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Bush trumpets Iraq terror leader's death
AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/10/06 | Jennifer Loven - ap

Posted on 06/10/2006 10:55:39 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON - President Bush was celebrating "a good week for the cause of freedom," with the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the completion of Baghdad's government, as he huddled with advisers.

"We will determine how to best deploy America's resources in Iraq and achieve our shared goal of an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "There's still difficult work ahead in Iraq. Yet this week, the ideology of terror has suffered a severe blow."

The president was spending the weekend at Camp David, Md., preparing for extended meetings there next week on Iraq after he conferred Friday at the presidential retreat with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a staunch ally.

On Monday, Bush is gathering his top national security advisers, including military commanders reporting from the field in Iraq, and members of his Cabinet. They will hold two long sessions, broken up by a lunch featuring outside experts with a range of views and capped off by dinner. On Tuesday, the president and his team are holding a joint Cabinet meeting of sorts, talking via video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a dozen or so of his government ministers.

The White House discouraged speculation the Camp David meetings would produce a troop-cutback formula. "This is not a meeting about drawdowns," White House counselor Dan Bartlett said. "It's a meeting about how can we best help the Iraqis help secure their country."

The meetings were scheduled before the events of this week — al-Zarqawi's death from a U.S. airstrike on Wednesday and the Iraqi parliament's approval Thursday of three key security ministers in al-Maliki's government.

But with the war dragging down his approval rating and clouding Republican election hopes for November, the developments were welcome at the White House.

Al-Zarqawi's death was not expected to end the unrelenting violence in Iraq, or bring a speedy withdrawal of American troops. In fact, Bush predicted attacks may increase.

"The terrorists and insurgents will seek to prove that they can carry on without Zarqawi," he said.

Still, the president portrayed the loss of the insurgency's most visible leader as progress. "The killing of Zarqawi is an important victory in the global war on terror," he said.

Likewise, the political appointments in Iraq, which came after a long impasse, drew cheers in Washington. The Bush administration hopes a stable, effective government will help sap the Sunni Arab-driven insurgency of popular support.

"These new leaders will help the government address its top priorities: reconciliation, reconstruction and putting an end to the kidnappings, beheadings and suicide bombings," Bush said. "As they pursue these goals, they will have America's full support."

Democrats also celebrated the week's events, but said Bush should use the opportunity to present the country a concrete plan for making it "a year of significant transition."

"Our troops and the American people have been exceedingly patient as previous mileposts in Iraq have passed without progress. The president is asking too much if he expects us to do it again," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in the Democratic radio address. "With Zarqawi gone and the cabinet filled, we need more than platitudes next week when the president convenes a conference with Iraq's leaders and his war Cabinet."

The decision to hold meetings at the wooded compound in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains gives them a high profile they might not have if they were held at the White House. Bush said Friday that he decided to convene his team at the rustic, remote property where, cell-phone service is spotty, "because it can be distracting down in Washington with phone calls and all this kind of stuff."

"The prime minister has put forward a strategy as to how to achieve his objectives, which coincide with our objectives: a nation that can sustain itself, govern itself and defend itself," Bush said at a joint news conference with Fogh Rasmussen. "And we want to review all aspects of that strategy."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; death; iraq; leader; terror; trumpets; zarqawi; zarqawikilled
2 days ago, BBC say 'Bush hails Zarqawi's death', today AP says Bush 'trumpets' his death.

Maybe it's just me, I'm being too sensitive about the use of the word trumpets in the title.

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Bush hails Zarqawi death in Iraq ^

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Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach

On News/Activism ^ 06/08/2006 8:23:10 AM PDT · 9 replies · 258+ views

BBC ^ | Thursday, 8 June 2006, 14:47 GMT 15:47 UK | BBC Staff

Bush hails Zarqawi death in Iraq Pictures of Zarqawi's body were put on display by the US US and UK leaders have hailed the death of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, blamed for killing thousands in Iraq's insurgency.President George W Bush said his death in a US air raid was a severe blow to al-Qaeda and "justice" for Zarqawi. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was "very good news". Both leaders said Zarqawi's death would not end unrest. The news

1 posted on 06/10/2006 10:55:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

They're preparing their assault on the President when terrorist violence hits levels comparable or higher than before Zarqawi's death.


