Posted on 07/24/2007 9:23:31 AM PDT by I still care
I'll post as soon as I find more. He really laid it on the line, and said Al Qaeda is looking to follow us home. He said Al Qaeda is behind most of the attacks in Iraq and they are looking to set up a terrorist base there to attack other countries.
He emphasized Iraq is the most important front on terror.
Why would Bush give an important speech on Iraq during David Stern’s press conference?
Suppose any of the ace reporters at the next Democrat debate will ask any of the candidates about this? Or about illegal immigration? Or about anything anybody cares about.
Or will the MSM continue to shill for the DNC?
Nobody listens to him now, not even those of us that understand the nature of the threat posed by al Qaeda.
Thank you for putting that so succinctly, and saving me the trouble. Perfect.
Ping me when he gives an important speech committed to immediately closing and securing our porous national borders.
It gives me no pleasure to do so, but you are welcome.
This term is the most disappointing since....well, his daddy’s only term.
He can’t expect us to take him seriously.
See my post #5 on this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870815/posts
If he’s serious on the WOT he’d withhold every penny of federal funding for every single sanctuary city. He’s just blowin’ more smoke up our collective a$$e$
The enemy needs to know that not all Americans will cave to their headchopping blackmail.
Found this: - Notice how the San Jose Mercury News automatically argues the Democrat side for them rather than just report the news:
CHARLESTON, S.C.—President Bush sought Tuesday to strengthen the connection between the terrorist network al-Qaida and the unceasing Iraq war, prodding people to remember the threat of attack at home.
By stressing al-Qaida’s burgeoning operation in Iraq, Bush again aimed to frame the war in the public’s mind as a matter of protecting the United States. Yet the war itself has turned into a valuable recruiting tool for al-Qaida, senior intelligence officials concede.
Bush is up against highly skeptical audiences with 18 months left in office. The public has largely lost faith in the war, Congress is weighing ways to end it, and international partners have fading memories of the 2001 attacks against the U.S.
In an afternoon speech to military personnel, Bush will warn that al-Qaida anywhere remains a catastrophic threat to the U.S., nowhere more so than from its base in Iraq.
Bush declassified information about al-Qaida’s operation for his speech. His goal is to show that al-Qaida in Iraq is a core part of the overall terror network—a direct jab at those who say U.S. troops in Iraq are bogged down against the wrong enemy.
For his setting, Bush chose Charleston Air Force Base, a vital launching point for cargo and military personnel headed to Iraq. He watched crates of supplies being loaded onto a C-17 at the base, which ships thousands of tons of cargo to front-line troops.
...Al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, orchestrated the terrorist strikes on the United States by turning hijacked airplanes into killing machines. That was almost six years ago.
Now a fresh intelligence estimate warns that the United States is in a heightened threat environment, mainly from al-Qaida. The terror group is seizing upon its affiliate, al-Qaida in Iraq, to recruit members and organize attacks, the report found.
Bush sees such linkage as grounds for sticking with the fight in Iraq.
Yet his critics argue just the opposite point—that the war is not reducing the threat to America, but increasing it by swelling and unifying al-Qaida’s numbers.
Al-Qaida had no active cells in Iraq when the U.S. invaded in March 2003, and its operation there is much larger now than before the war, U.S. intelligence officers say.
The White House emphasizes that al-Qaida leaders in Iraq have sworn allegiance to bin Laden, who has avoided capture. He is believed to be living in the rugged Pakistan terrain.
In broad strokes, Bush’s approach links the Iraq war to an event that Americans remember deeply—the Sept. 11 attacks—as not the sectarian strife among Iraqis. That violent infighting among Iraqis has caused much of the United States to see little point in the U.S. mission.
I watched the speech... America needed to hear this speech months if not years ago, and they needed to hear it frequently. I get the feeling it will fall on deaf ears.
David Stern nothing. Lindsey Lohan was just arrested for DUI.
Ah, I see that the “surrender” crowd is already responding by making the contentions I had just posted.
Their propaganda for the enemy is sickening.
The President has been coddling Americans for a long time, its time for them to step up and refuse to surrender.
what’s going on with Lindsey?
I think we all know the answer here.
One of the techniques they may use to “follow us home” could be to disguise themselves as hispanics and sneak across the southern border. I did not hear the President, but I’m sure he must have addressed this...
Well, shame on you then.
Speak for yourself only... most of us here on FR understand where we are today in our History... and petty political crap just will not cut it if we want to keep America alive. Disagree when you do... back him up when you agree... but this Bush hatred is better served by aiming it at our real domestic enemy... the dims!
LLS
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