Reply #76: Bush compares terrorists to Nazis [View All]

President Bush said yesterday that the war against Islamic militants was like last century's fight against Nazis and communists and that a US withdrawal from Iraq would lead to its conquest by America's worst enemies.

``The security of the civilized world depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in Iraq," Bush said in a speech to rally support for his unpopular war strategy two months before congressional elections. The Democrats responded by accusing Bush of pursuing failed policies that have weakened the war on terrorism.

Nearly 4,000 antiwar protesters demonstrated downtown as Bush spoke before a friendly American Legion convention in one of the nation's most conservative states. It was the first in a series of Iraq speeches by Bush at a time when just 33 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the war, according to an AP-Ipsos poll

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