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Bush says that withdrawing from Iraq would lead to attacks on U.S.

By Ron Hutcheson

McClatchy Newspapers

 

SALT LAKE CITY - Casting the war in Iraq as a life-or-death struggle

for the entire civilized world, President Bush said Thursday that a

quick withdrawal would trigger more terrorist attacks in America.

 

 

" If we give up the fight in the streets of Baghdad, we will face the

terrorists in the streets of our own cities, " he told military veterans

at an American Legion convention. " The security of the civilized world

depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in

Iraq. "

 

 

In the first in a series of congressional election-year speeches

defending his Iraq policy, Bush said the stakes were too high to

consider any option but total victory. While he acknowledged that many

of his critics are patriotic, he suggested that they're hopelessly

naive.

 

 

The president launched his latest effort to shore up support for the

war as Republicans battle to retain control of Congress in the November

elections. Voter discontent with the war has emerged as a key issue in

campaigns across the country.

 

 

Polls show that most Americans don't think the Iraq war is worth the

loss of American life and don't like the way Bush has handled it. The

president and his advisers have responded by focusing on the stakes, a

debate that sidesteps questions about the conduct of the war and the

more fundamental issues of whether invading Iraq was a mistake and

whether the administration's case for doing so was sound.

 

 

Bush's remarks to the American Legion came two days after Defense

Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told the same audience that war critics

seemed to be more interested in " dividing our country than acting with

unity " against terrorists. Rumsfeld said that the critics suffered from

" moral confusion " about the stakes in Iraq.

 

 

The president avoided disparaging his critics directly, but he made it

clear that he considers criticism of his policies dangerous to

America's security.

 

 

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