I just heard Captain Crazy said al-Qaeda 95 times in the 25 minute speech today. Be afraid, be very afraid!!!

US President George W Bush, trying to reverse ebbing support for the Iraq war, sought on Tuesday to tie deadly violence there directly to Al-Qaida terrorist chief Osama bin Laden.

Facing mounting calls for a US withdrawal, and intelligence findings that the unpopular war is a recruiting tool for Al-Qaida, Bush warned that a hasty US pull-out would increase the risk of an attack in the United States.

“However difficult the fight is in Iraq, we must win it, and we can win it,” Bush said in a speech to uniformed military personnel here. “Surrendering the future of Iraq to Al-Qaida would be a disaster to our country.”

Bush said that bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, pulled the strings of Al-Qaida in Iraq, a group that did not exist before the March 2003 US-led invasion.

“Some say that Iraq is not a part of the broader war on terror,” he said. “They claim that the organisation called al-Qaida in Iraq is an Iraqi phenomenon, that it’s independent of Osama bin Laden and it’s not interested in attacking America. That would be news to Osama bin Laden.”

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