Article Contributed on: 9/13/2007 11:48:28 PM
General Patreas and President Bush 9/14/2007
President Bush on his comments about General Patreas report claims that the surge is working and we will be able to return some troops, perhaps next summer. But we must maintain a "continuing cooperation with the Iraqi leadership." And he states that if "We maintain stability in Iraq, they will be an ally against Islamic extremists in the middle east."
Iraq an ally against Islamic extremists? Saudi Arabia is supposed to be our ally. 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. Recently, the FBI and CIA stated that most of Al Qeada's funding is coming from Saudi Arabia's Sheiks. Yet the Bush administration has done nothing to "fight those countries who harbor the terrorists" as he promised in his speech when 9/11 happened.
Pakistan is supposedly an ally. We pay them billions a month to fight Islamic extremists. yet the Taliban and Al Qeada still allude them. Osama bin Ladin is reportedly still in the northern hills of Pakistan, between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mushariff is afraid he will be overthrown if he dares attack them.
President Bush claims we are defeating Al Qeada in the middle east. According to the FBI and CIA Al Qeada has doubled it's troops since we began the war in Iraq.
What President Bush fails to realize is that reporters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Washington can report the truth seconds after he speaks. Yet he still manages to spin his Republican constituency on his failing Iraqi policies.
Leonard Muniz (303) 465-0341 "LITERALLY LEONARD"
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