President Bush's speech
The speech by the President last night was a reassuring one. Not that I needed reassuring...but some Americans and people around the world do.
One of the items that critics are harping on is President Bush's repeated mention of September 11th.
The President said in the first moments of the speech, "The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September the 11th, 2001. The terrorists who attacked us -- and the terrorists we face -- murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent."
I don't see this statement as identifying the terrorists who we are fighting now as the same people who attacked us. It is the IDEOLOGY that is the subject of the statement. The ideology is one of extreme Islamism, a doctrine of exclusionism, hatred, and violence. This ideology has no problems with targeting, torturing, and murdering innocent men, women, and children to promote its agenda.
This is the SAME ideology as that which drove the al Quaida terrorists to fly planes into our buildings.
The ideology is the common denominator. Let's presume that the terrorists in Iraq do not...and have never...had anything to do with 9/11. So what?! They STILL are terrorists who want to kill us...and have an agenda to do so. This IS the war on terror. This is NOT the war on al Quaida. It is not the war on Osama bin Ladin. It is not the war on Saddam Hussein. It is the war on TERRORISM. And that is who we are fighting in Iraq.
Those who criticize the war are merely politicizing it. They are driven, not by conscience or conviction, but by a hatred of President George W. Bush.
This hatred drives them to politicize not only the war but every issue in President Bush's agenda. Judicial nominees, Social Security reform, tax cuts, national security, the Patriot Act, etc., just to name a few.
They knowingly and purposefully speak destructive words that undermine our efforts in Iraq, ruffling the feathers of our Arab neighbors, and increasing the danger to our military in hotspots around the world.
- CrippleCrab
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One of the items that critics are harping on is President Bush's repeated mention of September 11th.
The President said in the first moments of the speech, "The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September the 11th, 2001. The terrorists who attacked us -- and the terrorists we face -- murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent."
I don't see this statement as identifying the terrorists who we are fighting now as the same people who attacked us. It is the IDEOLOGY that is the subject of the statement. The ideology is one of extreme Islamism, a doctrine of exclusionism, hatred, and violence. This ideology has no problems with targeting, torturing, and murdering innocent men, women, and children to promote its agenda.
This is the SAME ideology as that which drove the al Quaida terrorists to fly planes into our buildings.
The ideology is the common denominator. Let's presume that the terrorists in Iraq do not...and have never...had anything to do with 9/11. So what?! They STILL are terrorists who want to kill us...and have an agenda to do so. This IS the war on terror. This is NOT the war on al Quaida. It is not the war on Osama bin Ladin. It is not the war on Saddam Hussein. It is the war on TERRORISM. And that is who we are fighting in Iraq.
Those who criticize the war are merely politicizing it. They are driven, not by conscience or conviction, but by a hatred of President George W. Bush.
This hatred drives them to politicize not only the war but every issue in President Bush's agenda. Judicial nominees, Social Security reform, tax cuts, national security, the Patriot Act, etc., just to name a few.
They knowingly and purposefully speak destructive words that undermine our efforts in Iraq, ruffling the feathers of our Arab neighbors, and increasing the danger to our military in hotspots around the world.
- CrippleCrab
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posted by Bill Cribbs at
5:33 AM
