Bush says Iraq war center of anti-terror fight

look! i almost hate to tell you, but he's just disproved his claim that we have to fight them there or they'll come here!

lookee, lookee:

Bush said intelligence showed that in January 2005, bin Laden tasked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, his senior operative in Iraq, to organize a terrorist cell and use Iraq as a staging ground for attacking the United States.

see what i mean? almost two years after we invade iraq, bin laden gets the idea to use it as a base to attack us here.

we're not keeping them pinned down there. more likely, we're keeping ourselves pinned down!