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To: lurqer who wrote (27553)	9/13/2003 12:38:01 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Perhaps the most galling aspect of Bush's consistently defensive speech, however, was his naked attempt to turn what has become a security disaster for U.S. troops, U.N. workers and the Iraqi people into a positive situation. He makes it seem like it is almost a good thing that terrorism is on the rise in Iraq because we've got our enemies where we want them. In claiming that "Iraq is now the central front" in the "war on terror," Bush is heralding a self-fulfilling prophecy: He claimed Iraq was a hotbed of terrorism, and he turned it into one. Meanwhile there's no homeland security and Americans travel outside the US at their own risk, which may be why offshored jobs are slowly trickling back and may return. Oh, maybe THAT was Bush's plan to create jobs.