What he does not say is he created the vacuum

From CNN.com

Amid declining public support for the Iraq war, President Bush said today the fight against terrorism must continue there because it is the center of a terrorist movement to "intimidate the whole world." Bush said if U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq, insurgents would "use the vacuum created by an American retreat to gain control of a country, a base from which to launch attacks and conduct their war against nonradical Muslim governments."