Bush's stupid statements go unquestioned

How is it that quotes like this, on a major news feed, go completely unquestioned? There should be a paragraph following this statement in every newspaper and every television broadcast that explains how false it is. On two levels: one, just because we are there doesn't somehow fence a terrorist in so plotting and planning non-Iraq attacks is curtailed; two, Iraq had NOTHING to do with the September 11 attack in the U.S.

CNN.com: Rumsfeld says three-quarters of an election is better than nothing:"
He [Bush] also said that "if we stop fighting the terrorists in Iraq, they would be free to plot and plan attacks elsewhere, in America and other free nations. To retreat now would betray our mission, our word and our friends."