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With the Democratic Party leadership intent on making the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq its No. 1 issue in the November elections, the White House is fighting back with a public campaign to explain the connection between Iraq and the larger war against Islamofascist terror. In a speech delivered yesterday to the Military Officers Association of America (one of the best speeches of his presidency), Mr. Bush quoted extensively from prominent terrorists such as Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab Zarqawi explaining why victory in Iraq was so important to the jihadists who target Americans. Just as bin Laden was emboldened by America's forced departures from Lebanon and Somalia, the president emphasized, an American defeat in Iraq would likewise be a tremendous morale boost for America's enemies that would leave this country more vulnerable.
Speaking to the American Legion last week, President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivered speeches noting the parallels between the current situation and the failure of many Americans prior to World War II to understand that Nazism and fascism posed posed an existential threat to the United States. "As veterans, you've seen this kind of enemy before," Mr. Bush stated. "They're successors to fascists, to Nazis, to communists and other totalitarians of the 20th century. And history shows what the outcome will be: This war will be difficult. This war will be long and this war will end in the defeat of the terrorists and totalitarians."See the full content of this document
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Bush On the War
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