CNN Headline: "Bush: Terrorists use war in Iraq as an 'excuse'"

It should read:

"America: Bush uses terrorism as an 'excuse' for the war in Iraq"

:shrug:

Hallelujah!

:applause:

Check out Tony Blair's speech to the UN in NY on September 14th:

The obstacle is terrorism, the victims are largely Muslim. How obscene therefore for these terrorists to claim that their terror is in response to our aggression against Muslims in Iraq. They use Iraq to divide us, just as they use Afghanistan where again their terror is the obstacle to Afghan democracy, just as they use Palestine where terrorism does not create progress but destroys it.

And it is not these issues, and never forget September 11 had happened, just a short distance from here, was before Iraq or Afghanistan, and when there was an active attempt to bring peace to the Middle East. If not these, they will use Chechnya, they will use Kashmir or Bosnia, and if none of these it will be the western presence in Arab states. And when all of that fails, those states themselves will be blamed, or any state that is not Talibanised.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page8191.asp