"Success in Baghdad will be success for the United States," Cheney quoted the terrorists as declaring. "Failure in Iraq is the failure of the United States. Their defeat in Iraq will mean defeat in all their wars."
"Obviously, the terrorists have no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq," Cheney remarked about the sing-song manifesto. "They have not called it a distraction or a diversion from their war against the United States," he said.
It is either sad or damning that Cheney doesn't acknowledge that it is the zealotry of his administration to dominate and own Iraq which has enabled bin-Laden and his associates to get any mileage at all from their rhetoric. It's equally tragic that he can't acknowledge that bin-Laden is using that zealotry to keep our nation militarily bogged down in Iraq. All the terrorists, or anyone else has to do to keep Bush engaged in Iraq and away from the 'hunt' for the thugs who orchestrated the most devastating attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor, is to insist we leave, and that an exit would mean some victory for the fugitive cheerleaders of the Iraqi resistance.
Bin-Laden 'won' when we pulled the bulk of our nation's defenders away from the hunt for the terrorist and his accomplices and drew Iraqis (and others) into armed resistance against the U.S. invasion and occupation. The 9-11 terrorists 'win' every day that we sacrifice more lives consolidating power in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of just hunting them down.
Bush and Cheney shouldn't be allowed to escalate their Iraq folly under the pretext of defending America against the al-Qaeda specter they've deliberately allowed to fester and expand. We should end their terrorist-enabling occupation . . . no matter what they say al-Qaeda is telling us; no matter whose threats they elevate to keep us as frightened of the consequences of their own illegal and immoral aggression as they are.
"Obviously, the terrorists have no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq," Cheney remarked about the sing-song manifesto. "They have not called it a distraction or a diversion from their war against the United States," he said.
It is either sad or damning that Cheney doesn't acknowledge that it is the zealotry of his administration to dominate and own Iraq which has enabled bin-Laden and his associates to get any mileage at all from their rhetoric. It's equally tragic that he can't acknowledge that bin-Laden is using that zealotry to keep our nation militarily bogged down in Iraq. All the terrorists, or anyone else has to do to keep Bush engaged in Iraq and away from the 'hunt' for the thugs who orchestrated the most devastating attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor, is to insist we leave, and that an exit would mean some victory for the fugitive cheerleaders of the Iraqi resistance.
Bin-Laden 'won' when we pulled the bulk of our nation's defenders away from the hunt for the terrorist and his accomplices and drew Iraqis (and others) into armed resistance against the U.S. invasion and occupation. The 9-11 terrorists 'win' every day that we sacrifice more lives consolidating power in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of just hunting them down.
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