Bush Defends Military Buildup In Iraq
As Support For His Policy Plummets, President Likens U.S. Troops To America's Founders
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Despite growing support among Americans for a pullout of U.S troops from Iraq, President Bush used today's radio address to call for patience as his Iraq policy pursues what he called "a surge of operations." (AP)
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President Bush holds up two fingers as he reports on the success of his fishing trip off of Timber Island near Kennebunkport, Maine, Saturday morning, June 30, 2007. His daughter Barbara is at lower right. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Bush's New Iraq Strategy
A glimpse at some of the key elements in President Bush's new plan for Iraq.
"We're still at the beginning of this offensive, but we're seeing some hopeful signs," Mr. Bush said in his weekly radio address, in which he likened U.S. troops deployed around the globe to the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
"We're engaging the enemy, and killing or capturing hundreds," said Mr. Bush, who is losing GOP support for his decision in January to send 30,000 extra troops to Iraq to secure Baghdad and Anbar.
The president said two senior al Qaeda leaders were killed this week north of Baghdad and U.S. troops are finding arms caches at more than three times the rate of a year ago. Despite an upward trend in May, sectarian murders in the Iraqi capital are down from January, Bush said.
He said the last of the U.S. reinforcements just arrived in Iraq earlier this month.
The White House thought it had until September, when military commanders are to give an assessment of Iraq. But most senators now believe troops should start coming home within the next few months, and House Republicans are calling to revive the independent Iraq Study Group to give the nation new options.
"The fight in Iraq has been tough, and it will remain difficult," Mr. Bush said.
He said the Fourth of July on Wednesday will be an opportunity to remember the nation's founders as well as the more than 3,568 men and women of the U.S. military who have died in the Iraq war.
"We remember the spirit of liberty that led men from 13 different colonies to gather in Philadelphia and pen the Declaration of Independence," said Bush, who plans to spend Independence Day with the West Virginia Air National Guard in Martinsburg, W.Va.
"Today, a new generation of Americans has stepped forward and volunteered to defend the ideals of our nation's founding. ... They've helped bring freedom to the Iraqi people," he said. "They've helped make Americans more secure. We will not forget their sacrifice."
Also today, the Senate Democratic leader said some Republicans are "saying the right things on Iraq," but he wants them to vote the right way as well.
In this week's Democratic radio message, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is urging GOP lawmakers to "put partisan politics aside" and vote with the Democrats on the upcoming defense bill.
The Nevada Democrat also accused Republicans of blocking ethics reform and the enactment of 9/11 Commission recommendations.
Reid listed items on his party's agenda that have been able to move forward, like funding Gulf Coast recovery as part of the Iraq spending bill. He also noted successful efforts to raise the minimum wage, provide disaster relief for farmers and fund a health insurance program for low-income children.
In Reid's words, "the progress we've made has not come easy."
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See all 336 CommentsThe only hopeful sign I see is that the coward repub congressmen that has been licking Bush's azz for the last six years is finally leaving him to hang.
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country."
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/iraq/main551946.shtml
Posted by grassdeer at 01:10 PM : Jun 30, 2007
Thank you for your service and may all good things come your way.
Soldiers do not die in vain if they believe they are serving the nation's best interests. It is unfortunate that we currently have an administration and congress who seem to consider looting the US Treasury on behalf of themselves and their war profiteering cronies to be in our best interest.
Soldiers are not dying in vain, they are being murdered by George Bush, his administration, congress and the pentagon.
However, you are only required to obey lawful order.
I strongly encourage you to reconsider your position of "doing anything the (war criminals) [tell you to do]."
"I was just following orders" was not a defense for German Nazis, nor is it a defense for US forces. No US soldier or citizen is required to obey unlawful orders, regardless of source.
Thank you for your service.
US Army MP Corps, 1970-73
Sorry Mr. Bush, but this whole Iraq war has been offensive for several years now. The entire Bush administration has been offensive since 2001.
The exit from Iraq is a vote for Ron Paul, Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich. A vote for the other candidates--Democrat or Republican--is a vote for staying in Iraq and moving on to attack Iran.
Bush is grasping at straws. He doesn't even control Baghdad. Nineteen billion dollars have been flushed down the toilet training Iraqi security forces at, according to Ms. Tyson in a WASHINGTON POST article from the 27th, this is $55,000 per head. 350,000 have been trained. Where are the results? Our Quislings have 350,000 US-trained soldiers and police and they cannot even hold the capital!! Meanwhile we murdered 17 village guards from the air, call them al Qaeda and announce that we have won a famous victory!
i would have no problem putting patraise in front of my platoon and opps i sliped and my weapon went off.
like it happen many times in vetiam. right nco's
Military personnel: You are required by law to disobey all illegal orders given to you, even orders given by the commander in chief. This war was based entirely on lies. It is an illegal war of aggression against a nation that could barely defend itself after many years of undeclared war, which included repeated bombings and denying them food and medicine via "sanctions", killing millions of innocent children. Think about it. You know what you have to do.
