Bush on the Caliphate, Again
Four times yesterday Bush talked about the evil "caliphate" that radicals want to create. Unlike in the past, though, he spoke about it as if it already existed, accusing his imagined enemy of trying to "extend the caliphate" and "spread their caliphate." I wish some reporter had the guts to ask the president to explain what he means, to explain what he thinks a caliphate is, and how a rag-tag band of Al Qaeda types hiding in Pakistan can conquer the land from Spain to Indonesia, which is what Bush keeps warning about...
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Bush on the Caliphate, Again
Robert Dreyfuss
October 12, 2006
Four times yesterday Bush talked about the evil "caliphate" that radicals want to create. Unlike in the past, though, he spoke about it as if it already existed, accusing his imagined enemy of trying to "extend the caliphate" and "spread their caliphate." I wish some reporter had the guts to ask the president to explain what he means, to explain what he thinks a caliphate is, and how a rag-tag band of Al Qaeda types hiding in Pakistan can conquer the land from Spain to Indonesia, which is what Bush keeps warning about.
Here are the relevant excerpts (you can read the whole transcript here):
The strategic goal is to help this young democracy succeed in a world in which extremists are trying to intimidate rational people in order to topple moderate governments and to extend the caliphate.
The stakes couldn't be any higher, as I said earlier, in the world in which we live. There are extreme elements that use religion to achieve objectives. And they want us to leave. And they want to topple government. They want to extend an ideological caliphate that has no concept of liberty inherent in their beliefs.
And they have objectives. They want to -- they want to drive us out of parts of the world to establish a caliphate. It's what they have told us.
It would give these people a chance to plot and plan and attack. It would give them resources from which to continue their efforts to spread their caliphate.
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:: Article nr. 27436 sent on 13-oct-2006 23:16 ECT
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Link: robertdreyfuss.com/blog/2006/10/bush_on_the_caliphate_again.html
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