Edwards: Bush's Iraq/September 11 remarks 'border on the delusional'

[babylonsister]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Edwards_Bush_delusional_in_connecting_Iraq_0712.html

Edwards: Bush's Iraq/September 11 remarks 'border on the delusional'
Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday July 12, 2007


Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards slammed President Bush's connecting of insurgents in Iraq with the terrorists who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 2001, saying the president's remarks "border on the delusional" and accusing him of ignoring his role in allowing al Qaeda to gain strength in Iraq.

"The president's remarks today defending his Iraq policy without regard to actual facts border on the delusional," Edwards said in a statement released Thursday, hours after a Bush press conference. "The president claimed that the same people attacking U.S. troops today are the ones who perpetrated 9/11."

Speaking to reporters in the newly opened White House briefing room, Bush defended his war strategy and continued to conflate the war in Iraq with the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade Center.

"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th," Bush said.

Edwards said that assertion ignores recent history, and the fact that there was no relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda prior to US troops invading.

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[Beaverhausen]

1. Go John!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R. I like John Edwards more and more, every day...

:D

[rudy23]

3. Edwards is right on--this is how to attack their spin. Call it what it is. Don't mince words.

Go get 'em, John!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. kick and rec'd

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

5. Well, I don't believe it has anything to do with "delusion" but rather intentional deception.

That's all this administration EVER DOES is INTENTIONALLY DECEIVE.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I agree with you when it comes to Cheney.

Just look into his eyes. Everything he does is intentional. But, as far as Bush* is concerned, I really do believe that he is delusional. Just look into his eyes...:scared:

[mzmolly]

6. Excellent statement!

Thanks Babylonsista! :hi:

[spanone]

7. It goes over the border.....