Bush Aide: 'We Have Not Failed in Iraq' (1 Viewer)

[jujuman13]

Just what planet is he living on?

I do expect some form of comment from TOT & NP.

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My Way News - Bush Aide: 'We Have Not Failed in Iraq'

 

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Just what planet is he living on?

I do expect some form of comment from TOT & NP.

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My Way News - Bush Aide: 'We Have Not Failed in Iraq'

Ha ha ha ha Frank Rich from the New York Times would agree with you.

Has He Started Talking to the Walls?
By FRANK RICH

IT turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isn’t merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from reality. It’s not that he can’t handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn’t know what the truth is.

The most startling example was his insistence that Al Qaeda is primarily responsible for the country’s spiraling violence. Only a week before Mr. Bush said this, the American military spokesman on the scene, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, called Al Qaeda “extremely disorganized” in Iraq, adding that “I would question at this point how effective they are at all at the state level.” Military intelligence estimates that Al Qaeda makes up only 2 percent to 3 percent of the enemy forces in Iraq, according to Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News. The bottom line: America has a commander in chief who can’t even identify some 97 percent to 98 percent of the combatants in a war that has gone on longer than our involvement in World War II. . . .

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[CurrentAffairs]

Why is the opposite viewpoint regarded as a "state of denial" by you liberals? The president doesn't see it like you do. Your frustration in the matter and the way you choose to express it looks so silly. Elect someone in 2008 that wants to do it your way. Until then, it's all jealous rhetoric.

 

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Why is the opposite viewpoint regarded as a "state of denial" by you liberals? The president doesn't see it like you do. Your frustration in the matter and the way you choose to express it looks so silly. Elect someone in 2008 that wants to do it your way. Until then, it's all jealous rhetoric.

Considering he is the ONLY one who feels this way, I think we can deduce that he is in a state of denial.

Maybe you can come up with different adjectives, for a change.

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

He speaks the truth. We have not failed yet, and we don't have to fail. We are headed toward failure, certainly-- whether led by Republicans who will not fight this war properly, or Democrats who will not fight it at all-- but it is not inevitable.

We will not have well and truly failed in Iraq until we abandon our allies in the provisional government and leave the entire country to be ruled by savages.

 

[CurrentAffairs]

Considering he is the ONLY one who feels this way,

You base this on what data?

 

[FierceEnigma12z]

He bases it on no data, because he's obviously not the only person who feels this way. Is it going completely well and dandy? No.But that doesn't mean it's a complete and utter failure.I havent heard anything you Dems are gonna do in power about Iraq (that hasn't been stated before) and Pelosi's silly 100 hours plan crap isan't cutting it."haha lol let's put more troops in" "no wait haha lol let's leave Iraq".

 

[Binary_Digit]

He bases it on no data, because he's obviously not the only person who feels this way. Is it going completely well and dandy? No.But that doesn't mean it's a complete and utter failure.I havent heard anything you Democrats are gonna do in power about Iraq (that hasn't been stated before) and Pelosi's silly 100 hours plan crap isan't cutting it."haha lol let's put more troops in" "no wait haha lol let's leave Iraq".

Haha lol Bush and co. screwed the pooch and now nobody knows how to fix it. Are you surprised?

 

[Donkey1499]

I concur, we have not failed in Iraq... yet. But we may fail if we don't unite and if a Democrat is elected into the Whitehouse in '08.

Instead of listening to the spun stories on Iraq from the press, who is no longer reliable (we are back to the Yellow Journalistic days of Pulitzer; the man who started the Spanish-American War), we should listen to stories told from the troops on the frontlines. and from what I hear, 7/10 it's good news. (Read Tampa Tribune on Sundays to get frontline stories). Like one statistic I've picked up is that since we've liberated Iraq, there are now at least 1 million cell phone users, where as under Hussein, barely anyone had heard of cell phones in Iraq.

Also, assuming that the hard left allows us to fight and win this war President Bush will go down in history as one of the few presidents to have liberated 2+ countries. Oh my, no wonder liberals want us to lose this war. That would mean another successful Republican president, like Reagan and Lincoln.

If we get more democrats in '08, I'm building a radiation proof bunker in my backyard....

 

[jujuman13]

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(We will not have well and truly failed in Iraq until we abandon our allies in the provisional government and leave the entire country to be ruled by savages.)

Much as we did in Vietnam?

 

[Donkey1499]

Actually, (Ret.) Col. Oliver North was on Fox and Friends this morning (from a satilite phone in Iraq) and said our troops in Ramahdi* are CONFIDENT that we can win this War and that the Iraqi military is getting better and stronger everyday! So how 'bout those apples? We ARE winning this war, despite what the big-headed politicians and screwy press folks have to say about it.

I don't no, nor care what the rest of y'all think; but I'd rather believe the soldiers on the frontline who are ACTUALLY THERE than believe the press.

*Ramahdi is one of the hot spots for violence in Iraq. So if things are looking good there, than I have hope for the rest of Iraq.

 

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Actually, (Ret.) Col. Oliver North was on Fox and Friends this morning (from a satilite phone in Iraq) and said our troops in Ramahdi* are CONFIDENT that we can win this War and that the Iraqi military is getting better and stronger everyday! So how 'bout those apples? We ARE winning this war, despite what the big-headed politicians and screwy press folks have to say about it.

I don't no, nor care what the rest of y'all think; but I'd rather believe the soldiers on the frontline who are ACTUALLY THERE than believe the press.

*Ramahdi is one of the hot spots for violence in Iraq. So if things are looking good there, than I have hope for the rest of Iraq.

Oh, well if Oliver North (a man of integrity--NOT) says our troops are confident we can win the war, then we'll win. :roll:

It's interesting that you say you don't care what the rest of us think. If you genuinely meant that, you wouldn't feel the need to post in this thread, now would you? :lol:

 

[Donkey1499]

Oh, well if Oliver North (a man of integrity--NOT) says our troops are confident we can win the war, then we'll win. :roll:

It's interesting that you say you don't care what the rest of us think. If you genuinely meant that, you wouldn't feel the need to post in this thread, now would you? :lol:

Ah, another riddle has been answered... maybe. Because you disagree with Col. North and the soldiers he interviewed, then they must not have any integrity... how saddening. More proof... perhaps... that liberals despise the military.

Liberal Sound Machine: "We support the troops!"
Pssh!:roll: YEAH RIIIGHT! The only thing your tribe supports is losing this war.

You'd claim that a retired Army Colonel has no integrity when you have NO PROOF of such a claim. You don't like the truth, so you attack it. Typical of a lib.


Ah, you caught me. Yes I do care, but only slightly. I had figured that I couldn't get away from this debate unscathed, and my foresight proved to be right, once again. Hahahahaha!!!