Offensive is just the right word...

....for Captain Codpiece's fall, well, offensive to hammer into the heads of a populace that has finally awakened to just what he is, that the so-called War on Terror, as defined by him, is something they'd damn well better support. Yesterday he picked up Rummy's baton to try and conflate his Iraq policy into the moral equivalent of WWI:

President Bush, framing the war against terrorism as "the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st Century" and the war in Iraq as its central front, launched a new, three-week initiative Thursday to reclaim straying public support for the conflict in Iraq.

As the Bush administration works to portray an American struggle with "radical" Islamic terrorists as the historic successor to 20th Century wars against fascism and communism, the president is pointing to the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as a reminder of when this 21st Century war came ashore in the U.S.

Yet observers say the president's new offensive appears more precisely timed for the start of a fall election campaign in which the war in Iraq has become a pivotal issue in congressional and Senate races as the Republican Party struggles to maintain control of Congress.

Renewing a declaration he made in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, the president vowed here that any nation that harbors terrorists also is "an enemy of the United States." And, directly accusing Iran of sponsoring terrorism in the Middle East, Bush pledged that Iran's "defiance" of demands to curtail its nuclear program will not go unpunished.

"The war we fight today is more than a military conflict," Bush told the annual convention of the American Legion. "It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st Century."

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While Bush has asked that people not read political motivations into this new series of addresses that will culminate with a speech to the United Nations on Sept. 19, analysts say he is playing to a keypolitical strength in the face of terrorism with a goal of rekindling fear among American voters as midterm elections near.

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For the curtain-raiser of his September campaign for support for the war, Bush chose the American Legion at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

He directly confronted the campaign criticism from Democrats and a growing number of Republicans: That the U.S. took its eye off the enemy after Sept. 11 with its invasion of Iraq.

"Some politicians look at our efforts in Iraq and see a diversion from the war on terror," Bush said. "That would come as news to Osama bin Laden, who proclaimed that the third world war is raging in Iraq."

Hey, moron, Bin Laden said that BECAUSE YOU INVADED IRAQ FOR NO FUCKING GOOD REASON!

Has an American president ever had as good a friend as George W. Bush has in Osama Bin Laden? An attack on the U.S. timed exactly to coincide with a big expose in Newsweek about how the Bush people stole the 2000 election and at a time when Bush's approval ratings were struggling in the mid-40's only 8 months into his term. Videotapes timed perfectly to coincide with times when Bush is down in the polls. A reverse-psychology video in which Bin Laden, who really, really wanted four more years of George Bush because Bush helps his recruiting immeasurably, says he DOESN'T want Bush re-elected.

Not even a brother could be as good to George W. Bush as his family's business partner has been.

And in his warmongering rants this week, he's laying the groundwork for this year's election year October Surprise -- an invasion of Iran. If that doesn't work, he may just call his BFF Osama and ask him to do it again -- so he can cancel the election and remove any possibility that the Democrats might take the House and start asking questions that his own party has refused to do.