Comments on: Ex-General: Bush Should Sign Iraq Bill

On Democrats' Radio Time Retired Army Big Says U.S. Squandered Lives

Even leaving the party politics out of it, it's not hard to see that GW Bush's Iraq policies haven't worked.

So why are they so blind to his failures?

If GW Bush ran a business like he's been running this war, his competitors would be raking in the money and his business would be bankrupt.

[vancouverboo]

Bush should sign his Resignation papers and spend the rest of his life in shame in Texas.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom stated:

"The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place," he said. "The president has let (the Iraq war) proceed on automatic pilot, making no corrections in the face of accumulating evidence that his strategy is failing and cannot be rescued. He lets the United States fly further and further into trouble, squandering its influence, money and blood, facilitating the gains of our enemies."

How true.

I don't understand why *some* Republicans can't see it as well.

Maybe they do - they just refuse to admit it.

[skyk-2009]

am a registered Democrat (do I always agree with them? - NO), but I find it hard to support the democratic party if they will not stand up to defend our constitution. The American people want Bush & Cheney out, but the democrats (except Kucinich) are trying to stay distant to save their campaigns. Hillary, Obama, Edwards & the rest - where are your guts - DON'T YOU REALLY WANT THE REPUBLICANS OUT?!

This one single act has me very dissapointed with the democratic party. Kucinich - remind me to share a beer with you after this is all over!
Posted by ndg1979 at 02:51 AM : Apr 29, 2007

You do NOT talk like a Democrat so I suspect you may not be one. Democrats differ with the other side in ONE specific way. They understand the many different views and many methods of achieving a needed goal. Democrats have always been a party of DEBATE and Differences... that is their history and has always been. IF you want a lock step approach to doing something. If you want it done NOW and out of the way, you belong with the Fascist. THEY have only one view and one position.

[skyk-2009]

Bush may well have been wrong on Iraq (as was Clinton and Gore before him) but we arrived here through the normal, flawed process by which our government works. The commenters here calling for impeachment are, essentially, threatening the rest of us with political chaos for no other reason than it satisfies their desire to turn America's political landscape into a leftist mob-state.
Posted by WildM3 at 07:59 AM : Apr 29, 2007


What good does it do to continue to LIE like this. I'm serious! You people in the Reich just keep up with this tired old line and it's a LIE. Clinton did believe Saddam had weapons but he also said very clearly after he bombed Saddam that that ability was taken away. The basic point though is that NO ONE other than BUSH told us, the people of this nation, that we could NOT wait on the INSPECTORS that were there and checking out the claim that Weapons existed. GEORGE BUSH and BUSH ALONE decided to INVADE this nation and remove those INSPECTORS. He said we could NOT wait and that the evidence was so great that the Inspectors were NOT needed. He had the "Smoking Gun" that Saddam had Chemical Weapons and Nukes that would be used against this nation. The Vice also said that he had PROOF POSITIVE that Saddam was directly linked to Bin Laden. That's what happened PEOPLE and it was ALL LIES!!

[jn122736]

WildM3 said:
%u201CTHIS FORUM SEEMS FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE LIVING IN A REPUBLIC WHERE DECISIONS, ONCE MADE, MUST BE FOLLOWED THROUGH%u201D
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This is the most idiotic statement I have read so far on the subject of the Iraq fiasco although it does seem to fit this presidents actions and policy decisions.

Anybody, regardless of IQ, can make mistakes. Such mistakes may be attributable to carelessness, rushing to judgment, or any number of other reasons.
But to say that you must not or cannot change and or reverse a bad decision simply because it has already been initiated, defies all logic and reflects seriously on the motivation and character of the spokesperson.

[imprisonbush]

WildM3 writes:

"Bush gained the assent of congress before committing troops to war - it was not "illegal."

You leave out the crucial fact that Bush gained any support of Americans and Congress by deceiving everyone about the existence of Saddam's threat to the world with WMD [among other things]. Bush [and Cheney] has continued to falsely assure America that we are making great progress in Iraq, challenging the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Mission Accomplished. Last throes. Greeted with open arms as liberators. Remember these claims? Only when even Bush's dog disputes their ridiculous claims of success and progress [after the election where his party was thrown out], Bush finally starts to admit that things in Iraq really are not going so well. Really?? But don't worry, the incompetent and deceitful boob has a NEW and IMPROVED plan: after squandering hundreds of thousands of American and Iraqi lives for four years and blowing hundreds of billions of dollar (and incurring debt we cannot pay), we are going to throw a few more troops at them. Forget about any statesmanship. Just more of the same military action. It does not matter to him that most of Americans, generals and Congress did not support the Shrubs new "judgment." Once again, he was willing to go it alone. And you wonder why everyone calls this Bush's war and are screaming when everything seems to be going into the toilet? The little war criminals need to be tried and hung for treason.

[bluestardad]

gkc99; no one of honor in the bush administration they are all taking the 5th!

VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT A REPUBLICAN EVEN SCOOBIE DO WOULD BE BETTER FOR AMERICA THAN BUSH CHENEY AND THEIR ISRAELI, SAUDI ARABIAN MIDDLE EAST PARTNERS!

AIPAC and PNAC are the Weekly Standard Support Israeli Groups who William Kristol is hooked up with. All are Neocon Chicken Hawks who gladly sell American Lives for the Interest of Israel!

The American Enterprise Institute came up with this Surge Plan Not American Generals! Bush fired them cause they did not want to surge troops!

Contact Information Reuel Marc Gerecht

American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Assistant: 202-862-5926
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]


Here are Senators from Military states THAT keep our troops in this Civil War in Iraq! 101st Airborne in Kentucky and 82nd Airborne In North Carolina! Write them let them know they work for America not Israeli Government!

McConnell, Mitch- (R - KY)
361-A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm

nDole, Elizabeth- (R - NC)
555 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Con
tactInformation.C...



Graham, Lindsey- (R - SC)
290 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contac
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[gkc99]

So Bonzo Bushit dares to criticize the Congress for "not listening to the men in uniform" while he has fired every general who dares to disagree with him. For a coward like Bushit, who went AWOL from even his slackass Texas Air National Guard "service", and Richard "Chickenshithawk" Cheney, who dodged the draft adeptly even in his generally pro-Vietnam war state of Wyoming, to fire Shinseki and all others who dared demur, to criticize on this basis, is ludicrous. Is there any person of honor left in the Bonzo Bushit administration?

[wildm3]

Please accept my apologies - when the "Publish" button was disabled after my comment, I assumed that it had not accepted my comment so I just kept retrying... If a forum admin can delete all but the newest comment, I would appreciate it!