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June 29, 2005
Is Bush Trying To Rebrand Iraq War?
In his analysis of U.S. President George W. Bush's June 28, 2005 address to Americans on the war in Iraq, Boston Globe staff writer Peter S. Canellos made this significant observation: Iraq, the president insisted, has become the seminal fight of the post-September 11 world.
The president made it clear in his speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., that the United States is in Iraq to do more than help the Iraqi people set up a stable government -- it is there to confront foreign fighters who came to Iraq from ''Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, and other nations." "There was no discussion, however, of how those fighters slipped through borders that US forces failed to secure, or any other flaws in postwar planning," Mr. Canellos wrote. "Bush's intention was to get ahead of public opinion, to leave his critics worrying over failures that are now little more than water under a bridge at the Tigris River."
That's the way I read it. Besides, I don't know what made Mr. Bush and his adviser think that Muslim fighters would not flock to Iraq after a Christian president of a predominantly white, Christian nation invaded and occupied a predominantly Muslim nation. Muslim fighters from outside Iraq will keep coming as long as the U.S. remains there.
See "Conflict recast as line in sand to terrorists" for more of Mr. Canellos' analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 29, 2005 06:12 AM
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