"We must fight them over there, so we won't have to fight them here", is the Bush slogan for the Iraq war. It is the justification that he and his staff fall back on when their other justifications fall flat. Now that the support for the war is in freefall, the propaganda machine is gearing up again. As Glenn Greenwald has documented, the administration has begun to use the term al-qaeda when referring to anyone they are fighting in Iraq. Today, General Batiste provided reasons for caution in throwing around the word al qaeda, speaking against the current propaganda. The fact is that al qaeda is a threat and a peice of the puzzle in Iraq, but they are not the main source of the violence and unrest in the country, the prize for most threatening would be given to the Shi'a-Sunni civil war. Al qaeda is a worldwide organization and they are not relegated to the middle east. This makes the Presidents slogan patently false, and like all other reasons for this war, it falls flat as well.
-The Kid
