President George Bush said this in his weekly radio address:
We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens. Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror.
I can barely type this shit in; it makes me so furious.
"We went to war because we were attacked,"
Yes, you did. But you went to war against people other than those who attacked us.
"we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens."
At war in the wrong place and against the wrong enemy. And we are still there because you goofed up magnificently, Mr. Bush. Most of the people who want to harm this country are fairly free to continue with their evil plots while we are mired down in Iraq.
"Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror."
This would be funny if it was published in something else than the weekly radio address of the most powerful man on earth. As it is, I weep. Bush is admitting that he has caused the terrorists to congregate in Iraq. He created a problem, and now we all must pay for it. The "flypaper" theory is disgusting, unethical and just plain wrong. You don't get rid of terrorists by siccing them onto some innocent neighbor and then bombing both the terrorists and the neighbor to smithereens. Or if you do this your other neighbors will hate your guts forevermore and they are right to do so.