Isn't it amazing how the neocons so blindly associate the GWOT with Iraq they're forced to use desperate language and create false impression to continue justifying creating a war of choice over a war of necessity.
Our enemies in Iraq have employed ruthless tactics to achieve those goals. They've targeted American and coalition troops with ambushes and roadside bombs. They've taken hostage and beheaded civilians on camera. They've blown up Iraqi army posts and assassinated government leaders. (...)
Only since our invasion when we shocked and awed them
Now these enemies have launched a new effort. They have embarked on a bloody campaign of sectarian violence, which they hope will plunge Iraq into a civil war. The outbreak of sectarian violence was encouraged by the terrorist Zarqawi, al Qaeda's man in Iraq who called for an "all-out war" on Iraqi Shia. The Shia community resisted the impulse to seek revenge for a while. But after this February bombing of the Shia Golden Dome Mosque in Samarra, extremist groups mobilized and sectarian death squads formed on the streets of Baghdad and other areas. Our Ambassador reports that thousands of Iraqis were murdered in Baghdad last month, and large numbers of them were victims of sectarian violence. (...)
Only since our invasion when we shocked and awed them
Instead of engaging in intelligent discourse on the merits of the decsion to go to war, strategy of the war, plan for withdrawl (gradual or otherwise) and the overall costs the Secretary of Defense can simply dismiss opposition as Communists and Fascists and the President can just glaze over facts and spin.
Their lackies however, cater to the lowest common denominator and drop the bar below the line of visibility with ad hominem sound bites like;
All this because there's an argument for stopping the fiscal hemorrhaging, reducing the number of unnecessary deaths and refocusing on the real goal of reducing the threat of terrorism. What are they really frightened of?