BUSH CANDOR: DECISIONS HAVE MADE IRAQ MORE UNSTABLE

Drudge Report ^ | January 13, 2007 | Matt Drudge

[The_Eaglet]

All opinions Coming from your fragmented group of cynical defeatist/protectionist fanatics, carries a credibility rating of minus 8. (We'll give you 2 positive points for predictability.)

How does my concern for the killing of Americans and government waste put me in a "fragmented group of cynical defeatist/protectionist fanatics" ?

[Polybius]

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?

Do you think that FDR should apologize for the 418,500 Americans that died in World War Two and the deficit spending that occurred under his pen?

If the Iraq War had never happened and if you were Commander-in-Chief in four years and Saddam then had nuclear weapons to control 70% of the world's know oil reserves, how would you deal with that?

Would you deal with it at all?

What would be the cost if you didn't deal with it?

What would be the cost if you did?

If the Allied Powers had attacked Nazi Germany as soon as Hitler renounced the Versailles Treaty in 1936, people like you would be asking, "Is Roosevelt going to apologize for the 3,000 Americans who died in Germany in 1936?"

[Doohickey]

...although I think Bush has some responsibility for the lax immigration enforcement which gave the suicide bombers a launching point from American soil...

I'm as willing to kick the President on his immigration stance as most (on the appropriate threads), but you do realize the he was in office for less than nine months before the attack? That most of the hijackers were in the country before the got elected? That thanks to Al Gore and the Democratic Party, President Bush did not get the opportunity to perform a proper transition from the previous administration? You do realize these things, right?

[RobbyS]

I imagine we will eventually find that Bush regreats taking Powell's advise to go to the UN with a thin case about WMN, rather than taking the bull by the horns and saying our purpose was to remove Sadaam.

[jazusamo]

Didn't the first Gulf War have fewer casualties?

Yes it did, on our side anyway. Remember though that the invasion itself lasted 100 hours.

[The_Eaglet]

It would increase my respect for the primary occupant of the White House.

[AliVeritas]

We know better. Watch what comes out when those troops head up by the Syrian border. Remember how hot it got when they were there before? It's not only because the that's one of the terror routes and Syria's harboring them.

[vigilante2]

I found the WMD's in Iraq

Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq, Santorum Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653337/posts

INTELLIGENCE: Why Iraq WMD Finds Were Kept Secret
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654974/posts

[jazusamo]

ROTFL! Right on.

[Doohickey]

Really? I expect my leaders to admit to mistakes, but I don't expect them to apologize. Apologies are not solutions. I guess the military taught me that; I don't understand how anyone could think differently.

[tobyhill]

I didn't say he was playing semantics but there have been a lot of decisions that have led to the violence including Zarqawi attacking the Golden Mosque. A good reporter would have followed up that question with something like,"mistakes you have made?" and not left it subject to interpretation but then again that may have been where the reporter wanted it. President Bush already said during his speech he had made mistakes and obviously there was an increase in the recent violence to what might have been had mistakes not been made.

[AliVeritas]

You misunderstand The Eaglet... I believe he/she/it means when we are attacked do nothing, God forbid one life besides those on our soil is lost. You know... the way Carter and Clinton did. Nevermind those Americans lost all over the world in our embassies, the Cole, diplomats and other places re: terrorism. We should just stand down and wait for the UN to take care of it. s/

[GoldCountryRedneck]

....he's been unable to change how the administration handles its critics.

I've seen little flashes that they are learning...

For example, Bushs' recent comment that "To oppose everything and propose nothing is irresponsible" I'd credit to Snow and wish it had been an '06 campaign theme.

Agreed, however, that they're not learning fast enough and leave themselves too open to Leftspin opportunities like the one this thread cites.

[lawdude]

" "I thought it was discouraging... It's important that that chapter of Iraqi history be closed. [But] They could have handled it a lot better.""

Ya, like the Italians handled Mussolini.

[jrooney]

Troll, your diatribes are getting OLD!!! Did I say OLD???!!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

TSK! TSK!

[BW2221]

"Your point is taken. IMO one of the biggest mistakes Bush made was in insisting Islam is a religion of peace. Along with the US invasion force should have been 50,000 Christian missionaries. That's the way you change hearts and minds."

Instead our troops are instructed not to practice their religion openly. Can't offend the Muslims.

[TKDietz]

"....yet he is an incompetent moron as depicted by the media."

He sure makes it easy for them.

[doug from upland]

Truman's decision made Hiroshima more radioactive.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Saddam had outsourced his nuclear program to Libya. Iraqi scientists, North Korean equipment and a hole in a Libyan mountain.