Posted on 12/08/2006 4:02:15 PM PST by IntelliQuark
Top Democrats in Congress left a White House meeting with President Bush on Friday frustrated over what they perceived as his reluctance to embrace major recommendations from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.
"I just didn't feel there today, the president in his words or his demeanor, that he is going to do anything right away to change things drastically," Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid, D-Nev., said following the Oval Office meeting. "He is tepid in what he talks about doing. Someone has to get the message to this man that there have to be significant changes."
Bush has been cool to some of the report's main recommendations. He's said he won't deal with Iran until it verifiably suspends its nuclear enrichment program and won't sit down with Syria until it stays out of Lebanon's political affairs and prevents the flow of weapons and cash to insurgents in Iraq.
And Bush has stressed many times that U.S. troops will stay in Iraq until they successfully complete their mission.
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How 'bout it Dingy Harry...lets cut and run and fight this war on terror in the Rockford Mall. Its a much cleaner place and easier to reach. You idiot!
Maybe this is a hopeful sign that Bush will finally get rid of the stupid "New Tone" and start being the stubborn hard-ass again we all love & cherish.
But, as the poster wrote it, and as the left uses it, it indicates stagnation and lack of progress.
IMO, it's become a catchphrase for the anti-Bush forces, left and right, and no longer means what it was intended to mean when it was first stated.
The ISG was SOCIALISM at its best....
exactly, the democrats are in charge now, what are THEY going to do about iraq
Well .. the opposite of victory is defeat
They need to stop playing games and call it what it is DEFEAT
Well the democrats have their cover now
They don't need a plan
They only have to shout implement the 911 commission report
Er I mean IG study
"He is tepid in what he talks about doing."
Being tepid about ISG tepidity is no vice, Harry.
Apparently Mr. Bush never watched F Troop. We need to retreat our way to victory!
On the other hand, the FR bunch who use the words 'stay the course' against President Bush mostly want to blow the entire country of Iraq to kingdom come, and nothing short will satisfy them......
A GOP Senator scuttled Bolton's UN appointment
A GOP congressman came up with the ISG idea
Good thing the GOP had congress
Well said.
1) W will ignore key parts of the ISG
2) which will anger Reid and Dems
3) the group members will be interviewed about the pig-head Bush
4) details will emerge from some committee members of the flawed process (although I believe they're sworn to silence, iirc)
It will become evident that several "planks" were included simply to placate one committee member or another
It will become crystal clear why the ISG report is such a worthless mish-mash of crap.
I wish the President would take this further. I wish he would have told the study group he ain't talking to Iran one on one and to forget it as that recommendation is DOA. What the heck does the President and the Republicans have to lose now I ask? What?
Well, that would certainly make Jim ("F#$@ the Jews!") Baker happy...
"I REALLY HOPE GWBUSH SAYS "SURRENDER IS NOT AN OPTION." in his upcomming speech. If he says that word for word, it turns the cut and run democrats into surrender monkeys."
I hope so too! Also hope he says he will give more consideration to what he hears from the troops on the ground than what he hears from those who have not been to Iraq to even see our accoumplishments! I MOSTLY wish that he would announce that Israel and the US troops are already bombing Iran! Just wishing!
Dingy Harry wants the money we spend on the war in Iraq so he and his liberal friends in Washington DC can use it for entitlement spending to buy more votes. If Sen. Reid were in charge of our military the only funds saved from the War on Terror would be the transportation cost of sending our brave soldiers and equipment to Iraq. He would save us that funding because the fighting will end up right here in our homeland.
It must be frustrating for the democrats and media not to be the president of the United States. Its still an awful reality check for them.
The Iraq Study Group was not elected by the people to conduct foreign policy and defend the United States of America. Harry Reid was elected to represent Nevada and not to guide the foreign policy of the United States. The main stream media needs to be reminded that George W Bush is the president and that he has the authority of the executive branch of government vested to him by the constitution.
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