Comments on: Bush Delivers Somber Review Of Iraq

President Calls Mounting U.S. Casualties 'Serious Concern' But Rejects Timetable For Pulling Out

[clestes-2009]

meboard a horrible thought has just occurred to me. I was thinking about Nixon too and I just realized gw is going to get worse! He has 2 more years and if the Dems take back any of Congress, gw is going to be even more lost.

Oh, the horror of it all. A rambling prez, paranoid vice prez, and a Congress gunning for both!

What a show-stopper. Only in America!

[pdun1]

Attn All Patriots!

9/11 Wasn an Inside Job!

Learn the Truth! WTC 7 came down and wasnt hit by a plane. Molten Metal found under ground zero proves demolitions were used, its a scientific fact!

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Do not be a blind nationalist!

[pakaal]

Mr. Bush said of the Democrats, "I do not question their patriotism. I question whether or not they understand how dangerous the world is."

This from a guy who hadn't even been out of the country ONCE before becoming President. I've lived outside the US for years, almost got dragged off a plane in Uganda at gunpoint, seen people dying in India, and you know what? I know exactly how dangerous the world can be.

If anything, it's George Bush who doesn't understand how dangerous the world is. His knowledge of foreign affairs and diplomacy have been mocked by the rest of the world since day one, and his policies reflect the worst kind of neo-colonial fantasy.

[meboard]

b4815, so get out of the cesspool! Dumb-azz!

[b4815]

What a cesspool of Bush-bashers.

[marcelde]

"We will not put more pressure on the Iraqi government than it can bear."
President Bush

WE = BUSH

WHAT ABOUT THE PRESSURE OF OUR TRROPS IN IRAQ? OH, I REMEMBER, THAT'S REGRETTABLE. BUT ANYWAY, WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? I THINK THAT 2,796 HAS KIND OF A NICE RING TO IT.

HERE ARE SOME HELPFUL LABELS FOR US TO APPLY TO THOSE "CUT 'N RUNNERS" WHO WANT TO GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF HARM'S WAY: "DEFEATOCRATS" "TAX AND SPEND LIBERALS" "TRAITORS".

THESE SHOULD WORK IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY REASONED ARGUMENT."MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" IS A BIT IFFY RIGHT NOW. ALSO, AVOID "BRING 'EM ON".

IN CASE THOSE LABELS DON'T WORK, TRY THESE FROM THE VIETNAM WAR:

"MY COUNTRY, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT". "BETTER DEAD THAN RED", "THE DOMINO EFFECT WILL HAVE THE COMMIES INVADING HAWAII" (THIS LAST CAN BE ADAPTED TO OUR CURRENT STAYING OF THE CURSE BY SUBSTITUTING "TERRORISTS" FOR "COMMIES"

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND USING "PINKOS" SINCE THE MEDIA FOUND OUT ABOUT OUR PUSH TO INCREASE TRADE WITH VIETNAM BEYOND THE 8 BILLION DOLLAR LEVEL.

THE TRECHEROUS COMMIE PRESS SHOULD KEEP IT'S NOSE OUT OF OUR DEMOCRACY!

[rsoxfan1123]

newster1-good point.

[meboard]

Concur clestes, it reminded me of watching Nixon in his pres confs during the last days of his admin. GW likes to give out more than the press needs to hear by answering his own questions. Bad, bad, mistake! He just ends up rambling on. Did you note he was the only one in the room chuckling to his jocks. The press was in complete amazement of his loss of control.

[clestes-2009]

alphaa10 good post.

[nothappyatall]

allpa2:

The cost is MORE than you cited, STILL to come yet are the estimated 4 MORE years the military brass is gearing up for to stay, ALSO missing is the amount of costs for returning millions of tons of equipment- tanks, planes, jets, helicopters, tents, supplies, trucks, vehicles, uniforms, clothes, ammo, guns and artilery, spare parts, electronics, and all the rest- most of this stuff now is JUNK, it's been worn out, abused, repaired, repaired, repaired by almost 4 years of desert sand, 130: heat and constant use.

ALL of this junk will need to be REPLACED- that's the hidden cost they fail to mention, they fail to mention those $5 MILLION planes are pretty much scrap yard material now.
It will be swept under the rug as being "obsolete" anyway from "older technology", yeah RIGHT!
Like those $50,000 artificial legs we will be replacing every few years for the lives of the injured vets.

[nothappyatall]

"A fixed timetable for withdrawal in my judgment means defeat," the moron said.

In his j udgement, yeah, is this the SAME judgement that sat on his arse for 7 MINUTES reading "My pet goat" after being informed that the country was under attack on 9/11?

Is this the SAME judgement that gave pats on the back to "Good job brownie" after that Katrina FIASCO?

