Bush went on to repeat the administration’s linkage of the 9/11 attacks to Iraq, saying the war in Iraq is a fight against “the same people that attacked us on September the 11th.” One option before the Senate would see a troop withdrawal begin within the next three months. This is the bill’s co-sponsor Senator Carl Levin.
Sen. Carl Levin: “The open-ended occupation of a Muslim country by the West has played right into the hands of al-Qaeda, and we need to bring it to a responsible end.”