Los Angeles Times: Bush's Folly

[State the Obvious]

This editorial was in today's paper (7/30/07). The media is busy talking about "winning the war in Iraq". This seems to have conveniently slipped through unnoticed.

Bush's "fixation on Al Qaeda's role in Iraq reveals the shallowness of his thinking-and of the U.S. strategy on fighting terrorism.....President Bush's speech last week arguing that the United States must stay in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda leadership reassembling there ranks as on of his most vacuous. It drew on intelligence that was conveniently- and perhaps selectively?- declassified in order to make the dubious case that the Al Qaeda in Iraq today is the same enemy that attacked us on 9/11."......."Either way, the public shouldn't believe that Al Qaeda is responsible for most of Iraq's problems."

Here is the article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-qaeda30jul30,0,3504436.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail

[applegrove]

1. If they get the Sunnis to go after Al Qaeda and then beat Al Qaeda in Iraq - they

will claim some sorta victory - no?