The War President. Which War is he fighting ?

President Discusses War on Terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio (White House official record)

After his speech the President of the Cleveland Club opened the questioning ;

Q. ".... Do you believe this, that the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism are signs of the apocalypse? And if not, why not?"

PRESIDENT. (part of answer) ....." I made it clear, I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally, Israel, and -- (applause.)"

THE OVAL OFFICE, FEBRUARY 7, 2004

BROADCAST ON NBC’S “Meet the Press"

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2004

"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign-policy matters with war on my mind."

UPDATE

As Justin Raimondo reminds us in his review of the Mearsheimer-Walt study of the Israeli Lobby , what he said at Anti War in 2003 ;

"The Iraq war, as we are beginning to discover, had nothing to do with 'weapons of mass destruction,' zero to do with al-Qaeda, and zilch to do with implanting 'democracy' in the inhospitable soil of Iraq. The first phase of the second Yom Kippur War is revealing, in action, the strategic doctrine at the heart of U.S. Middle Eastern policy: the installation of Israel as regional hegemon."