Bush: U.S. Security Tied to Success in Iraq

American Forces Press Service ^ | Sgt. Sara Wood, USA

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2007 – Although most Americans would like to see the conflict in Iraq end and U.S. troops come home, America must persevere in Iraq to ensure its own future security, President Bush said here today.

“No matter how frustrating the fight can be and no matter how much we wish the war was over, the security of our country depends directly on the outcome in Iraq,” Bush said in a White House statement on the 2007 Iraq war supplemental spending bill.

Bush spoke against Congress’s proposed bill, which ties funding for the war with withdrawal deadlines for U.S. troops from Iraq. Setting withdrawal deadlines would let the enemy know exactly how long they have to wait before they can try to take over Iraq and use it as a base for future attacks, he said.

“A lesson of 9/11 is that allowing terrorists to find a sanctuary anywhere in the world can have deadly consequences on the streets of our own cities,” Bush said. “Precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is not a plan to bring peace to the region or to make our people safer at home. Instead, it would embolden our enemies and confirm their belief that America is weak.”

Withdrawing from Iraq before the job is done would be an invitation to terrorists to attack America and its allies around the world, Bush said, and would increase the chance that American troops would have to return to Iraq one day and face a stronger enemy.

Bush said he listened when, in the November 2006 election, the American people voiced a desire for change in the strategy in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new commander of Multinational Force Iraq, is carrying out a strategy that’s drastically different from the previous strategy, Bush said. While the people voted for change in Iraq strategy, Bush added, “the American people did not vote for failure.”

“The price of giving up (in Iraq) would be paid in American lives for years to come,” Bush said. “It would be (an) unforgiveable mistake for leaders in Washington to allow politics and impatience to stand in the way of protecting the American people.”

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[SandRat]

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[Paladin2]

US security tied to border control.

[oyez]

A lot of great things we do go unannounced for security reasons. For instance of one of out construction battalions built a school or a hospital and it got publicity, the Mookies would make a point to blow it up.

[gotribe]

Bush: U.S. Security Tied to Success in Iraq

I hope not.

[DrDeb]

. . . responses that clearly explain why this forum has experienced a reduction in the quality and quantity of its ‘traffic’!

[Paladin2]

My point is that our security is tied to both. We need to be on the offensive.

[gotribe]

Yeah? Well, somebody better figure out Plan B for Iraq: how we maintain security after our troop pullout. The compromising has already begun between the white house and capitol hill.