Impeach Cheney, then Bush. Convict them of the many war crimes and other "high crimes and misdemeanors" they have committed. Sentence them to life in prison. Not to one of those "country club" prisons; let them experience the real thing. The Spirit of the United States of America, the "greatest country of the world", the "nation of law" demands it.
If they can kill us, we can kill them
Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1
Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907
Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp
But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.
"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml
YOU WILL SEE MORE AND MORE ISRAELI SUPPORTS SPEWING THEIR STAY THE COURSE BUSHIT ON THE NEWS AND IN WASHINGTON AS THE SUPPORT FOR THEIR POLICIES HAVE FALTERED IN AMERICA!
AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP!
TELL OUR POLITICIANS AND THE MEDIA NO MORE MONEY TO THE MIDDLE EAST THEY HAVE NOTHING WE NEED
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
ISRAELIS HIDE BEHIND PROBLEMS THEY HAD IN EUROPE 70 YEARS AGO! AS SOON AS YOU QUESTION THE POLICY OF THESE SLUGS THEY SAY A PERSON IS ANTI SEMITIC! I AM AMERICAN NOT ISRAELI AND OUR TROOPS ARENT EITHER!
"Gen. William Odom discusses the %u201Cworst strategic disaster in American history,%u201D the war in Iraq: the view of most generals that the war is wrong, the failure of the politicians to see the consequences of their actions, the centrality of the neoconservatives and the Israel lobby in pushing for the Iraq invasion, the %u201Csurge,%u201D
www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/
05/10/gen-william-odom
READ AIPAC BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE
ON AMERICAN POLITICIANS!
http://www.aipac.org/for
ms/join_aipacClubs.htm
IT IS NOT ALL THE REPUBLICANS FAULT EITHER AS CARL LEVIN, STENY HOYER AND JOE LIEBERMAN ARE SOME OF THE OTHERS WHO ARE BOUGHT BY AIPAC!
www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/
05/10/gen-william-odom
WE DONT NEED A BUNCH OF ISRAELI PASSPORT HOLDING PRO-ISRAELI NEOCONS TELLING REAL AMERICANS WHAT THEY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO! IT IS BAD ENOUGH THEY HAVE BOUGHT OUR POLITICIANS!
YOU WILL SEE MORE AND MORE ISRAELI SUPPORTS SPEWING THEIR STAY THE COURSE BUSHIT ON THE NEWS AND IN WASHINGTON AS THE SUPPORT FOR THEIR POLICIES HAVE FALTERED IN AMERICA!
AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP!
TELL OUR POLITICIANS AND THE MEDIA NO MORE MONEY TO THE MIDDLE EAST THEY HAVE NOTHING WE NEED
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
ISRAELIS HIDE BEHIND PROBLEMS THEY HAD IN EUROPE 70 YEARS AGO! AS SOON AS YOU QUESTION THE POLICY OF THESE SLUGS THEY SAY A PERSON IS ANTI SEMITIC! I AM AMERICAN NOT ISRAELI AND OUR TROOPS ARENT EITHER!
READ AIPAC BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE
ON AMERICAN POLITICIANS!
http://www.aipac.org/for
ms/join_aipacClubs.htm
IT IS NOT ALL THE REPUBLICANS FAULT EITHER AS CARL LEVIN, STENY HOYER AND JOE LIEBERMAN ARE SOME OF THE OTHERS WHO ARE BOUGHT BY AIPAC!
the satanic cult of peace... hahahahaha
the war Muhammad ali baba started rages on 1400 years later...
623 - Battle of Waddan
623 - Battle of Safwan
623 - Battle of Dul-'Ashir
624 - Muhammad and converts begin raids on caravans to fund the movement.
624 - Zakat becomes mandatory
624 - Battle of Badr
624 - Battle of Bani Salim
624 - Battle of Eid-ul-Fitr and Zakat-ul-Fitr
624 - Battle of Bani Qainuqa'
624 - Battle of Sawiq
624 - Battle of Ghatfan
624 - Battle of Bahran
625 - Battle of Uhud. 70 Muslims are killed.
625 - Battle of Humra-ul-Asad
625 - Battle of Banu Nudair
625 - Battle of Dhatur-Riqa
626 - Battle of Badru-Ukhra
626 - Battle of Dumatul-Jandal
626 - Battle of Banu Mustalaq Nikah
627 - Battle of the Trench
627 - Battle of Ahzab
627 - Battle of Bani Quraiza
627 - Battle of Bani Lahyan
627 - Battle of Ghaiba
627 - Battle of Khaibar
628 - Muhammad signs treaty with Quraish.
