Posted on 05/13/2008 3:12:05 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Yeah Bush, it's "real" just like the flawed, wrong Iraqi intellegence.
I'm sorry to say, sometimes Bush really can be completely wonky!
Of course he’s right about Iraq, but our enemies are emboldened by our failure to now put real pressure on Iran and Syria.
He won the war, and has lost it in public opinion. A true shame.
I didn’t see the quote where he says his successor will be a Democrat. Or maybe he means whether his successor is Hillary, Obama or McCain, he/she will be a Democrat.
What can you say?
“Consensus” is now a much more important “virtue” than “principle”. The trade-off Bush seems to be looking for here is, if you stop calling my war unneccesary, I will buy into the global warming/CO2 greenhouse gas baloney, and to show my good faith, I will accept the global warming even before you drop resistance to the Iraqi involvement.
We are left with only the worst of two worlds.
I agree.
QUIT TALKING TO YOUR ENEMIES!
He has given up golf? Because of a war? If they nuked Augusta I’d dig through the radioactive silt to play Amen corner!
You’re not the one who sent them to war.
I wish we could have such a leader in the Oval all the time.
True, but a war which he still should be proud of and continue to hold his head high over. The failure of this war is in the minds of the American and world public, those who can’t see the long range benefits of what the soldiers have sacrificed for. So yes, I think he should continue to play golf, to hold his head high, and to not given in to those who belittle the lives of those who have earned history’s respect.
To begin with, American columns should have cut through Baghdad three days after they began to roll, and exited three weeks later, leaving Saddam dead and the pliant Iraqi strongman who betrayed him—candidates would not have been hard to find—to keep the country harmless to the West or suffer the same quick take-down. Rather than being broken on the wheel of irreconcilable Muslim factions, the supple and intact American power would have shattered the Arabs' elation following September 11th, and by threatening their rule been able to discipline the various police states of the region into eliminating their terrorists. Far more efficient that way, without six and more murderous and unavailing years in which neither a single democracy has appeared, nor will one. (The surge is merely coincident with a change in Sunni strategy. Instead of watching the U.S. and Iran arm the Shia for a major sectarian war that our small force in Iraq cannot prevent, the Sunni choose to avail themselves of American arms while simultaneously removing the lunatic jihadists nipping at their heels.)
It would be much harder to get a consensus on whether the cause is man-made or natural.
Seems that part of that blame belongs to a public that willingly accepts the "Bush Lied" dogma just because they are having a hissy fit over the 2000 elections, you know, the one Bush stole.
So, how really secure are we with our intelligence service being so flawed. But then again, what else is to be expected from government employees, who like the rest of us have been brainwashed into believing that patriotism is wrong.
Therefore, the intelligence community, like other government agencies, spend each day as "just another day at the office" and put out "government quality" results.........win some, lose some as long as the paychecks keep coming.
The only problem with that argument is no knew where Saddam was at the time. He was not captured until December 2003, 8 months later. A tyrant like that carries a fear of his return. Until he was caught or killed no government in Iraq would have succeeded.
It would be much harder to get a consensus on whether the cause is man-made or natural.
The point is it doesn't matter whether or not it's real, man-made or natural. Dumbass, arrogant, prick politicians think they can "control" it as long as you give them enough tax dollars!
“Consensus” is now a much more important “virtue” than “principle”. The trade-off Bush seems to be looking for here is, if you stop calling my war unneccesary, I will buy into the global warming/CO2 greenhouse gas baloney, and to show my good faith, I will accept the global warming even before you drop resistance to the Iraqi involvement.
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Maggie Thatcher, one of the world’s last real strong leaders, said it right -— “CONSENSUS REPRESENTS THE LACK OF LEADERSHIP”....and it sure as hell applies to this administration.
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