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Bush: No terror haven in Iraq
By UPI Staff
United Press International
April 25, 2006

IRVINE, Calif. (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush told a California audience Monday that terrorists want to use Iraq as a haven, but he has strategy to win the war.

"We've got a strategy in place to achieve victory," Bush said.

The president did not give the specifics of the strategy, other than standing by the new government in Iraq.

"And here's the danger of having an enemy with a safe haven in Iraq," Bush said. "Iraq has got wealth. Iraq has -- had weapons of mass destruction and has the knowledge as to how to produce weapons of mass destruction. And the confluence of a terrorist network with weapons of mass destruction is the biggest threat the United States of America faces."

On another front, Bush said the public was right to demand that the federal government close the borders to illegal immigration.

But it makes sense to let immigrants fill the gap when U.S. employers can't fill jobs, the president added, putting in a push for his proposed guest workers program, now stalled in Congress.

"And it just seems rational to me and logical to me (to propose an idea) that says, OK, fine, you can come and do a job Americans won't do for a temporary period of time with a tamper-proof card," he said.

The president spoke to a group of business leaders in Irvine, Calif.

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