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Why Does Bush Insist on Calling the Iraq War the War on Terror? Email Print

A Miami Herald columnist suggests that George Bush is "delusional."  I would suggest that George Bush is simply recognizing that by calling the unnecessary Iraq War at this point the war on terror, he smoothly makes the transition.  Bush demands the power of a president using the word war to give him the ultimate war powers in every aspect of our lives.  

Cagily substituting a war on terror for the defensive war against those non-existent weapons of mass destruction, apparently makes Bush and the entire Republican administration fantasize everyone will forget his original claim.  It stated that the U.S. was compelled to go to war to protect us against Saddam Hussein, who was ready to strike us with those weapons of mass destruction that the world now knows were non-existent.

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