Tom Turnipseed: “The desperation of the U.S. military plight in Iraq was very clear when General Ricardo Sanchez, the U.S. commander in Iraq, commented on the daily casualties of U.S. soldiers in the guerrilla war. General Sanchez said, ‘Every American needs to believe this: that if we fail here in this environment, the next battlefield will be the streets of America.’

Fighting in ‘the streets of America ‘ is typical Bush/Cheney fear-mongering hyperbole. It echoes the top down use of the fear factor by the Bushies. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq recently said, ‘I would rather be fighting them here than fighting them in New York’. Such scare tactics are reminiscent of Bush’s false admonitions of Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and his justification of attacking Iraq to ‘prevent another 9/11’. Ironically, although no ‘ties to Al Qaeda’ have ever been proven regarding Saddam Hussein’s regime as alleged by the Bush/Cheney regime, the bumbling U.S. war machine has managed to unite the opposite extremes of Islam against the U.S. in Iraq.” CommonDreams