There's a debate in Washington about Iraq, and nothing 
    wrong with a healthy debate. There's also a debate about 
    al Qaeda's role in Iraq. Some say that Iraq is not part of
    the broader war on terror. They complain when I say that 
    the al Qaeda terrorists we face in Iraq are part of the 
    same enemy that attacked us on September the 11th, 2001. 
    They claim that the organization called al Qaeda in Iraq 
    is an Iraqi phenomenon, that it's independent of Osama bin
    Laden and that it's not interested in attacking America.

    That would be news to Osama bin Laden. He's proclaimed 
    that the "third world war is raging in Iraq." Osama bin 
    Laden says, "The war is for you or for us to win. If we 
    win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever." I say 
    that there will be a big defeat in Iraq and it will be the
    defeat of al Qaeda. (Applause.)