Fight them there, so they don't co...ohhh REALLY?

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Okay, but what about the substance of the speech? Well, a curious thing happened last Tuesday night - Bush came up with yet another rationale for the Iraq war. And it's the most ridiculous one yet.

Forget what you were told before. Forget you were told that Saddam was involved in 9/11; threatened to attack us with his chemical and biological weapons; came this close to building a nuclear bomb; could strike the United States with unmanned aerial vehicles. Forget you were told that the Iraqi people were begging us to liberate them, and would dance in the streets once our troops arrived. Forget you were told that the whole thing would take six weeks - six months at a maximum. Forget you were told that it would hardly cost us a dime.

And forget that any of this was Bush's fault. Sure, his administration was pumping 24/7 lies and misjudgments and propaganda down the American people's throats - but he was just trying to protect us from the WMDs. I mean, the terrorists.

So now where are we? Well apparently Iraq is a real live training ground for terrorists. Apparently, by invading a country which had nothing to do with 9/11 (except in the mind of George W. Bush and friends), we have stoked the flames of jihad and emboldened radical Islamists all over the world. Apparently Iraq is home to more and more foreign fighters, although - and this is a piece of luck - we can now "fight them over there instead of fighting them over here." Assuming they have no concept of multi-tasking, that is.

And so we must stay the course, and defeat the terrorists. Or, as David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org put it: "Apparently the disaster that Bush has created in Iraq is now the justification for having created it."

Here's one of the highlights of Bush's speech:


BUSH: The lesson of this experience is clear: The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom. The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September the 11th, if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi, and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden. For the sake of our nation's security, this will not happen on my watch.

I'll tell you what - if we've learned anything since 9/11, it's how not to fight a war on terrorism. It seems that the only people who haven't noticed that the war is creating more terrorists and making the world a more dangerous place are the people in charge of running the war. That's not good. With all the tough lessons the Bush administration has learned in the last two years, you'd think they'd be experts by now - or at least have some kind of plan. But no, the lesson they appear to have learned is that if something's a really shitty idea, you should never stop doing it.

And what about bringing freedom to the Iraqi people? Here's what Bush had to say about that:


BUSH: In the past year, we have made significant progress. One year ago today, we restored sovereignty to the Iraqi people. In January 2005, more than 8 million Iraqi men and women voted in elections that were free and fair, and took time on - and took place on time. We continued our efforts to help them rebuild their country.

Well that's good to know. But hold on a minute. From earlier in the speech:


BUSH: The commander in charge of coalition operations in Iraq - who is also senior commander at this base - General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said: "We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us."

So that's the bottom line. "We'll fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Hey Iraqi people, you don't mind if we use your country to fight the terrorists that we brought there do you? You'll get that "freedom" we were talking about right after we've killed every last one of you, er, I mean, them. ]


---Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here..HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE? georgie said BRING IT ON...GUESS WHERE they headed...??? STUPIDSTUPID SIMPLE BASTARDS.

They are ALREADY HERE..You Dimbulbs invited them RIGHT ON IN.

And when they pull a Beslan RIGHT HERE..We can send you warhawking chickenshits in to exchange for the lives of our children. OHHH you dont HAVE to volunteer for that one..TRUST ME.---