Appropriate Republican Rhetoric?

Greg Sargent calls Obama's press conference in Jordan an appropriate use of Republican war on terror rhetoric.

I'm all for a war on terror that actually fights the terror that's responsible for 9/11. And that terror is still hiding and fighting offenses in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That terror is also still receiving support from Bush-friendly states like Saudi Arabia-- home to 15 of the 17 hijackers. The Bush administration has used such tough-talk rhetoric to paint Iraq as being the central front in the war on terror, even though Iraq had nothing to do with those attacks. Bush and the GOP used America's right to defend herself on a country that was already contained and posed no threat to anyone, or at least posed much less of a threat than say Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. Rather than admit the mistake of Iraq, the Bush administration and its heir apparent John McSame want to continue placing America in a defensive war in Iraq rather than take an offensive war to al Qaeda and those responsible for killing over 3,000 people on our own shores. A much more precise war is what this is all about and what Republicans are totally against.

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