Aljazeera.Net - Bush's Iraq-9/11 link irks US press: "Wednesday 29 June 2005, 15:03 Makka Time, 12:03 GMT
US newspapers have said President George Bush failed, in his televised Tuesday speech, to speak honestly about Iraq and should not have linked the US-led fight there to September 11.
'Sadly, Mr Bush wasted his opportunity last night, giving a speech that only answered questions no one was asking,' said the New York Times on Wednesday, referring to Bush's mantra that a stable and democratic Iraq would be worth US sacrifices.
'We did not expect Mr Bush would apologise for the misinformation that helped lead us into this war, or for the catastrophic mistakes his team made in running the military operation.
'But we had hoped he would resist the temptation to raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks,' said the daily.
Rather than explain that 'it will take years before the Iraqi government and its military are able to stand on their own' and that 'all those years of effort and suffering' could still result in civil war, Bush offered 'the usual emotional rhetoric about the advance of freedom', added the Times."
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