June 18, 2004
Playing in Peoria
Today the Cincinnati Post editorialized against Dick Cheney's claim -- contradicted by the 9/11 Commission -- that Iraq was working with Al Qaeda before the war.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Iraq war ultimately had little to do with battling terrorists. Indeed, the argument daily grows stronger that it hurt the cause, by inflaming Islamic passions against the United States, diverting resources from Afghanistan and alienating our allies.
If the Bush line won't play in Cincinnati, America's heartland, it won't play anywhere. The President's answer is "[t]he reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda." Gee, that explains everything.
Posted by glenn
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