“It’s hard to argue that Al Qaeda in Iraq is separate from bin Laden’s Al Qaeda when the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq took an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden,” Mr. Bush said, referring to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a leader of the affiliated group in Iraq who was killed last year.
Actually that's an incredibly easy argument to make. Words aren't what are important here; actions are. Just because some group somewhere swears allegiance to bin Laden does not automatically make them a threat.
Oaths don't magically create capabilities where they didn't previously exist. If they did, Bush's oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" would have magically transformed him into a competent president.
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