Fred Harteis News Articles- Hours after President Bush acknowledged “a certain level of frustration with the leadership” in Iraq, the White House said today that Mr. Bush would declare the struggle there as vital as earlier American campaigns in Asia and would once again call for perseverance.

 

“There are many differences between the wars we fought in the Far East and the war on terror we are fighting today,” Mr. Bush plans to tell a veterans’ group in a speech on Wednesday. “But one important similarity is that at their core, they are all ideological struggles.”

 

The fact that the White House released excerpts of the president’s speech a day in advance underscored the importance Mr. Bush and his top advisers attach to emphasizing the long view of history over the day-to-day frustrations in Iraq, especially just after Mr. Bush himself acknowledged those frustrations.

 

The excerpts were made available after Mr. Bush, for at least the third time this summer, declined to offer an endorsement of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the man he once called “the right guy for Iraq.”

 

In his speech on Wednesday before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Mr. Bush will once again invoke memories of earlier overseas conflicts. “The militarists of Japan and the Communists in Korea and Vietnam were driven by a merciless vision for the proper ordering of humanity,” he plans to say.

 

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