Separation Anxiety
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I don't know how it began, but the notion that the War for Iraq and the War against the Terrorists are separate issues is baffling. Well, I say I don't know, but I do: it serves the anti-Bush interests, shared by Big Media and the Democratic Party, to present these two fights as unconnected. One is a justifiable action, even grudgingly consented to by most of the Democrats and even much of Europe; the other is a Halliburton-inspired adventure, embarked upon for filthy lucre and to straighten out some deep-rooted inferiority complex suffered by the Chimperor.

But if you see Iraq and the fight against the al-Qaedists as two stages in a broader war against Islamofascism, then you are more likely to take the longer view of our struggle to liberate Iraq from the grip of murderers and savages. And why shouldn't you take that view? Because George W. Bush didn't explain it you eloquently enough? Because, if the French and Germans were opposed to the war in Iraq, then there must surely have been something wrong with it? Because every time Dan Rather or Peter Jennings showed you an opinion poll, they trotted out one set of numbers for what we have done in Afghanistan and elsewhere against terrorists and another set for our horrible quagmire in Iraq?

They who control the media control the message.

And I see from last night's Vice Presidential debate that John Edwards continues to parrot Kerry's line that there was no connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda. But that is a lie.

As I have written before, con artists like Kerry and Edwards want their base, which is mostly comprised of Oprah-watching dumbasses who take to books and politics like Superman takes to kryptonite, to think that Bush has lied to them.

I think I understand now what the problem is: you people believe that Bushitler claimed that Saddam was behind the atrocities of 11 September 2001 because when you hear the term "al-Qaeda," you only think of "9/11." Thus, when the Bush Administration rightfully claims that the Saddamites and al-Qaeda were linked, your minds elide these three things into one statement: "Bush says Saddam was behind 9-11."

Never mind that Bush has never claimed that Saddam was responsible for the atrocities of 11 September 2001. But he did proclaim once, not too long after that awful morning, that the United States isn't going to wait around while threats gather; nor are we going to make any distinction between terrorists and the countries that harbor them.

Iraq was ---and still is--- one of those countries. Last week, Kerry said that Iraq was not anywhere close to being the frontline in the war against the terrorists, but that is what he needs to tell you. The reality is much different. Read Stephen Hayes' latest article in the Weekly Standard. It's a good wrap-up of the connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda ---and attested to not only by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence but by the Kean Commission itself. You know, that august body whose recommendations John Kerry is so gung-ho to implement.

But it's clear that he's never read their report. Otherwise, he wouldn't keep telling the lie that there was no relationship betwen Saddam and al-Qaeda. Right?