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September 27, 2004
President Bush told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly yesterday that he wouldn't hesitate to repeat his flight-suit and "Mission Accomplished" routine aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. "You bet I'd do it again," the president stated. Meanwhile, outside of the president's recurring delusions, American casualties in Iraq have more than tripled in the past year. Our troops face roughly 90 attacks daily. There has been an alarming rise in foreigners being taken hostage. Security remains a serious problem in Baghdad, Falluja, Samarra, and other parts of the country.
- How many more Americans must die before President Bush accepts reality in Iraq? The CIA, top military officials, the United Nations, senior GOP senators, the Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and now Secretary of State Powell all maintain that violence and instability are increasing in Iraq. Just yesterday, Powell stated that the insurgency in Iraq is getting worse and that anti-American sentiment in Muslim countries is on the rise.
- The president's "resolve" has turned Iraq into a hotbed of global terrorism. President Bush promised that the war Iraq would make us safer from terrorism. But thousands of terrorists are now converging on Iraq – the exact condition the war was supposed to eliminate. And our troops must bear the burden of the administration's mistakes and arrogance in Iraq.
- President Bush's actions speak louder than his words: he cares more about his own political fate than the safety of Americans. The president's "optimism" in the face of clear contrary facts about Iraq is neither resolute nor firm. It is reckless and dangerous.
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