630 - Muhammad conquers Mecca.
630 - Battle of Hunsin.
630 - Battle of Tabuk
632 - Muhammad dies.
http://www.carm.org/islam/islam_chronology.htm
mecca, saudi arabia, not washington, d.c.
bow to washington d.c. not mecca.
you'll get a fairer shake from washington
d.c. than from sheiks in mecca, saudi arabia.
take the obsidian and flee to india.
and change your vows to bows.
www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/
05/10/gen-william-odom
WE DONT NEED A BUNCH OF ISRAELI PASSPORT HOLDING PRO-ISRAELI NEOCONS TELLING REAL AMERICANS WHAT THEY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO! IT IS BAD ENOUGH THEY HAVE BOUGHT OUR POLITICIANS!
YOU WILL SEE MORE AND MORE ISRAELI SUPPORTS SPEWING THEIR STAY THE COURSE BUSHIT ON THE NEWS AND IN WASHINGTON AS THE SUPPORT FOR THEIR POLICIES HAVE FALTERED IN AMERICA!
AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP!
TELL OUR POLITICIANS AND THE MEDIA NO MORE MONEY TO THE MIDDLE EAST THEY HAVE NOTHING WE NEED
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
ISRAELIS HIDE BEHIND PROBLEMS THEY HAD IN EUROPE 70 YEARS AGO! AS SOON AS YOU QUESTION THE POLICY OF THESE SLUGS THEY SAY A PERSON IS ANTI SEMITIC! I AM AMERICAN NOT ISRAELI AND OUR TROOPS ARENT EITHER!
READ AIPAC BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE
ON AMERICAN POLITICIANS!
http://www.aipac.org/for
ms/join_aipacClubs.htm
IT IS NOT ALL THE REPUBLICANS FAULT EITHER AS CARL LEVIN, STENY HOYER AND JOE LIEBERMAN ARE SOME OF THE OTHERS WHO ARE BOUGHT BY AIPAC!
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey%u2019s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress%u2019 vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims%u2019 hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.
%u2026that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.
Sound familiar?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison defeated the fascist nazi muslims 200 years ago
And again 100 years ago with Theodore Roosevelt
Tunisia in 1881 by France and Libya in 1911 by Italy. By then most of the Islamic world was under Christian domination. With the Ottoman Empire defeated in WW1, secularist Turkish rebels in 1923 overthrew the last Islamic Caliphate,
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7
Posted by donnie900 at 01:00 PM : Jun 30, 2007
Ahh! Did we get our swastika in a bunch today? ROFLMAO You poor fools are flat getting the *** kicked out of you in your War, that is a fact. So when someone says you need to change direction, find a different method than being an Arrogant Nazi Bully, you lose it. Why? Well as history shows all to clear, you clowns have NEVER won anything.... because you lack the ability to change course, to go from a war footing to a statesman footing. Man are we lucky you losers didn't run WW I or WW II! Sieg Heil Bush!!
And again 100 years ago with Theodore Roosevelt
Tunisia in 1881 by France and Libya in 1911 by Italy. By then most of the Islamic world was under Christian domination. With the Ottoman Empire defeated in WW1, secularist Turkish rebels in 1923 overthrew the last Islamic Caliphate,
http://www.hawaiireporter.
com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-2
9d1c54b0ad7
Posted by lars008 at 03:03 PM : Jun 30, 2007
Right! Now what would a flaming Southern Fascist know about a RADICAL LIBERAL like Jefferson or Madison. I think, if you check the record there Sparky, Jefferson assured our Arab Allies that we were NOT a Christian Nation and we honored the Seperation of Church and State! I do wonder though, why you constantly use statements from old dead liberals instead of Cons? Don't you want to tell us about the con position just before WW II... You know when you choose Hitler over Britian? Sieg Heil Y'all.
The sole reason that Americans do not support this war is more than enough to withdraw. Any politician that supports it, is committing political sucicide.
Since all the Republican political Presidential candidates (even Thompson) support the war (except Ron Paul), this alone insures a Democratic President in 1/2009.
Terror at Beslan
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1316935651894423094
RAPES IN BESLAN: IN MUHAMMAD%u2019S FOOTSTEPS
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic04/NewsST091304.html
Forget Not the Children of Beslan
http://kenlydell.typepad.com/islamic_evil/forget_not_the_children_of_beslan/index.html
Religion of Peace??? More like a cult of death.
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/why_suck/beslan.html
Radical Islamists must be stopped:
comments on the Beslan child slaughter.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/list.htm
. Include our own involvement & understand the zionism & unequallity..... Include an armed military & armed military western nations VS armed civil groups since 1947 ---- DON'T BE NARROW MINDED ABOUT IT
LET'S PUT YOUR 2 DAUGHTERS IN IRAQ AND I JUST MIGHT
CHANGE MY MIND.
rld/asia/article2005592.ece
From the London Times
Cyber-bullies who plague internet chat rooms with obscene and insulting comments will be banned under the first national scheme to strip them of their anonymity.
