Bush Repeats Rumsfeld's Mistake

Dispatch Online

September 3, 2006

President George Bush compared the war against Islamic militants to last century’s fight against Nazis and communists and said a United States withdrawal from Iraq would lead to its conquest by America’s worst enemies.

Incidentally, the speech was given to the American Legion, the same place where Rumsfeld said dissent against the war is equivalent to appeasing Hitler.

Bush said "Iraq is in crisis, our military is stretched thin, and terrorist groups and extremist regimes have been strengthened and emboldened across the Middle East and the world. It is time for a new direction."

I guess the "new direction" will begin in November.