The Speech the President Should Give

NY Times ^ | 6/28/05 | Edhallick

[EdHallick]

The Speech the President Should Give By JOHN F. KERRY

Boston

TONIGHT President Bush will discuss the situation in Iraq. It's long past time to get it right in Iraq. The Bush administration is courting disaster with its current course - a course with no realistic strategy for reducing the risks to our soldiers and increasing the odds for success.

The reality is that the Bush administration's choices have made Iraq into what it wasn't before the war - a breeding ground for jihadists. Today there are 16,000 to 20,000 jihadists and the number is growing. The administration has put itself - and, tragically, our troops, who pay the price every day - in a box of its own making. Getting out of this box won't be easy, but we owe it to our soldiers to make our best effort.

Our mission in Iraq is harder because the administration ignored the advice of others, went in largely alone, underestimated the likelihood and power of the insurgency, sent in too few troops to secure the country, destroyed the Iraqi army through de-Baathification, failed to secure ammunition dumps, refused to recognize the urgency of training Iraqi security forces and did no postwar planning. A little humility would go a long way - coupled with a strategy to succeed.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

LOL! I heard someone say one time:

Bush walks across the water and the ACLU sues him for contaminating the water.

[Bommer]

Bush could come up with the cure for cancer, and the headlines the next day in the New York Slimes would be: BUSH MURDERING INNOCENT TUMORS!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

HEheheheh!

"Bush could come up with the cure for cancer, and the headlines the next day in the New York Slimes would be..."

BUSH DESTROYS THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY. [MASS LAYOFFS EXPECTED.]