Posted on 06/15/2006 4:01:18 AM PDT by NJRighty
June 15, 2006 -- WHO'D have thought it possible even a month ago? President Bush is getting his mojo back.
The president just had the best week of his second term, perhaps of his entire presidency - and the end of the investigation of Karl Rove, which would have been the headline grabber not long ago, had little to do with it.
Instead, the president's brilliantly conceived and executed trip to Baghdad - giving exactly the right boost at the right time to new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - capped off seven days that included the forming of a full Iraqi Cabinet and the success of the U.S. military in locating, bombing and killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the sadistic Jordanian-born insurgency leader that Osama bin Laden once called the "prince of Iraq."
Equally significant, the night Zarqawi died, American forces staged 17 raids on insurgent targets. By Monday, they had launched 140 more. On the day of the president's visit, 75,000 troops fanned out over Baghdad, ordered to clear the Iraqi capital of the violence and anarchy that has plagued it for months.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I always thought we were realists.
Given all the blessings which have been showered on our nation, optimism is usually realistic.
But the realism comes first.
He's good a rope-a-dope too. Come Nov. whose going to be listening when they hear the same Dem accusation for the 1,000th time.
Hey fella hold on! Give it a rest.
While I am at odds with the POTUS over illegal immigration, you got to give the fella his due.
If you want real results. Lean on your Conress Critter!
That is how things get done.
That's a great article.
Anyone that would piss all over it because of illegal speeders deserves no respect.
It only took the third post for the hijack of another good thread by the all immigration all the time advocates. you are turning most freepers off, and pretty soon the threads will only be 5 posts because of your inability to comment without the segue' into illegals.It has become like an addiction to a drug. You all are getting to be as popular as someone walking into a Dance with dogpoop on his shoes. Stay on topic not everything to be discussed cogently is about immigration.
Where did you read or hear this? I'm still sitting here going "Wow", thinking about the pendrive. The raids afterward must have been on the creme of the crop.
It amazes me how the MSM (and many of us) forget that GW is an old and talented poker player. He has a poker player mentality.
He does not play bad hands.
When he has a hand - he draws his opponents into the pot.
He studies his opponents.
He never plays his hand early - he lets dealer put the cards on the table.
In other words - he thinks - he strategizes.
History will show that GW played politics strategically - not with day-to-day tactics like Clinton did.
I'll ping you to where I read it.
I've noticed that they have really learned in the last several months how to push the right buttons to stir up the unappeasibles. The unappeasables fall for it like a bunch of dumb suckers.
Check your pings..
Are bushbots really conservatives? I don't think so anymore. They spend so much time defending Bush's liberal policies along with the few conservative victories he's had that I don't think they are conservatives just "Bush followers". Sometimes I think they bow in prayer to the east (the White House) instead of to the cross.
Al-Rubaie said a thumbdrive, a laptop and other documents were found in the debris after the airstrike that killed the al-Qaida in Iraq leader last week and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then.
He called it a "huge treasure ... a huge amount of information."
When asked how he could be sure the information was authentic, al-Rubaie said "there is nothing more authentic than finding a thumbdrive in his pocket."
"We believe that this is the beginning of the end of al-Qaida in Iraq," al-Rubaie said, adding that the documents showed that al-Qaida is in "pretty bad shape," politically and in terms of training, weapons and media.
" "Now we have the upper hand," he said, speaking in English and Arabic at a news conference in Baghdad. "We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days."
Was his mojo ever missing?
Not a bad analogy. Just curious - which is you think better - being a great poker player or a great chess player?
Simply mind blowing.
Now he needs to go to Mexico and tell Fox the parties over.
Worse, he's acting like a "moderate" (on many issues, anyway).
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