{"id":2384,"date":"2007-06-29T14:18:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:17:13","slug":"bush-plays-al-qaida-card-to-bolster-support-for-iraq-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/bush-plays-al-qaida-card-to-bolster-support-for-iraq-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Plays al Qaida Card to Bolster Support for Iraq Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bushidiot2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bushidiot2.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers<\/p>\n<p>Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called al Qaida &#8220;the main enemy&#8221; in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration&#8217;s senior intelligence analysts.<\/p>\n<p>The reference, in a major speech at the Naval War College that referred to al Qaida at least 27 times, seemed calculated to use lingering outrage over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to bolster support for the current buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq, despite evidence that sending more troops hasn&#8217;t reduced the violence or sped Iraqi government action on key issues.<\/p>\n<p>Bush called al Qaida in Iraq the perpetrator of the worst violence racking that country and said it was the same group that had carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091203105202\/http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com:80\/homepage\/story\/17471.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan S. 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