Bush's Terror Analysis: Erroneous and Exaggerated George Bush's latest "terrorism" speech on August 31, showed gross misperceptions of terrorism, its causes, exaggerations of its threats, and he continued to demonize Islam -- and all probably staged for reasons of domestic electoral politics, says Rami G. Khouri. BEIRUT -- There is something sad about a grown man playing children's make-believe war games in a tree-house in grandpa's back yard -- which is how George W. Bush came across Thursday night in his speech on the importance of winning the war in Iraq in the global battle against terrorism. Rarely does a...