WP:Bush: Leaving Iraq Would Aid Terrorists

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49987-2003Nov1.htm


Bush: Leaving Iraq Would Aid Terrorists

By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
Saturday, November 1, 2003; 10:10 AM


CRAWFORD, Texas - An upsurge in violence will not cause America to leave Iraq prematurely, President Bush said Saturday in insisting that U.S.-led forces are rounding up insurgents despite the new attacks.

"The United States will complete our work in Iraq," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Leaving Iraq prematurely would only embolden the terrorists and increase the danger to America. We are determined to stay, to fight and to win."

Bush, spending time at his Texas ranch this weekend, was responding to an upswing of ambushes and bombings by resistance forces, who now are striking almost three dozen times a day, mostly in central Iraq.

On Friday, troops cordoned off the village of Uja - about five miles south of Tikrit - where deposed President Saddam Hussein was born, on suspicion the village is a secret base for financing and planning assaults against coalition forces. Citing unidentified senior officials, The New York Times reported Friday that Saddam himself might be playing a significant role in coordinating and directing attacks by his loyalists.

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1. Leaving Iraq would hurt his pocketbook

and the pocketbook of his greedy CEO pals.

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2. You got that right.

How else is he gonna launder all those taxpayer dollars through Halliburton so he can get it back as campaign contributions?