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Bush Stands Alone
Weekly Standard ^ | 1-13-07 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 01/13/2007 7:13:12 AM PST by jackv

There's a simple reason the Washington establishment, Democrats, and the press hate President Bush's new strategy in Iraq: He spurned their advice. He ordered a troop increase, not the first phase of a withdrawal. He didn't echo Democrats like Senator Joe Biden and suggest the war in Iraq is lost. The thrust of his nationally televised speech last week was that we can still win. He mostly rejected the findings of the Iraq Study Group. And he refused--in fact, he's emphatically opposed--to engage Iran and Syria in talks. Nor did he go along with calls to abandon democracy as the fundamental goal of his foreign policy in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; new; wot
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I don't care what some "conservatives" say. I love this man. I thank God he is our president.
1 posted on 01/13/2007 7:13:14 AM PST by jackv
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To: jackv

There's a lot of Abe Lincoln in Bush.


2 posted on 01/13/2007 7:16:49 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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"There's a lot of Abe Lincoln in Bush."

There's a lot of Copperhead in the Democrats.


3 posted on 01/13/2007 7:19:35 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: jackv

Let there be no mistake. If this war is lost it is the media and Democrats who are to blame.


4 posted on 01/13/2007 7:19:37 AM PST by kjo
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To: bnelson44

Yes, there really is!


5 posted on 01/13/2007 7:19:43 AM PST by jackv (just shakin' my head)
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To: jackv
I love this man. I thank God he is our president.

Ditto that sentiment.


6 posted on 01/13/2007 7:20:28 AM PST by andyandval
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To: bnelson44

Abe Lincoln also knew that if the enslaved African population of the South didn't rise to take part in democracy, any Civil War would be in vain. Muslims and theocracy are as inseparable as Baptists and Water, as Catholics and the Eucharist, and as Pentecostals and speaking in tongues. Remove the ideology of jihadist salvation, and democracy might have a chance in the Mid East. Otherwise, Baby, we're going to loose even MORE lives. George Bush was elected to be President of the UNITED STATES, not the Middle East.


7 posted on 01/13/2007 7:21:02 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: jackv

President Bush stands his ground no matter what the critics say. There are some Republicans who have much to learn from George W. Bush.


8 posted on 01/13/2007 7:21:05 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: jackv

I stand with our President....he is not alone


9 posted on 01/13/2007 7:21:45 AM PST by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: jackv
I'm really tired of these faux headlines about President Bush standing alone, he has 33-37% support for his Iraq policy and if he had no support he wouldn't had been reelected and the Republicans would be far worse in the congress so it's just not true.
10 posted on 01/13/2007 7:23:08 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: jackv

"Bush stands alone"

If he keeps leading like he did this week - not for long.


11 posted on 01/13/2007 7:24:53 AM PST by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: rovenstinez; All

If we leave now, we are going to have to back there and lose more lives... Better to have those people blow themselves up over there than here....


12 posted on 01/13/2007 7:25:05 AM PST by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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To: jackv
One should never negotiate from a position of desperation. You should always negotiate from a position of strength, letting your opponent know that failure to take necessary action, you will simply disappear.

The liberals want the US to go to the Iranians and beg them to stop attacking and killing our forces until they can pack up with their tails firmly tucked into their behinds as they run from Iraq, looking like the keystone cops.

Yes, sir, that will show the terrorist (Iranians) not to mess with the United States again!
13 posted on 01/13/2007 7:26:22 AM PST by paratrooper82 (82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky" Going back to Iraq soon)
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To: jackv

I don't care what some "conservatives" say. I love this man. I thank God he is our president.

I agree ,he is a real leader like Washington and Lincoln, they were alone too.


14 posted on 01/13/2007 7:26:40 AM PST by Big Horn (Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is 100% fatal . Author unknown)
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To: rovenstinez

re : theocracy/Moslems, we could settle for another Turkey.


15 posted on 01/13/2007 7:28:13 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: mystery-ak
I stand with our President....he is not alone

Mega dittos!

16 posted on 01/13/2007 7:28:34 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: rovenstinez
Abe Lincoln also knew that if the enslaved African population of the South didn't rise to take part in democracy, any Civil War would be in vain

Well, they didn't at the time. Some actually fought for the South. In fact, they were pretty much suppressed until the 1960s.

17 posted on 01/13/2007 7:28:44 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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To: rovenstinez

>>>Abe Lincoln also knew that if the enslaved African population of the South didn't rise to take part in democracy, any Civil War would be in vain. Muslims and theocracy are as inseparable as Baptists and Water, as Catholics and the Eucharist, and as Pentecostals and speaking in tongues. Remove the ideology of jihadist salvation, and democracy might have a chance in the Mid East. Otherwise, Baby, we're going to loose even MORE lives. George Bush was elected to be President of the UNITED STATES, not the Middle East.<<<<

Empasis bump.


President Bush, State of the Union address excerpt: America will help the oppressed people "secure their country, rebuild their society and educate all their children-boys and girls."....otherwise, the terrorist will come back and recruit.


18 posted on 01/13/2007 7:28:55 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Might be a good time for everyone to tell him he is not alone.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/


19 posted on 01/13/2007 7:30:35 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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To: jackv

There is nothing that scares the Democrasts more than George Bush's success in Iraq.


20 posted on 01/13/2007 7:31:24 AM PST by oyez (Why is it that egalitarians act like royalty?)
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