Iraq - 9/11
This kind of crap has to stop - now:
As for the content, the president’s frequent allusions to September 11 is driving Democrats and commentators batty. I suspect that was the intention. The case for the war has to be made repeatedly and pointedly, and it has to center on the threat of Islamofascist terrorism and the desirability to kill them over there rather than trying to catch them over here. That’s a message that average voters, unnerved by casualty reports and high gas prices and distracted by summertime, can and will respond to.
Look, the President's conflation of September 11th and Iraq is "driving us batty" because it is clearly a lie and a deception aimed at the American people. Regardless of what Andrew McCarthy says, Iraq is not linked to September 11th - just ask US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Or perhaps every single report concerning September 11th - including September 11th Commission Final Report. Islamofascist terrorist groups very well might be operating in the Iraq theatre, but it is only because the President's foolhardy invasion of Iraq.
The case for war was not "Islamofascist terrorism," but rather a mixture of reasons from WMD's to "Saddam's a bad man." Later on, as the WMD, Yellowcake, et al rationale was proving thin, the reason switched to some mixture of WMD's and Saddam's harboring terrorists - when absolutely no one outside of the President's political appointees believed that Saddam actually was harboring anything. As the war continued, the reasoning changed to "Democracy on the March." You have to be seriously deluded or actively lying to say that invading Iraq was about defeating Islamofascist terrorism.
So what is happening in Iraq, now? Well, because the President decided to invade Iraq when there was no clear or present danger, Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists according to the CIA. Good job there.
So, now what do we do? The President has created a giant terrorist training camp, and it is obvious that we need to fight them. But not everyone fighting in Iraq are Al Qaeda type fighters, and to label everyone fighting in Iraq a "terrorist" is both a lie and deceiving the public. So tactics must change to deal with classical insurgents-type fighters and Al Qaeda-type fighters. But the President's speech last night contained no hints or calls for a change of tactics.
Not altering tactics when the battleground is altered is a profoundly bad, and the result is actively growing Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda-like terrorists. This is directly the President's fault - and why we are batty. The crap about fighting terrorists "over there," or participating in a "forward war" - my newest favorite talking point - is pure crap. We've already dealt with why this notion is preposterous.
