middle East a future of hope.

[magellan]

1. Give the people of the middle east a future of hope how?

By dropping bombs on them?

The dead have no future. And the survivors are lucky to walk away with anything more than murderous rage.

[INDIA]

3. I don't think it's our military carrying out the 800 attacks.

We aren't the bullies on the block anymore, the natives have filled that position.

[magellan]

4. No, Bush** is justifying further intervention

"We can allow the Middle East to continue on its course - on the course it was headed before September the 11th," he said in a speech last week. "And a generation from now, our children will face a region dominated by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. Or we can stop that from happening, by rallying the world to confront the ideology of hate and give the people of the Middle East a future of hope."

More "war is peace" bs. The philosophy of the bomb.

[joemurphy]

2. Um, George...How do you propose we "win" this?

And if we have no plan (or means) of winning it, why are we there?