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Josh at work Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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Fighting them there because...

Category: Policy and Politics
Posted on: May 23, 2007 12:37 PM, by Josh Rosenau

The Star's Buzz blog reports:

According to the AP, President Bush plans to rally support for the war by citing intelligence reports that have Osama bin Laden ordering "a terrorist unit to hit targets outside Iraq, and that the United States should be first [hit]."
At some point, we were "fighting them there so we don't have to fight over here," a silly argument that only gets sillier when combined with the claim that they are perfectly happy to do both. If they are planning to fight us elsewhere, shouldn't we get out of Iraq and prepare for that attack? Better yet, prevent it?

We're fighting them there because George Bush has no idea how to beat them.

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We are fighting them here too!~ Todays blogs are filled with posts about Christian Terrorists trying to strike at Falwell's funeral!

Posted by: J-Dog | May 23, 2007 2:00 PM

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Yeah. The Bush administration uses the "fighting them there so we don't have to fight over here," argument to say
that, if we pull out of Iraq, the terrorist will follow us home. To that I usually reply:

Fine! Bring 'em on. I much prefer the home field advantage to playing in their sand box in the Middle East. Besides, they're already here.

GE

Posted by: Guitar Eddie | May 24, 2007 7:57 AM

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