Reply #5: "Bush's War", but -- [View All]

They're in the process of re-inventing this "war" now, in time for the mid-terms. They're setting up a new "leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq" as a justification for why we can't leave--because finally, people are realizing that it was Al Qaeda who attacked us on 9/ll. It's been said that al Zarqawi was trumped up as the "leader", and now that he's gone they need a new enemy in order to justify staying in Iraq.

The Republican frame is that it is a "war" against Al Qaeda. We need to discard this. It's an occupation. We are NOT in "a time of war" and it is not "war in Iraq". The more people believe this, the stronger the Republicans' case is. It's more like "Bush's Illegal Occupation".