People going online will be forced to provide their real names and social security numbers under a new law that makes internet portals responsible for policing message boards and weblogs.
The law has been introduced in South Korea, and is certain to be closely monitored by other countries where there is concern over online abuse.
The move, which is decried by some as an overly fierce infringement of online liberties, aims to curb the most damaging excesses of so-called %u201Ckeyboard warriors%u201D %u2013 people who concoct ***-scandals, fraud allegations and other libels that chiefly target figures in the public eye
Welcome to "1984"
Of course, all the clones will look, act and think exactly like Emperor Bush so that there will be no deviation from the required goal of defeating "terrorism" wherever it exists (and some places where it doesn't), destroying weapons of mass destruction wherever they are found (even if they are not found) and bringing "democracy" to the entire world (no matter how high the body count is!).
SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!
Posted by MCVet
He told us it was going to happen. We sent our troops over there, and Bush was right.
He told us that Iran was sending arms and training terrorists in Iraq, and he was right about that.
do most folk still make everyone pay for lunch and such though it's been proven that folk that tend to make folk pay are the folk that tend to make folk suffer and die?
Bush told us we were going to Iraq for a regime change, and we did.
Bush told us that the demoncraps were playing politic's in congress instead of doing the peoples work, and they are.
So why dont you hold all them demoncap congressment over the same fire you are holding bush over, or dont you have the stomach for the truth.
Seems to me, the worst thing that could happen to them demoncrat party is that they behave the same way they have for the last 30 years, because then, it will be very possible for them to actually lose control of congress again. So far, with the amount of rope they have laid out, about the only thing they are doing is hanging themselves.
Posted by doctorwho4 at 03:16 PM : Jun 30, 2007
It's wrong to blame jews for terrorism. I have no problem with either the Jews against Zionism, mostly in New York or Liberal Jews in California.
Source of all the evils are those EUROPEANS and their supporters(It doesn't matter with their Religious Blief) who were brought into Palestine after WWII to occupy the land of those Palestinians by force who had nothing to do with the actions of Hitler.
Innocent Europeans killed by Hitler and price paid by those Palestinians who can't even speak the language spoken by Hitler, or Concentration camps in Germany and Isreal founded far away from Germany in Palestine is as Psychotic as Sins comitted by ADAM and EVE, Sinners are those innocent new born children who cant even think about a sin and price paid by a THIRD PARTY named JESUS, it's as PSYCHOTIC as those who love JESUS are GOD-NEGLECTED and those who deny JESUS are GOD-CHOSEN.
Mother of all the evils is the PSYCHOSIS named CHRISTIANITY.
Last time I checked 77% of America disagreed with you!!! Why do you hate America? Why do you hate the troops?
Although I don't like Hillary because I believe she's a full corporatist, she wouldn't hurt us in the south. We won't be getting many votes from the country of Redneckistan anyway.
FASCIST NAZI ISLAM TO ENSLAVE NON MUSLIM WORLD
HAMAS MICKEY MOUSE SAYS
Islamic rule will benefit Christians and Jews
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 14, 2007
The force behind Hamas TV%u2019s controversial Mickey Mouse clone said today that his children%u2019s television program will continue to promote worldwide Islamic supremacy, for everyone's benefit, including Christians and Jews.
In a long interview on Hamas TV, Hazim Al-Sha%u2019arawi, Deputy Director of Al-Aqsa TV and one of the creators of the Hamas children%u2019s TV show Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers, said that using the program to promote Islamic rule over other religions is actually promoting %u201Cjustice, goodness and world love.%u201D
Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Authority have been under fire since PMW reported last week that Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers was using a character named Farfur, a knockoff of Disney%u2019s Mickey Mouse character, to convey messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews, Israel and the U.S. Despite public statements by PA Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the air until it could be reviewed and revised, a new episode of the program %u2013 featuring Al-Sha%u2019arawi as one of the hosts %u2013 ran Friday.
http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S995NCeaUg
the resumption of hostilities was only a matter of time since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement.....
blame saddam for iraq%u2026%u2026. Even clintoon and the dems wanted the resumption of hostilities back in 1998
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/libact103198.pdf
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec98/cr100598.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/priraq1.htm
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." - President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/US/9802/04/us.un.iraq/
WASHINGTON (Feb. 18) -- In preparing the nation for a possible war with Iraq,
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/18/iraq.political.analysis/
Bush only knows how to "stay the course".
He's criminaly incompetent.
He needs to be thrown out of office.
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