BUSH CANDOR: DECISIONS HAVE MADE IRAQ MORE UNSTABLE

Drudge Report ^ | January 13, 2007 | Matt Drudge

[Doohickey]

How would an apology make you "feeeeel"?

[AliVeritas]

If there were republicans on the hill with spine, the CinC wouldn't have to piddle around trying to explain every move... now would he. If I knew some protest voters were going to slam the party this bad... they might as well had axed all of them. Yikes! I said that?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

We've spent 70 years of the last 100 operating this government in a deficit.

In that period of time, it has managed to survive.

Isn't that a miracle as well as amazing? Maybe the deficit truly isn't as critical as you try to make it sound. 99% of economists agree. You don't agree because you have no clue about what it is you talk about.

[Peach]

When Tony had his radio show, we used to discuss issues on the open forum and in freepmail. I know he was disappointed in the president's decision not to fight back against the left's lies about various matters and I'd hoped he could convince the president to start doing so. Apparently he's been unsuccessful. So while I think Tony is a fabulous spokesman, the best I've ever seen in that job, he's been unable to change how the administration handles its critics.

[FreeReign]

People assume that they know what would have happened if different decisions had been made. But no one knows what would have happened if President Bush had made different decisions. The situation could be far worse now if the course advocated by some had been followed. They don't know, they just assume that they know.

Things ain't so bad now.

As Shiite/Persian Iraq tries to gain influence in Iran, we use that to our advantage.

We gain support among the Sunni Arab states to move against Iran. As this happens we gain support with Arab Iraqi Shiites of Najif against their rivals the Iranian Ahiites of Qom.

[Peach]

Oh, they'll Monday morning quarterback just like they're doing here. LOL

[jrooney]

Well spoken. Fight them there, defeat them there and remove their safe harbors so they do not have places to train, plan and attack from. GW is doing that and those of us that support him need to stand shoulder to shoulder not to let the cut and run crowd win because if we do withdraw, we all will lose.

[RatsDawg]

we were thinking the same thing....

[AliVeritas]

Um... do you have the stats on how many deaths were in the US and how many were from other medical conditions?

I suggest you look it up.

[Peach]

That was more a military operation than a war, imo. We didn't control territory and depose a dictator.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Why tell the terrorists that the can find WMD in Iraq? That's bad strategery.

[AliVeritas]

Exactly... we wouldn't even be a country if it was up to some here.

[FreeReign]

Correction:As Shiite/Persian IraqIran tries to gain influence in IranIraq, we use that to our advantage.

[Dick Vomer]

Do you really think President Bush should not apologize for the 3,000 Americans who died in Iraq and the deficit spending that occurred under his pen in the past 6 years?

no he shouldn't apologize. He prevented who knows how many more attacks. The "instability" is caused by the release of the tyrannical hand of Hussein. Nazi Germany was stable... Communist Soviet Union was "stable"... democracy and the creation of republics is messy and argumentative. our own country was "unstable" during and for the next hundred years of it's creation.

God, libs are so f'ing stupid. How about getting the libs to apologize for the deficits in the welfare programs, for the destruction of the black populace in this country, for subverting our men in Vietnam.

By the way, the Congress makes up the budget. The RINO's trying to curry favor with the libs got us into more spending. They lost the election. good.

the rest of my post is unprintable due to the following request.....NO profanity, NO personal attacks, or violence in posts.

[tobyhill]

Could he have meant the insurgent's decision to attack each other?

[Kaslin]

The article does not make any sense with this one, which seems to be exactly the opposide as to what the president said

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767153/posts

[jrooney]

Ooooorrrrraaaahhhh to your pic! Awesome, just awesome.

[highball]

Could he have meant the insurgent's decision to attack each other?

I do not believe the President plays semantic games.

If he was talking about others, he would have clearly said so.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Thank you for saying that. I too am sick of reading and hearing "apologize! apologize!" from those pompous asses of touchie feelie air head crowd.

There are times, places and reasons for apologizing in a civil society, but throwing apologies around like ticker tape at a parade, reduces it to a putrid meaningless ritual.

[Mr. Mojo]

I see, so the administration's abject failure to counter 'Rat allegations that Saddam's WMDs never existed and that Al Qaeda weren't present in Iraq before we invaded can all be chalked up to brilliant "strategery," eh? Keep drinking that Kool-Aid.