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Posted on 12/06/2006 2:06:31 PM PST by Sabramerican
JOHN Bolton's resignation as the American ambassador to the United Nations makes it official: The Bush administration is now drifting idly toward a mixture of centrism and impotence.
In less than a month, two of President Bush's stronger and more independent aides - Donald Rumsfeld and Bolton - have been dispatched. Rumsfeld's designated successor, former CIA head Robert Gates, is a leading member of the Beltway's permanent bureaucracy.
The administration seems to be waiting for the Baker-Hamilton commission of old Washington hands to dictate U.S. policy on Iraq. Leaks from the commission suggest it will recommend a gradual U.S. withdrawal camouflaged by negotiations with Iran and Syria over a new Mideast grand bargain.
All of this feeds an exaggerated defeatism in the United States over Iraq.
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Rumsfeld's abrupt firing was an act of flagrant disloyalty to a loyal subordinate. The defense secretary had made his share of mistakes - notably, his failure to crush looting immediately after the fall of Baghdad - but he had followed the president's policy faithfully.
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We don't know for certain the reasons for Bolton's departure: Either the White House wasn't prepared to fight for him, or he was no longer prepared to lend his voice to the diplomatic charade over Iran and North Korea. Either way, his departure demonstrates timidity on the administration's part. The net result will be that Bush has one less loyal subordinate in the shrinking ranks of his own administration.
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You can take your stuff and peddle it elsewhere.
Zotting people you disagree with? How infantile.
Anyhow, it looks like the Bushbots are outnumbered on this thread. Maybe you're the troll.
That's a very good question. You will just have to take it from me that I am. I am one of those rare individuals that joins FR maybe once every 10 years :)
OK I better head home. 202 is going to be all backed up.
Actually, your profile says you're a big fan of Rush Limbaugh, who certainly hasn't held back in criticizing the President recently. Is he a troll, too? A troll on the radio? Do you still listen to Rush?
There is NOTHING conservative about this war, nothing in it that any conservative should care about. That's why almost every well known conservative pundit, with the notable exception of Mark Steyn (although in his latest in NR he admits how badly things stand right presently), do not support the war. Even Jonah Goldberg, a frontline cheerleader back in the day, now calls Iraq a "mistake."
Dead-end all you want in support of the Iraq fiasco. It won't change the outcome, which will turn out to be humilation and failure for United States, all thanks to George W. Bush and his personal vendetta against a nasty dictator.
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Pure unadulterated BS!
The President has figuratively and rightfully told us to go to hell.
Other than 2 justices, which we would have had anyway if the Gang of 14 had not stopped the Nuclear Option, Bush accomplished almost nothing in 2 years, and it is due to a combination of unfair attacks from his opponents inappropriately replied to, and idiotic sniping by disaffected GOP grandees insufficiently reined in. Whose fault is that? All of them, except for the Dems. We expect them to be unfair, liberal and wrong.
Why does it feel like 1974 all over again? Next we get 4 years of the Hildabeast, then a resurgence of Conservatism in 2010. Any bets?
The friggin' presidential election is TWO YEARS AWAY! Get a life!
AMEN!
In a Republic, I believe it comes down to the voters.
It's not the President's fault that some milquetoast voters keep voting milquetoast Senators in. And it's not the President's fault that conservatives swallow whatever negative garbage the MSM feeds them. That's the fault of ignorant voters.
For example...Taliban resurgence in Afganistan? LOL. Just what Hillary and her Paula Zahn cohorts want you to believe.
And I with you. It's PRESIDENT Bush, Joe. Show some respect.
The media is totally responsible in my opinion too. They have been constant and relentless. As long as the American media is in bed with the Democrats/Libs, we don't stand a chance. They, too, ALSO learned from the Reagan/94 revolutions. They've learned quite well how to fight conservatism and have succeeded.
I think that is what is so depressing. It's going to take a major castrophre to wake up the unpolitical voter.
In this avenue of true power.....Iraq has worked well.
As U.S. Dollars flood the mid east....and Afghanistan[Dope-istan].
The U.S. Dollar is the coin of choice of the crimminal Sunni/Shia,....which extends from great nation centres....to grotty dens of pyschopaths in Lebanon to Pakistan.
Russia and China offer little resistence to America's move...as they are both swimming intoxicated in U.S. Dollars.
Some 500 Million in Bribes went down in Russia in 2005 as reported by Russia Blog.
The money game is however tapering off in Iraq,....as Bechtel didi's allong with other main contractors.
Rumor is that former lost oil signatory of U.S. and B.P. in Iraq has been restored...with pledges that Iraq will not borse or follow Irans Borse attempt.
The Baker /Gates Iraq surrender group likely is giving Iran its invasion pass card for not borsing against the U.S. Dollar..or turning Iraq into Theocracy.
Iraq will continue in sectarian murder-death-kill until it is partitioned.
Things however do not go as planned.
U.S./CIA sided with Uncle Ho and allowed him to do his Communist purge run to ensure strongman in the region for narcotics and other fiscal endeavors.
Ho coperated handsomely...even besting the French as a sign of feilty [Game the French out of Indo China]
What exactly went down to turn Ho against the U.S. is speculation.....there are some books out there with theories.
anyhoo....Ho got pissed off and went Rogue....and eventually Vendetta towards U.S. Dollar imperative.
Platform Shoe Midgit of N.K. is kinda quiet right now....rumor is his offshore fantasy reality has been run to ground by Globalists...and with that...much of his narcotics run.
Iran is kinda quiet of late too....me thinks they have been touched : )....and consider their fate of the wheel in..."Two men enter....One man leaves"
They are not ready to take on the U.S. right now.....China and Russia are not ready themselves for the big break against the U.S. Dollar.
But down the road...it will occur,....or posture significantly enough that there will indeed be war,
Saudi Arabia has seriously underperformed in Iraq by its management of the miserable Sunni.
Look for Saudi Arabia to be Troubled by design in the next decades.
Allthough I can't stand Bob Woodard,...his report of a meeting at the beginning of Bush admin where power men gathered and said in one accord...."We have unfinished Business in Iraq" is spot on.
Now there is unfinished Business with Iran.....and Saudi Arabia.
Even Chavez is backpeddling in his Rhetoric....signs that his money is in jeopardy.
WW-2....The last true conflict where what was said was followed with resolve and clarity....issues spoken truly from the Government and too the people.
Since then..its been a downward slide of deceptive rhetoric and concession....playing both sides In All Matters.
Trust is nearly non existant now.
"In God We Trust".....dispatched to the rim of the coin.
All that accomplished and the USA will be pretty much destroyed as a nation that we would recognize
What ever happened to the conservative principle of self reliance and taking responsibility for ones own actions? An optimistic individual might perform some research and help other FRiends with clear and concise information to convincingly discredit liberal media propaganda. Such mentoring and inclusion has been woefully lacking on the forum of late. Rather, personal attacks and accusations of hate and divisiveness has ruled the agenda. Blame the MSM, blame disillusioned and misinformed voters, and blame the perceived ignorance of everyone else in the United States and the world. Or use the God given intellect that one has been granted to engage in constructive research and dialog amongst fellow conservatives. With a little bit of respect and dignity.
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