Posted on 01/15/2005 8:39:28 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.
"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."
With the Iraq elections two weeks away and no signs of the deadly insurgency abating, Bush set no timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops and twice declined to endorse Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's recent statement that the number of Americans serving in Iraq could be reduced by year's end. Bush said he will not ask Congress to expand the size of the National Guard or regular Army, as some lawmakers and military experts have proposed.
In a wide-ranging, 35-minute interview aboard Air Force One on Friday, Bush laid out new details of his second-term plans for both foreign and domestic policy. For the first time, Bush said he will not press senators to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the top priority for many social conservative groups. And he said he has no plans to cut benefits for the approximately 40 percent of Social Security recipients who collect monthly disability and survivor payments as he prepares his plan for partial privatization.
Bush was relaxed, often direct and occasionally expansive when discussing his second-term agenda, Iraq and lessons he has learned as president.
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"But have a great time at your inaugural parties. Somehow my invitation must have been lost in the mail. I'm sure that my under $100 contribution (yet everything I could afford) had nothing to do with that (heh heh)."
Makes no sense, just like the rest of your post.
And "Republican Wildcat calls me senseless. I never made claims to being privy to such, just chided you "bots" for trying to place a mortal being on a pedestal. We got the best candidate our choices afforded - be happy. I'm going to fight him where he's wrong because I believe our predecessors didn't give their efforts and very lives to see this country handed over to the United Nations and bent over to be Mexico's bitch. Please pardon my language, good ladies out there, but I'm at a loss to find any way to put that more delicately.
It was too close for comfort. The bright side is that even with most of the media and almost all of the culture leaders in favor of Kerry, he couldn't raise enough support to get elected.
Look people rejected Kerry, that is not the same thing as ratifying Iraq policy. We will know in a couple of years about that, I think. It will depend on events outside of control and prediction, but that is not W's fault. We tried, and now we will see if we made a difference in the long run.
Agreed. I do think even if Americans don't like the Iraq war they don't want to repeat the mistakes we made in getting out of Vietnam.
He is exposing more about the lefty media than anything else by giving these interviews, imo. That's a bonus.
3% perecentage points is close. He also had the most votes against him than any candidate in history. He won, but "squeaker" is accurate.
You can't spin math.
He also got more votes for him than any candidate in history. You're right. You can't spin math.
Ah, there's the problem. Tunnel vision.
I hope that there was more to what he actually said because I would hope that the President would hold accountable people who gave him bad advice or bad information.
I believe the president says things to deliberately enrage the loony left.
I love it!
2000 was a "squeaker" - 2004 was not .. regardless of your math trumps all attitude. I find it interesting that the dems are all saying the same thing you are .. Hmmmm?
It wasn't a squeaker to me - and if all the illegal votes the dems used were eliminated - it would probably have been more like 5%.
Exactly, we'll put. To argue that it wasn't close doesn't lend any support to a leftist agenda.
Talk about saying things the dems are saying... Let me guess - the illegal votes were a result of Diebold machines... Tin foil hat alert.
Don't try to turn this around and say I'm some sort of kook - we already know some of the tricks the democrats do in order to get votes .. they have been widly publicized .. and no .. I'm not blaming the Diebold machines.
You might find out more if you would check my FReeper page before you start spouting your KOOK stuff! Geeeeeez, all you have to do is look at the election in Washington state and see what the dems do with elections. It's funny .. I don't see Jesse or Conyers out there in WA demanding that every vote count - especially when there are 8400 more votes than they have registed voters.
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO's AGREEING WITH THE DEMS - WHO ARE SAYING THIS ELECTION IS A "SQUEAKER" - NOT ME.
Get an education - seriously.
ROTFLOL!!
You poor thing .. can't take the challenge huh??
The challenge of arguing logically with a believer? No I can't - your belief is stronger than my facts. Good luck with that.
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