2 posted on 06/10/2006 10:57:01 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: NormsRevenge

You gotta see this:

http://hotair.com/archives/vent/2006/06/09/zarqawis-end/


3 posted on 06/10/2006 10:57:54 AM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: NormsRevenge

Trumpets? Hails? These folks are hopeless. No self-esteem. It must really suck to be them and have no idea who you are.


4 posted on 06/10/2006 11:00:56 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("I see dead people...and illegal immigrants...voting in the next election")
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To: bnelson44

I saw it earlier... great right.


5 posted on 06/10/2006 11:01:33 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("I see dead people...and illegal immigrants...voting in the next election")
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To: bnelson44

Woo Hoo, LOL that's great.


6 posted on 06/10/2006 11:02:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: bnelson44; Allegra
Thanks bnelson44! Awesome, loved every second of it. MM did a stupendous job.

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7 posted on 06/10/2006 11:08:20 AM PDT by Chgogal (The US Military fights for Freedom of the Press while the NYT lies about the Military and cowers...)
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To: NormsRevenge
The "Message" is...

Dear Terrorists,
You too can be just as dead as Zardipshit, crawl back in your hole and you will have to wait for a PC Lib to be in charge of the most powerful Nation on Earth before ever showing your coward faces again.

When is the next deck of playing cards coming out? We need to update it.

TT
8 posted on 06/10/2006 11:10:39 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: MadIvan

You may enjoy this.


9 posted on 06/10/2006 11:12:01 AM PDT by Chgogal (The US Military fights for Freedom of the Press while the NYT lies about the Military and cowers...)
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To: NormsRevenge

I don't think you're being too sensitive about the word "trumpets." As if he needed to trumpet the news. It was the top story on its own. What I think happened is that on the day the news broke, the MSM reported on how muted GW's statement was, that he wasn't the old braggin' Texan, yadda yadda. And it appears to me that the WH deliberately came out the next day to sort of recalibrate their response, and underline a little more strongly the celebratory side of it. They were perhaps even a tad TOO cautious at first. So he came out and made it clear that it's worth celebrating, and so here comes the MSM to bitch about it.


10 posted on 06/10/2006 11:12:28 AM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
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To: NormsRevenge

No, the word "trumpets" is totally disgusting. It leaps out at anyone who knows the ways of media agitprop.

Rooters, AFP, and CNN used to be the worst, but recently AP has been outdoing them all. Nothing but vile, disgusting traitors.


11 posted on 06/10/2006 11:20:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bnelson44

BINGOOOO!!

Thanks!

WOO HOOOOO!!!!


12 posted on 06/10/2006 11:21:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
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To: bnelson44

WOOHOO! Thanks for that link!


13 posted on 06/10/2006 11:29:07 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: bnelson44

Thank you for that wonderful link...and thank you, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.


14 posted on 06/10/2006 12:11:55 PM PDT by Bahbah (Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
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To: NormsRevenge
"WASHINGTON - President Bush was celebrating "a good week for the cause of freedom,"

Yup. W and Laura were on the front law firing their AK47s in the air in jubilee. There were parades down Pennsylvania Avenue which were followed by a black tie dinner attended by UN dignitaries.

15 posted on 06/10/2006 12:58:24 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: bnelson44

Thank you! Great music, who is it?


16 posted on 06/10/2006 1:32:24 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
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To: NormsRevenge
Give PravdABDNC a break, they're still in Mourning!

Pray for W and Our Troops
17 posted on 06/10/2006 1:39:02 PM PDT by bray (Hey Zaqueeri, how ya like those IEDs???)
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To: Cicero
No, the word "trumpets" is totally disgusting. It leaps out at anyone who knows the ways of media agitprop.

Which are a few. Most patriotic Americans are happy to let the President trumpet this. And trumpet the troops who killed an infamous terrorist.

I think that this should give Bush enough cover to intervene on behalf of our Haditha heroes. His poll numbers should be going up substantially now, and people will be in less of a mood to brand our heroes in the war on terror as murderers.

18 posted on 06/10/2006 2:41:21 PM PDT by detroitdarien
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