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Is Iraq “A Fatal Battle Between Terrorism and Freedom”?

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Is Iraq “A Fatal Battle Between Terrorism and Freedom”?

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#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)About’s Guide to Terrorism, Amy Zalman, has zeroed in on what I did not articulate last night: The speech was about establishing Iraq as the lynchpin in a fatal battle between terrorism and freedom. I read her analysis today and said, “Yes! That’s what spooked me!” It’s not a “new” claim — Bush has insisted that Iraq is the center of the war on terrorism since 2002, when he began making his public case to depose Saddam Hussein. But four years later, his rhetoric steadfastly absolves the US from responsibility for today’s troubled country, torn apart by civil strife that is in part the result of US inaction: Iraqi insurgents (more than Al Qaeda, at least in Baghdad) did upset post-election Iraq. But the U.S. failure to be able to provide electricity, water or basic stability after hostilities ended helped fuel an insurgency that had popular, as well as extremist, elements.

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