Things Are OK
L. Paul Bremer III, the former director of the Coalition Provisional Authority, and the author of My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope has an op-ed piece, In Iraq, Wrongs Made a Right, in the NYT today. He concludes:
There is, of course, still much to be done. American troops and Iraqis continue to die battling criminal elements of the Saddam Hussein regime and Qaeda terrorists. President Bush has correctly identified Iraq as the central front in the war on terrorism, as Osama bin Laden himself acknowledged when he told his followers "the third world war has begun in Iraq" and that it would "end there in victory and glory, or misery and humiliation."Did he submit his copy to the paper on White House stationary? Sigh.
Despite these enormous stakes, some Americans have called for setting a timetable for our withdrawal or even pulling out now. This would be a historic mistake: a betrayal of the sacrifices Americans and Iraqis have made; a victory of the terrorists everywhere; and step toward a more dangerous world.
posted by Lynn @ 7:29 AM
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"President Bush has correctly identified Iraq as the central front in the war on terrorism,"
Question: Was it the central front in the war on terrorism on 20 March 2003?
as Osama bin Laden himself acknowledged when he told his followers "the third world war has begun in Iraq" and that it would "end there in victory and glory, or misery and humiliation."
Well that settles it then. We'll just let Osama call the shots. That'll show him.
Bremmer. What a dick. But I guess that's a requirement in this administration.
epm,
You have identified one of the points that irritates me about the Bush Administration's discussion of the war. Create the condition for Osama bin Laden to make the statement, then pretend the statement of a homicidal maniac actually counts.
Who is kidding who? The circularity of the argument makes me dizzy.
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