...so we don't have to face them here at home

I am getting tired of the phrase often repeated by President Bush and his staff that "we are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so that we don't have to face them here at home." I don't know if they are saying it everyday or if the media is just replaying it over and over again. It was repeated several times after the London subway bombings. We seem to be disrupting bin Laden by chasing him through Afghanistan but that doesn't stop some islamic killer from blowing himself up in America for no reason. Do the suicidal murderers have to be ordered to kill in order to be called a martyr? (That sentence barely makes sense - I think its time to invent a few more words to describe these lunatics)

I like the idea of killing terrorists in Iraq. I think our Army is good at that. But I don't think it guarantees safety at home. (We need defense but that is a separate issue.) Repeating it so often will make it sound stupid if there is another attack in America. I think this is a setup for failure. There may be a subway bombing in New York. That will not mean that killing terrorists in Iraq is a bad strategy. But you can bet it will certainly be portrayed as such.

I offer an alternative phrase.
We are in Iraq to kill as many terrorists as we can. We have posted our flag there and are prepared to defend it. We challenge all enemies of America and freedom to fight us there as we intend to help the Iraqis establish a constitutional government modeled after our own, if they want it. We know that God-given rights are worth fighting for and we pray that God will help us defend our homes as we kill islamic terrorists and their dictator governments.