Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Hit & Run

President Bush is becoming increasingly desperate to justify the Iraq war. Today, for example, he cited intelligence reports that showed a link between Al-Qaida's operation in Iraq and the terror group that attacked the United States on 9/11.

Well, duh.

The only problem with Bush's logic is that Al-Qaida had no operation in Iraq prior to our invasion, the toppling of Saddam, and the ensuing anarchy that engulfed the country. In other words, Bush's actions are the very reason Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's a battlefield of his own creation. And using his own mistake to justify our continued presence in Iraq makes no damn sense.

It's kind of like running over a pedestrian, repeatedly driving over him to make sure he's really run over, kicking him a few times to make sure he's dead, and then telling the gathering crowd of witnesses, "Hey, this guy's been run over!"

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