challenging bush rhetoric: was iraq plans a part of or in competition

[salin]

with the then ongoing efforts on the War On Terror (international efforts in Afghanistan and elsewhere to disrupt Al Qeada and prevent future attacks on the US)

It has always been sold by bushco as a part of... a "central front"... even though conventional wisdom has finally acknowledged that there was no Saddam Al Qeada connection.

However - to go after Iraq... bush co started pulling $$$$ away from the W on Terror he started moving intelligence resources to Iraq... less than a year after 911 - and more than a year before an invasion of Iraq.

In short - to "do Iraq" was in competition with "finishing the job" on Al Qeada.

Help defang Rovecos recent attempt to revive "911 loyalty" to bushco per the war on terror front. The bushco desires for a war in iraq had a direct, and negative impact upon their "War on Terror."

[LynnTheDem]

1. Here's my defanging;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3925793&mesg_id=3925793

[BurtWorm]

2. Bush clearly was waiting to acquire "political capital" to throw his war

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050620/why_george_went_to_war.php

"He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," said author and Houston Chronicle journalist Mickey Herskowitz. "It was on his mind. He said, 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.' He went on, 'If I have a chance to invade…, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.'"



9/11 gave him the capital. He stole it from Giuliani, of course, but he never was one to care about how he acquired any kind of capital.