Bush & Pubs "circle wagons" around failsafe justification for endless Iraq occupation - talking pts

[Tin Man]

What a surprise... The common thread among today's White House press conference, and yesterday's intercepted Republican Talking Points memo - just happens to be a receipe, err... make that a guarantee, for keeping US forces in Iraq. It's a sure-fire, fail-safe argument in support of an indeterminate and unending occupation, and a war without end.

"If we leave the job in Iraq unfinished, the terrorists will follow us here..."

That new meme was stated implicitly in the intercepted Talking Point memo: which stated "Join us in asking our Democratic colleagues the essential question: If we do not defeat radical Islam in Iraq, then where will we do so?".

And the same meme was repeated, more explicitly, in today's WH press conference - during which Bush said: "If we fail there, the enemy will follow us here."

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And that, my friends, will remain the "you can't prove a negative" justification for an unending occupation of Iraq. "You can't prove the terrorists won't follow us here, so we must remain in Iraq"

But the evil beauty of this argument is the circular logic that it sanctions: Because as we know, as long as the US remains in Iraq, there will be terrorists in Iraq. And as long as there are terrorists in Iraq, it will be unsafe to withdraw from Iraq, because they will follow us here. And you can't prove it won't happen...

War without end, Amen.

[Bandit]

1. "If we leave the job in Iraq unfinished, the terrorists will follow us here..."

What evidence is that statement based upon? The Vietnam Conflict?? Yep they followed us here and we had to fight them in the streets for years right???? Why are they allowed to utter baseless statements with no evidence to back themselves up except just repetition? I call Bullshit and wonder why no democratic Leader has done the same...

[leftofthedial]

2. and the next smoking gun

could be in the shape of a mushroom cloud

[whistle]

3. Like the Orks from inside the earth, Jesus how stupid, the real reason

...for not leaving Iraq is control of the flow of oil

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "And a ghost will follow you home!!!"

The "proving a negative" thing is sop for a bastard. It's been going on the whole fucking time with bush. His people invent these scenarios where only time and brutal reality can prove him wrong. It happens over and over again.