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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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From: geode008/31/2006 8:11:55 PM
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"Bush Speech Links Iraq War And Nazis"

[AKA Bush is desperate and more demented than ever. Is there an October surprise coming? I would like to find a parallel talking point that compares the Bush presidency to something equally incompetent but...I can't find anything else this incompetent. Bush and the Republicans are in a class all by themselves]

"SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31, 2006(CBS/AP) President George W. Bush said Thursday the war against Islamic militants was like last century's fight against Nazis and communists and that a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to its conquest by America's worst enemies...

With just 10 weeks until Election Day, the president's public relations offensive gives him a way to handle his biggest weakness – the war in Iraq by absorbing it into his biggest strength – the War on Terror, Axelrod reports....

Some Republicans, liked Rep. Christopher Shays, have joined with Democrats in seeking a withdrawal timetable.

"If America were to pull out before Iraq can defend itself, the consequences would be absolutely predictable — and absolutely disastrous," Mr. Bush said. "We would be handing Iraq over to our worst enemies.".....

The president said rising insurgency in Afghanistan would ultimately fail. He said international peacekeepers sent in to quell the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah would succeed in stopping the militant Islamic group from "acting as a state within a state." ...

cbsnews.com
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