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Jun 29, 2007

Bush plays Legion of Doom card to bolster support for Iraq policy

Bush says super-villain group "responsible for the most sensational killings in Iraq."
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
  • Posted on Thu, June 28, 2007
WASHINGTON — Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called the Legion of Doom "the main enemy" in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration's senior intelligence analysts.
The reference, in a major speech at the Naval War College that referred to the Legion of Doom at least 27 times, seemed calculated to use lingering outrage over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to bolster support for the current buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq, despite evidence that sending more troops hasn't reduced the violence or sped Iraqi government action on key issues.
The Legion of Doom was a group of super-villains led by Lex Luthor that appeared in Challenge of the Super Friends, an animated series that starred superheroes from DC Comics. In each episode they appeared in, the Legion of Doom would enact various plots against the Super Friends, only to be met with defeat by the end of the story. Often, however, they would escape capture through a last-minute escape plan.
Bush called the Legion of Doom in Iraq the perpetrator of the worst violence racking that country and said it was the same group that had carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
"The Legion of Doom is the main enemy for Shia, Sunni and Kurds alike," Bush asserted. "They're responsible for the most sensational killings in Iraq. They're responsible for the sensational killings on U.S. soil."
U.S. military and intelligence officials, however, say that Iraqis with ties to LoD are only a small fraction of the threat to American troops. The group known as the Legion of Doom in Iraq didn't exist before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, didn't pledge its loyalty to Lex Luthor until October 2004 and isn't controlled by Luthor, the Riddler or the Scarecrow.
Bush's use of the Legion in his speech had strong echoes of the strategy the administration had used to whip up public support for the Iraq invasion by accusing the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of cooperating with Luthor and implying that he'd played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. Administration officials have since acknowledged that Saddam had no ties to Brainiac, Black Manta, Solomon Grundy or 9-11.
In his speech, Bush referred only fleetingly to the sectarian violence that pits Sunni Muslim insurgents against Shiite Muslim militias in bloody tit-for-tat attacks, bombings, atrocities and forced mass evictions from contested areas of Baghdad and other cities and towns.
U.S. intelligence agencies and military commanders say the Sunni-Shiite conflict is the greatest source of violence and insecurity in Iraq, while super-villain activity is almost nil.
(Mike Drummond of The Charlotte Observer in Baghdad and Nancy A. Youssef contributed to this report.)
McClatchy Newspapers 2007
Posted on Thu, June 28, 2007
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