WH logic: Iraq invasion created terrorist army; we must stay and fight it

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT editorial: The Fine Art of Declassification
Published: September 27, 2006

It’s hard to think of a president and an administration more devoted to secrecy than President Bush and his team. Except, that is, when it suits Mr. Bush politically to give the public a glimpse of the secrets. And so, yesterday, he ordered the declassification of a fraction of a report by United States intelligence agencies on the global terrorist threat....

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Mr. Bush decided to release this small, selected chunk of the report in reaction to an article on the intelligence assessment that appeared in The Times over the weekend. As a defense of his policies, it serves only to highlight the maddening circular logic that passes for a White House rationale. It goes like this: The invasion of Iraq has created an entire new army of terrorists who will be emboldened by an American withdrawal. Therefore, the United States has to stay indefinitely and keep fighting those terrorists.

By that logic, the more the United States fights, the longer the war stretches on.

It’s obvious why Mr. Bush did not want this report out, and why it is taking so long for the intelligence agencies to complete another report, solely on Iraq, that was requested by Congress in late July. It’s not credible that more time is needed to do the job. In 2002, the intelligence agencies completed a report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in less time. Mr. Bush also made selected passages of that report public to buttress his arguments for war with Iraq, most of which proved to be based on fairy tales.

Then, Mr. Bush wanted Americans to focus on how dangerous Saddam Hussein was, and not on the obvious consequences of starting a war in the Middle East. Now, he wants voters to focus on how dangerous the world is, and not on his utter lack of ideas for what to do about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/opinion/27wed1.html

[Erika]

1. W was wrong to attack Iraq and we need to get out of there

How hard is that to understand?

Just review www.icasualties.org for the pain W chooses to inflict on our troops and innocent Iraqis.

[Solly Mack]

2. Handy init?

the more they fight - the more terrorists they create - the longer the war stretches on


creating a long term vicious cycle

Even if withdrawel were to be accomplished tomorrow, the anger over what America has done will not just go away

and if we don't leave...it's still bad and will get worse

Bush has made the world far less safe and it wasn't an accident or an unintended consequence







Bush accused others of leaking info that favored a certain way of thinking and called it "politics"...then Bush "declassifies" certain things that would favor his excuses

sigh...

[sweetheart]

3. get rid of the republicans...

and the anger will subsdide... perhaps they could move to iraq to live their dream
of living in a bush democracy.