'Battle of Iraq' turns tide in World War IV

centerforsecuritypolicy ^ | 5/2/2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

[TLBSHOW]

'Battle of Iraq' turns tide in World War IV

"My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

But, President George W. Bush said on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, Iraq was just one battle in a war that stretches around the world.

"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 -- and still goes on," the president said.

Four times, the president referred to the recent Iraq action as a "battle" - contradicting what the media dubbed the "War in Iraq." Destruction of the Afghan Taliban regime and the mop-up of al Qaeda, he said, has been the "Battle of Afghanistan." He referred to the Afghan and Iraqi "theaters of war."

This careful and repeated wording shows that the president is framing a world war context to the ouster of the Baghdad regime. He spoke of Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms of World War II, and the Truman Doctrine and "Ronald Reagan's challenge to an evil empire" which respectively saw the beginning and end of the Cold War - a bloody global struggle that was truly a third world war.

President Bush surveyed the globe from New York and Virginia on 9/11, to Afghanistan, and "from Pakistan to the Philippines to the Horn of Africa." To former CIA Director Jim Woolsey, the US and its friends in the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland and elsewhere are fighting World War IV.

"The war on terror is not over; yet it is not endless," the president said. We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide."

"Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups and seeks or possesses weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilized world -- and will be confronted."

Let's roll.

[shekkian]

I heard somewhere that Albert Einstein said, "I don't know how we will fight World War III, but when we fight World War IV, we will be using sticks and stones."

Or something like that.

[VOA]

Albert Einstein said, "I don't know how we will fight World War III, but when we fight
World War IV, we will be using sticks and stones."

Old Albert was good at that advanced physics gig...even though he talked as a pacifist,
he was smart enough to realize he needed to put his reputation behind the need to
build the A-Bomb.

I suspect that if he'd seen what happened in Iraq in three weeks, he might modify his
statement to "we'll fight with smart weapons; the other guys might as well use
sticks and stones for their weapons".

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I guess we'll continue to have problems with Islam. They're stupid. But most importantly, the Chinese have probably pushed their plan of world domination back ten more years after seeing hoew utterly devastating we were in Iraq.

They'll go to plan B, pumping millions into Hillarious' campaign coffers in hopes of buying what they can not take.

[TLBSHOW]

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