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HOW W GOT HIS MOJO BACK; BEHIND BUSH'S GREAT WEEK
The NY Post ^ | 6/15/06 | Clark S. Judge

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; code7777; doi; doimakeyouhorny; mediabias; mojo; term2; threadjack
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To: 7thson

poker player or a great chess player?

My Answer: Poker - and here's why.

- Chess is one-on-one - poker is one-on-many
- Chess requires you to play 1 game (hand) - poker you can fold now - take a loss - and win later
- Poker occasionally allows you to bluff - in chess, bluffs are clearly visible

Get my drift?


41 posted on 06/15/2006 5:09:14 AM PDT by Jake The Goose
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To: RoadTest

Try a little limberger with that whine.


42 posted on 06/15/2006 5:12:10 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
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To: raybbr; Miss Marple; ohioWfan

***Sometimes I think they bow in prayer to the east (the White House) instead of to the Cross.***

If YOU think THAT, YOU're the one with the problem. But then, Bush Derangement Syndrome is just as real on the Right Wing as it is on the Left Wing...the TRUTH of which YOU're a prime example.


43 posted on 06/15/2006 5:13:40 AM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: AmericaUnited; Jmouse007
I'm really getting sick and tired of all the petty little snivelers who do nothing more than whine and complain.

People who expect perfection will always be disappointed.

People who expect any given candidate to be exactly on the same page as they are on every issue will always be disappointed.

I, for one, am delighted about the events of the past week.

44 posted on 06/15/2006 5:15:20 AM PDT by Allegra (Mookie Sadr's Next!)
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To: Jake The Goose
I'll go with that. When you mentioned bluffs, I thought that a good bluffer is one, when at times is called, actually does have the cards. Then I thought of GWB - I guess everyone thought he was bluffing concerning Iraq and it bit them in the arse. Now, with Iran, he is saying pretty much the same thing. We're going the diplomatic route but all options are on the table. Libya got the message after Iraq and folded their hand. Iran is running around hoping to draw into a straight flush, not realizing GWB holds the aces - our military, specifically our navy.

Like I said, good analogy and great talking to you.

45 posted on 06/15/2006 5:15:48 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Jmouse007
"As someone who's entire family has supported and voted for him twice..."


I have come to view quailfiers such as the above in the same category as, "Some of my best friends are..."

If you have to quailfy your statement, chances are you are not telling the truth.

46 posted on 06/15/2006 5:17:00 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: 7thson

Back at you - good thoughts.


47 posted on 06/15/2006 5:17:10 AM PDT by Jake The Goose
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To: NJRighty
Nothing like having a backbone, working hard, being honest, and staying on track...When the rest of his critics would of quit, President Bush never gave up, and he never gave in. Guess President Bush meant it, when he said,
"We Will Not Tire or Rest Until the War on Terror is Won"

48 posted on 06/15/2006 5:18:44 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Jmouse007

GO W GO


49 posted on 06/15/2006 5:19:01 AM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: Allegra
after so very many dark days here

I agree. However, to be fair....there's been many, many bright days as well. It's just that one has to dig long & deep to hear because the MSM won't tell you.

50 posted on 06/15/2006 5:23:31 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: 7thson

***Iran is running around hoping to draw into a straight flush, not realizing GWB holds the aces - our military, specifically our Navy.***

The Iranian Dude is gonna get help from Castro and Chavez and the PRK...yep, they're gonna save him.

Snicker.


51 posted on 06/15/2006 5:26:35 AM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: Dog

Dog! Just got back from picking up the grandkids! In his pocket!! Dare I say it will have all sorts of information we can use! Like identities of people unknown to us who helped him, maybe OBL's contact information? Wowser!


52 posted on 06/15/2006 5:29:37 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Tribune7
He's good a rope-a-dope too

I think the recent release of the Sadaam papers is the final act of the "Bush Lied" super-rope-a-dope.

53 posted on 06/15/2006 5:33:32 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: NJRighty
the president's brilliantly conceived and executed trip to Baghdad

I don't get this. I agree that things are looking up for the president, but I don't get the fascination with this trip. In my view, the nature of the trip underlined not so much how well things are going in Iraq, but how dangerous things still are. If things were going great, he wouldn't need to fly in secretly with his staff in flak jackets. It was a good trip, but he's been to Iraq before. I don't see the Iraq trip as a piece of this puzzle.

To me, just my stupid opinion, the reason the president's fortunes are looking up are firstly that arch terrorist Zarqawi is dead. Americans want vengeance done, and Zarq was a nice scalp on the old lodgepole. Second, the immigration debate is pretty much played out. The anti-bush-immigration-plan folks are all cried out. You know how a kid cries and cries and eventually simply runs out of steam and takes a nap? That's the anti-bush-immigration-plan crowd, in my view. Third, the democrats continue to be complete barking moonbats. they are so far divorced from reality that by default bush will do better.

So that's my take. The Iraq trip was fine, but I really don't see it as a huge deal. Maybe it's just me.

54 posted on 06/15/2006 5:33:50 AM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
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To: AmericaUnited
America United, Thanks !

Taildragger

55 posted on 06/15/2006 5:36:24 AM PDT by taildragger (They call themselves Liberal Democrats, I call them Collaborators.)
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To: LS

Lately I've been envisioning the 2008 election cycle. I don't think it's too optimistic to imagine that by the spring of 08, in the height of the election season, that our troop levels will be drawing down significantly in Iraq. Imagine tickertape victory parades in major American cities as victories American liberators return home. Imagine this all happens while in Iraq, a democratically elected gubmint is up and running, basic utilties are functioning, we have an Arab ally in the ME. And then imagine what on earth the completely hapless DEMs are going to run on.


56 posted on 06/15/2006 5:36:28 AM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
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To: AmericaUnited
I'm really getting sick and tired of all the petty little snivelers who do nothing more than whine and complain.

Just out of curiosity, why is someone who raises real concerns that reflect the mood of the majority of our fellow citizens, labeled as a whiner and complainer?

57 posted on 06/15/2006 5:36:44 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: Puppage
However, to be fair....there's been many, many bright days as well. It's just that one has to dig long & deep to hear because the MSM won't tell you.

Yes, there have been plenty of bright days. But I have also been here for the darkest days such as April and November of '04 and other awful events. That's why this past week has been particularly sweet.

I have tirelessly refuted the media here on FR for two and a half years, reporting the positive news out of Iraq and slicing through the media's blatant distortions. I have come under fire from negative, troll-like FReepers for doing so.

I have hung in here well over the year I committed to because I knew from what I was seeing that these days we are experiencing now were coming.

I haven't had to dig deep at all to see through the media's B.S.

All I've ever had to do was look around me.

58 posted on 06/15/2006 5:37:06 AM PDT by Allegra (Mookie Sadr's Next!)
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To: AmericaUnited
Thank goodness you have said something. I get sick and tired of people looking only a few steps ahead, when the President is playing long-term.

Every single time we go into the summer, we have had these "Bush is failing, nothing's getting done" reports from the press, echoed here by the chronic Bush criics.

Then right before the August vacation we get a flurry of activity, Congress passes a bunch of stuff, and everyone is standing around with puzzled looks of "how did that happen" written on their faces.

All we are hearing about is the failure of the immigration bill, etc. Watch and see what happens in the next month. Lots of people will be surprised.

59 posted on 06/15/2006 5:38:26 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Huck

how many times did fdr or truman visit germany and japan??


60 posted on 06/15/2006 5:38:35 AM PDT by lonster
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