Leak of Iraq report created "misimpressions": Bush

[Kadie]

Leak of Iraq report created "misimpressions": Bush
By Caren Bohan
24 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Saturday hit back at critics who have cited an intelligence report as evidence that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorism threat.

Bush said the leaks of the report that appeared in media a week ago created "misimpressions" of its findings. Bush later declassified 3-1/2 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate prepared by the 16 U.S. spy agencies.

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"Some in Washington have selectively quoted from this document to make the case that by fighting the terrorists in Iraq, we are making our people less secure here at home," Bush said.

"This argument buys into the enemy's propaganda that the terrorists attack us because we are provoking them," he said.

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But Bush, in his radio address, pointed to parts of the report that he said back up his case that pulling out of Iraq would only serve to embolden terrorists.

"Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight," the report said.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060930/pl_nm/bush_iraq_dc_1

[DesertRat]

1. So now the Decider is claiming misimpressions

Lord help us all.

[rodeodance]

2. Mr Bush------I am NOT mis-impressed

[marmar]

3. Oh Gawd will this labotamized orangutan ever STFU...

Nov. 7, 2000, created "miselections."

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. "misimpressions" ?

LIAR! :grr:

[lonestarnot]

5. Hey bushitler: misimpression this you moran!

SAFOMA

[filer]

6. I guess I'm guilty.

I've been buying into the "enemy's propaganda" that we've been provoking them. Reality check...they hate us for our freedoms.
:sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

7. AP Bush confronts critics of Iraq policies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_16;_ylt=Apu5iGAiTmb7UMIS01TZYR0b.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--
Bush confronts critics of Iraq policies

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 53 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Gloves-off election-year rhetoric hit the radio Saturday, as
President Bush argued that critics are wrongheaded to argue for a different policy in
Iraq.

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The president has been fighting back against the Democratic attacks with a series of appearances, and he recycled many lines from earlier in the week in his Saturday radio address.

"Some in Washington have selectively quoted from this document to make the case that by fighting the terrorists in Iraq, we are making our people less secure here at home," Bush said. "Five years after the 9/11 attacks, some people in Washington still do not understand the nature of the enemy. The only way to protect our citizens at home is to go on the offense against the enemy across the world."

At a GOP fundraiser Thursday in Alabama, Bush said, "The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run."

He also charged in Alabama that "some in Washington, some decent people, patriotic people, feel like we should not be on the offensive in this war on terror," without offering any evidence of such remarks.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_16;_ylt=Apu5iGAiTmb7UMIS01TZYR0b.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--

White House press secretary Tony Snow acknowledged Friday that no Democrats have said directly that they do not want to take the offensive against terrorists, but he defended Bush's no-holds-barred politicking.

"I think there's been a lot of ratcheting up of rhetoric on the other side where the president has been accused of everything from dereliction of duty to not caring about what happens to people who have been claimed on the battlefields," Snow said. "The point the president is trying to make is, there are going to be some clear choices."

Bush argued Saturday that maintaining the U.S. presence in Iraq is crucial to winning the broader war on terror.

"Our safety depends on the outcome of the battle in Iraq," he said. "Withdrawing from Iraq before the enemy is defeated would embolden the terrorists."