Posted on 01/26/2007 7:53:15 AM PST by Lucky9teen
WASHINGTON — President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his plan.
"I've picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.
The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are lining up to support resolutions opposing his decision to send 21,500 troops to Iraq. He challenged them to put up their own ideas. "Some are condeming a plan before it's even had a chance to work," he said.
Bush said lawmakers agree that failure in Iraq would be a disaster and that he chose a strategy that he and his advisers thought would help turn the tide in Iraq.
The president met with Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, newly confirmed by the Senate to command U.S. troops in Iraq.
"My instruction to him was `Get over to the zone as quickly as possible, and implement a plan that will achieve our goals,"' Bush said.
"You're going into an important battle in the war on terror," he told Petraeus.
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Amen Mr. President.
You beat me by 3 minutes
An interesting challenge for all those 08 wannabe's ... will they move now to oppose Bush but dilute their own authority should they grab the brass ring?
It's about time Bush stood up for something. The MSM-o-Rats have been too loud and unchallenged for too long.
They have been emboldened and are emboldening the enemy in the process.
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The Dems told the whole world that they wanted to lose the War on Terror when they refused to support VICTORY.
The American people need to know that they want to demoralize the troops and lose the war for political gain alone.
They are traitors. Period.
The President has NEVER wavered in the fight against terror. Never.
Bush rocks. These Dem's are idiots. They are putting our nation at risk for base political gain.
I hope Duncan Hunter is the GOP nominee to replace Bsh in '08. Duncan will be the just as tough on WOT and Iraq.
""There are about 152,000 US (troops) in Iraq today," Army Brigadier General Carter Ham, deputy director for regional operations for the military's Joint Staff, told a Pentagon briefing." 10/08/2005
So since 10/08/2005 there has been a troop reduction of 32,000!
Where were the barking dogs then??
http://www.unitedforpeace.org just sent out an emergency email notification calling for a March on Washington tomorrow, January 27th, 2007
Nice to see GWB showing some cajones.
Too little to late I am afraid.
Some cajones on domestic issues would have been nice over the last eight years.
As it is, government has grown and bigger more intrusive than ever - and BWB is leaving it all to the democRATS.
Tell'em Mr. President!
"http://www.unitedforpeace.org just sent out an emergency email notification calling for a March on Washington tomorrow, January 27th, 2007"
Thank Goodness. That should make rounding them up for giving aid and comfort to the enemy a lot easier...
I agree on the not wavering on the WOT. It is all the other things he has not provided solid leadership on like immigration, social security, drilling in ANWR. Had he been as unwavered on those positions, the demoRats would never have blocked those initiatives so easily so they could focus all their attention on making the Iraq war another failure..
Had Bush been successful on those issues, the WOT would not have become the issue that appeared to defeat the GOP out of the majority. It was the lack of success on the other issues that would have changed the opinions of progress that voters weigh against failures. actual or percieved. Bush has sold his mission to me and I believe in the WOT. It is his failure to keep a positive approach to the WOT as opposed to allowing the MSM Lobby turn everything into a negative that gives the DemoRats more hysterical ammo against the war.
The president's tormentors in Congress, some old and some new, insist they don't have anything against the fine young Americans with their lives on the line in Iraq, but the troops are dispensable to the larger partisan goal of destroying George W. and abdicating the responsibility that comes with being the world's only superpower. If the troops are hurt, too, well, that's just a risk the critics will have to endure.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/pruden.htm
I am as far away from being a demoncrap or RINO Representative or Senator as one can be but I'll put up a plan. NUKE EM! Stop trying diplomacy. Pull our troops out. Hit Iraq with as many nukes as we can to kill every single man woman and child in that country. Tell all other countries that the civilized world isn't going to put up with their childish s*** any longer and then start dividing the radioactive countryside of Iraq between the surrounding nations to clean up and use how they see fit provided they use it in a way that is conducive with living peacefully with the rest of the world.
Anything less than this is a waste of time. There is never a real and lasting peace so long as you have people that want to kill you. One once said, "There is no peace so long as your enemy is alive." Bush and all others wishing to use diplomacy to strike a lasting peace in the Islamic world is deceiving themselves and lying to the world.
Of course this is just my opinion.
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