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What Bush Should Have Said
An alternative speech for a president seeking support on Iraq
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My fellow members of the American Legion, I have made some serious
mistakes and miscalculations in our struggle against Islamic
extremism over the past five years. Some of these were made out of
anger and impatience in the months after we were so viciously
attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Others were made out of my heartfelt
belief that our American values—freedom, democracy, market
economics—are the surest path away from the fury and despair that
have plagued the nations at the heart of the Islamic world. I still
believe deeply in those...