President Replay

Yeah George, we know about freedom. Thanks for that.

But I'm getting really sick of hearing that freedom and liberty is our aim in Iraq. Our aim is establishing an island of economic and political stability palatable to a western culture in a turbulent sea of Islamic fundmentalism. The world cannot survive if fanatics control one of the sources of our planet's economy. We also cannot allow a nuclear Iran to overtake a weakened Iraq. So essentially, we have created for ourselves a gigantic military base in the midst of hostile territory.

This war is not about oil in the most narrow of terms. This war is about the elimination of the cesspool of Islamic radicalism, but we can't say that.

So instead, in one of the President's worst speeches to date, he drones on and on about the miracle of liberty. And liberty is great. We've liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq, with ripple effects in Libya, Lebanon, Egypt and to a lesser extent the Palestinian territories. Quite an accomplishment considering none of these people exhibited any desire for the freedoms we hold so dear.

While we bleed giving the Iraqis freedom, we have to work just as hard convincing them they need it in the first place.