And is this the SAME moron whose judgement invaded another country based on lies, forged documents, lousy "inteligence" and typical Texas Ramboism that now has found NO WMD, NO connection whatsoever to 9/11, whose illegal war has MURDERED thousands of innocent people (including children) and murdered 3000 of OUR guys- more than were killed on 9/11 and no end in sight?

Oh no! it couldn't be, but like father like son I guess so I get them both confused, but just know they are murderous morons.

[clestes-2009]

I think gw is losing it. I really do. This is the worse I have ever seen him blather. He is undermining every positive thing the Reps are doing to try and staunch the bleeding and save the 06 elections.

Did the docs give him a mental check when they did his last physical?

[marcelde]

BUSH SAID, "A fixed timetable for withdrawal in my judgment means defeat,"

PLEASE DEFINE VICTORY. PLEASE DEFINE DEFEAT. PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT OUR TROOPS ARE NOT IN A FOOTBALL GAME BUT IN A FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES IN A CIVIL WAR YOUR ADMINISTRATION PRECIPITATED WITH LIES ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN A PREVIOUSLY SOVERIGN COUNTRY THAT HAD NO CONNECTION TO 911.

"A fixed timetable for withdrawal in my judgment means defeat,"

NOW, PLEASE DEFINE YOUR %u201CJUDGEMENT%u201D.

DO NOT PROP A GANDER! === WE DEMAND PROPER CANDOR!

[curious60]

My friends son worked in Iraq for 2 years for Kellog Brown and Root (Halliburton). It's no secret that the US is building large military bases for the longterm (not hospitals or schools). Do you think this indicates that the Bush administration never had plans to leave Iraq or the Middle East? Does it also indicate that the "war" is actually going the way they planned?

[alphaa10-2009]

Wasn't it just yesterday Khalilzad and Casey announced Iraqi "leaders" had committed to drafting a timetable by year's end to stabilize Iraq, with "some level" of US troop support for that period?

The very next day, Bush announces he's changed his mind?

Bush says a "fixed" timetable means only defeat, but he really means he has no hope in sight for the Iraqis ever taking over. Only three years after "Mission Accomplished!" Bush finally admits he has run out of excuses for Iraq.

And this means Americans will go on losing at least 1,000+ dead yearly and thousands more wounded in a conflict that has cost us $337 billion ($195 million daily)-- so far-- and Bush doesn't feel comfortable pushing matters? Where is his sense of urgency, now?

Apparently, Bush wants to fight only semantic battles over the meaning of "timetable". We have to ask, if you want to get action out of the Iraqis, explain what timetable isn't fixed? What else can measure time vs. progress? Maybe that is why Bush doesn't like a calendar-- to be reminded he is going nowhere in the biggest military disaster of decades.

And now Bush says, "Americans have no intention of taking sides in a sectarian struggle or standing in the crossfire between rival factions." The last thing The Prevaricator in Chief wants to admit is that is exactly what we are doing, right now.

[diamtool]

It is clear that repubs will say anything at this point to get elected. They are scared. They should be. Bush has squandered the lives and limbs of far too many American youth in an ill conceived, unplanned, optional war. No overwhelming force, No exit strategy, lots of nation building. Things the repubs always barked about when they were the minority and democrats were trying to justify military force.
Now a civil war has broken out along predictable, ancient sectarian lines because of Bush's inept planning. 800 million or so in funds missing. Three hours of electricity a day in Baghdad. Bush is paying to train and equip the militias that our troops then have to fight against in Sadr city! This is a disaster of incredible proportions. Unlike Katrina this one is the fault of two or three men. They sold the American people a bill of goods while the people were still shook from 9/11. They misled us down this path for their own unknown reasons. The reasons they gave the people changed constantly and turned out to be lies or mistakes of insufficient diligence or caution. Their hubris and pride led to their fall as it always does. Now "all the king's horses and all the king's men" cannot put it back together again. We the people will have to figure that one out. Starting 11/7.

God Bless our Troops
God Forgive George Bush

[shingles1]

I wasn't actually calling anyone a "traitor" I was just making the point that those who yell "traitor" the loudest often end up supporting policies that are incredibly destructive for our country.

[rsoxfan1123]

shingles1- you're probably right. anyone else would have gone after bin Laden FIRST before "liberating" various oil rich nations.

[patriotic9]

One-American
"We are staying in Iraq until the job is done"
What is the job anyway.If the job has not been done why were we told that MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED.
The way you have repeated same sentence again and again,it shows you might be suffering form OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER which is not a surprise.Most of the RADICAL RIGHT WINGS are MENTALLY SICK people that's why they SEXUALLY MOLEST and SODOMIZE little boys in the churches or SEXUALLY HERASS them like your REPUBLICAN WILD ANIMAL FOLEY.

[shingles1]

The only traitors here are those who've confused being stupid (invading Iraq) with being strong.

Every day bin Laden must wake up and thank his lucky stars that Bush is in office.