Posted on 11/29/2006 9:48:42 AM PST by jamese777
In N.H., says Bush must admit that to regain trust
BEDFORD, N.H. -- Former House speaker Newt Gingrich told a New Hampshire audience yesterday that unless the Bush administration admits that the war in Iraq is a "failure," it will never develop a strategy to leave the country successfully.
Gingrich, who has been laying the groundwork for a presidential run, said the Bush administration needs to plan a "third stage" in Iraq, following the military takeover stage and the recent democracy-building stage. But he says a third stage can come about only if officials admit they must change course.
"If the military, White House, and State Department continue to avoid the word 'failure,' how can you bring about a third stage?" Gingrich said.
Gingrich was in New Hampshire for three campaign-style events Monday night and yesterday. While the former speaker has expressed interest in a presidential run, he said yesterday that he is more interested in injecting ideas in to the 2008 campaign than in putting his name on the ballot. He said he will not seriously entertain a presidential campaign until September.
Gingrich, who served on a key Pentagon board that advised Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in the runup to the Iraq war, was eager to distance himself from the Bush administration's handling of the war.
He said a show of contrition by the White House would help the president regain the trust of the American people and avoid a quick pullout, which would be disastrous.
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The total number of murders in the US for 2004 was 16,137. Time to pull back to Okinawa.
You mean the attempt at nation building or in other words trying to force our way of life on the Iraqi people is what's failing and will continue to do so in my opinion.
Quite the contrary it started with Newt's alleged hysterics.
Then some of us began to try and settle down his fellow hysterics.
Stop making sense. Have you missed all of the cheerleader posts that castigate and deride such an opinion? Nation building under a GOP administration is GOOD! Hard to believe that you did not get the memo....
What I find really surprising is that no ones been called a cut and runner or a traitor on this thread yet for holding that opinion.
See #122
Fortunately our current political leadership wasn't around for WWII either.
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