Bush links Iraq insurgency to 9/11, again

From an article in today's New York Times:

Mr. Bush also differed, as he has many times before, with those who say that he has falsely linked the Sept. 11 attacks to Iraq, and that the war there is a distraction from, rather than an integral part of, the fight against terrorism.

Alluding to a chilling new tactic by Iraqi insurgents, using children to lull security guards, Mr. Bush said, “That evil that uses children in a terrorist attack in Iraq is the same evil that inspired and rejoiced in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that evil must be defeated overseas so we don’t have to face them here again.

“If we cannot muster the resolve to defeat this evil in Iraq, America will have lost its moral purpose in the world. And we will endanger our citizens, because if we leave Iraq before the job is done, the enemy will follow us here.”

Don't his statements in the second and third paragraphs directly contradict the claim attributed to him in the first paragraph? If you aren't parsing his words carefully, he seems to be saying that the people who attacked us on 9/11 are now driving the insurgency in Iraq. When you parse carefully it's clear this is not exactly what he's saying. He seems to now be saying that anyone who does something evil in the world is the moral equivalent of those who did something evil to us on 9/11, so fighting those evildoers is equivalent to fighting those who attacked us. In which case, let's send troops right now to Darfur, and Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe, and Chechnya, and Tibet, and everywhere evil is being done!