And for a more rational counter argument.

And for a more rational counterargument to Bush's speech saying that Iraq is helping defeat terrorism, let's turn to an NBC Nightly news story yesterday evening by Jim Miklaszewski. This web article was published in conjunction with the TV piece.

At the same time, some Pentagon officials now acknowledge that the two-and-a-half-year insurgent war has turned Iraq into a terrorist training camp.

U.S. intelligence indicates Islamic militants from several African nations — Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan and Somalia — travel through Syria into Iraq, where they get hands-on training in roadside and suicide bombings, assassinations and kidnappings as well as counter-surveillance and counter-intelligence against military targets, constantly changing their tactics to counter American defenses.

It's that damn liberal media, again. They just won't publish what the president says whether it's true or not.

Update: Antiwar has a pretty good bit on the Bush speech.