The Daily Background
| Bush continues to confuse people about who we’re fighting in Iraq
Filed at 9:46 pm, Tuesday July 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Goodness, this has got to be a new record:
President Bush’s speech today on Iraq took 24 minutes, according to the White House transcript. Our count, using that transcript, indicates he mentioned al-Qaeda 93 times. We counted 23 mentions of Osama bin Laden, 32 mentions of terrorists and five mentions of the Sept. 11 attacks, so it doesn’t take a lot of insight to see what the president was trying to emphasize today.
Wow, that’s an average 3 mentions of al Qaeda per minute. And yet he said the word “sectarian” only twice, and the word “insurgent” didn’t even come out of his mouth. Clearly, this is part of a concerted effort to confuse people about the true sources of violence in Iraq…
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