Bin Laden Tape Demystified. "Bush Last-Ditch Effot on Iraq Policy; Address to Nation"

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So convenient! "Remember terror! Remember he's after us! Remember we're in a war on terror connected w/Iraq! If you are against my policy you are with the terrorists!"

Remember 9-11...same people who caused it want to attack us again...stay the course...fight in Iraq...central front on terror...

THIS IS WAY TOO OBVIOUS FOLKS

1984

Bush plots strategy to sell his Iraq policy
After visits to Iraq and Australia, he’ll take case to Congress, U.S. public


Updated: 5:38 a.m. ET Sept. 8, 2007

SYDNEY, Australia - President Bush took advantage of a vacationing Congress, a surprise visit to once-restive Anbar province and supportive words from Australia’s prime minister to trumpet his claims of progress in Iraq. Now he must press his case to skeptical lawmakers and a war-weary U.S. public.

The coming week may be his last opportunity to shift the debate — or at least to give Republicans political cover and throw Democrats off stride.

The White House rollout strategy envisions a presidential speech to the nation, either Thursday or Friday.

Next week will start off with testimony to Congress on Monday and Tuesday by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, widely admired by both Republicans and Democrats, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Tuesday also marks the sixth anniversary of the worst terror attacks on U.S soil, giving the administration an opportunity to link present-day al-Qaida extremists in Iraq with Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

The administration sees Bush’s trip to Iraq and the events of next week as a package to put the best face on the troop buildup he announced in January. Even as opposition to the war grew at home, the U.S. military presence swelled by 30,000 to roughly 160,000.

“If you had asked two months ago, ‘Is the surge succeeding?’ people would have said, ’Ah, we’re getting killed.’ I mean literally,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said in an interview. “But now it’s very obvious that on the military side there has been some profound progress. And that progress also has real political implications in terms of the Iraqi people standing up to the folks who have been trying to blow up the government.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20653232/

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