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Article: EDITORIAL: Dishonest argument for staying in Iraq: President's linkage of al-Qaida in Iraq and Osama bin Laden isn't supported by history.(Editorial)
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- Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA)
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- July 31, 2007
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Jul. 31--One can understand a certain desperation. Public opinion has turned solidly against continuing the war in Iraq any longer than absolutely necessary, but out of stubbornness or conviction, President Bush opposes withdrawal, and military planners talk of maintaining a substantial military presence for at least another two years.
So knowing that even Americans who oppose the war in Iraq understand that there is a pervasive threat from al-Qaida and other jihadist groups that must be countered in various ways and that Osama bin Laden is still unpopular, in his speech last week at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, Bush sought to link the war in Iraq ...