US-Iraq Policy: bin Laden's Golden Goose

Just one day after President Bush's stay-the-course-with-few-modifications speech, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Peter Pace had the following to say:

"There is no option other than victory," he said. "You need to get out and read what our enemies have said ... Their goal is to destroy our way of life."

Sure, that may be true now that we've gone in, and turned Iraq into a recruiting tool for bad guys, but this wasn't so before Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie, Rice et. al. set us off on our Excellent Iraq Adventure.

Bush's speech of yesterday must be hailed as a propaganda coup for Islamic extremism.

Not being able to watch Bush deliver his speech, I've been relegated to reading it.

Did anyone notice that there are some made up words in the speech? How about some utter falsehoods and mis-directions?

Bush actually - according to the official transcript - uttered this sentence:

Victory will come when the terrorists and Saddamists can no longer threaten Iraq's democracy, when the Iraqi security forces can provide for the safety of their own citizens, and when Iraq is not a safe haven for terrorists to plot new attacks on our nation.

Excuse me, "Saddamists?" Shouldn't that be "Hussseinistas" or some other equally nonsensical bit of tripe.

And what the hell about Iraq being a safe haven for terrorists? If you read this logically, the Pres. implies that Iraq is currently a safe haven for the bad guys, but we're working on it.

Lastly, and most sadly, the mean old terrorists can't plot NEW attacks against our nation. The tacit code here is that they have done so before. This is simply fantasy.

From all appearances, the attacks of 9/11 were pretty much planned within our borders.

Lots of smoke and mirrors, but little in the way of fact. If the mass media doesn't call Bush out on these fabrications, democracy is dead in the US.