Bush Ties the Fight Against Hezbollah to the Greater War of On Terror

Story here, and I suppose this shouldn't be a surprise either. Our bemuddled president ties everything from tooth decay to a teenager smoking a joint made of catnip to affiliation with the Democratic Party to his War of Terror, so why not lump Hezbollah along with a 3-year-old child who just happens to have the misfortune of living in South Lebanon when Israel decided to blast his home in as well.

WASHINGTON, July 31 — President Bush described Israel’s battle with Hezbollah as part of a much wider struggle against terrorism today, as he once again embraced a pillar of his foreign policy: his faith in the power of democracy to bring peace to the region.

“The current crisis is part of a larger struggle between the forces of freedom and the forces of terror in the Middle East,” Mr. Bush said in a speech at the Coast Guard command center in Miami.

“For decades, the status quo in the Middle East permitted tyranny and terror to thrive,” the president said. “And as we saw on Sept. 11, the status quo in the Middle East led to death and destruction in the United States, and it had to change.”

Mr. Bush mourned the loss of “innocent life,” both in Israel and in Lebanon, where Israel’s attempts to subdue Hezbollah have killed scores of civilians. But he said, as he has repeatedly, that “Israel is exercising its right to defend itself,” and he said again that any cease-fire must be lasting.

Bush's War on Terror is:

• a war without end
• a war that cannot be won
• a war that probably creates 10, 100 or 1,000 new "terrorists" for everyone they kill or capture
• a war that the Government Accounting Office (GAO) last week told us has no firm numbers on the hundreds of billions (billions with a b!) have been spent, how many lives lost, how much damage done