Bush puts his blinders on for his weekly radio address

In his weekly radio address today, George W. Bush tried to sell us on some reasons why we should keep our troops in Iraq.

His rhetoric reminded me of a Lewis Carroll story.

Below I quote some of his reasons (i.e., excuses), along with my responses.

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Bush: "To begin to bring troops home before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for our country. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda"

Me: Whose fault is this? al-Qaeda didn't have a presence in Iraq until we invaded that country and bombed it back to the Stone Age. Also consider the fact that al-Qaeda can thrive in Iraq only if the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government choose not to interfere with their activity.

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Bush: "risking a humanitarian catastrophe,"

Me: There's already a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq, and it's Bush's fault.

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Bush: "and allowing the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq and gain control of vast oil resources they could use to fund new attacks on America."

Me: In this same radio address today, Bush admitted that one of the Iraqi government's missed benchmarks was their failures to "pass a law to share oil revenues." And, of course, terrorists already have a safe haven in Iraq, thanks to Bush for invading that country and thereby fueling al-Qaeda's interest in Iraq, and then leaving the Iraqi borders so porous as to make it extremely easy for al-Qaeda to slip in (or pour in, as the case may be).

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Bush: "And it would increase the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous."

Me: In other words, we haven't learned from our mistakes.

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Enough.