Left In Lowell

Cape Cod Works has a post about Bush’s non-speech on Iraq last night. One thought struck me after reading this quote from the speech:

“The commander in charge of coalition operations in Iraq, who is also senior commander at this base, General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said, We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us.”

This is, of course, a theme of Bush’s - we fight them there and we don’t have to fight them here, which I’ve posted about before. But I failed to make another connection…

What makes the Bush administration think that al Qaeda can’t multitask?? Especially since it’s fairly well-known that most of the “terrorists” or “insurgents” (depending on who you’re talking to) in Iraq are home-grown…al Qaeda is all over the world. What, a 12-year-old can watch TV and play on the computer at once but al Qaeda can’t plan attacks on the US while we’re in Iraq? Are you kidding me?

[UPDATE: Americablog reports that the one and only place in his speech that Bush got applause from the soldiers was when they were led to do it by a Bush team guy…it would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.]