Bush adding 21,500 troops to Iraq force - LIVE thread- speech 9pm EST

Yahoo/AP ^ | 1-10-07 | TerenceHunt

[NormsRevenge]

Hmmmm?

Time to get out of Dodge for Muqqty?

[proud American in Canada]

He's dead bang serious and resolute. Losing is NOT an option.

He made that VERY clear to public. Excellent!

[maica]

President Bush just said to destroy any support for terrorists coming Iran and Syria. Excellent and Finally.


^^^^^

I wonder how many 'commentators' will even mention this vital sentence in their post-speech dissection?

[mystery-ak]

Yes, out of the ballpark

[popdonnelly]

"Nothing about the Clinton threat to national archives secure documents yet... hmmmm"

You'd have to cut off the Clintonista's hands. Wonder how many Top Secret documents Hillary has from the Clinton Administration.

[onyx]

Woo-Hoo for you, Peach. WTG, girlfriend!

[RushCrush]

Why are we the only country who really cares? We've what sunk 200 billion already? How much more?

And how much exactly did the 9-11 attacks cost in comparison?

[AliVeritas]

AP, Reuters.

[marajade]

Yeah I understand that. But why doesn't Iraq want them in Iraq?

[Peach]

A young democracy is fighting for its life. The terrorists are without conscience. Even if our new strategy works exactly as planned, we must expect more casualties.

Success won't look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on a battleship.

[section9]

I totally agree with you on the Bush/Lincoln analogy.

Lincoln, like Bush, trusted Generals who were too willing not to use the proper amount of force. It is telling that both Abizaid and Casey were shown the door, as well as Rumsfeld.

I have to take some exception about Nixon. Nixon threw down the Linebacker campaigns when the North Vietnamese got squirrely, and his Chinese gambit threw Soviet diplomacy out the door in 1971.

Nixon was undone by his own demons, sad to say. I always had a sneaking admiration for the sumbi*ch.

Bush knows what Patton knew: "Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time! I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost, and laughed!"

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Fudd Fan]

You are the best, Peach. Thanks as always for your running commentary.

[proud American in Canada]

"Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved...There will be no celebratory ceremonies..."

[easonc52]

I don't know if this new strategy will work, but I pray it does, even though my mind says it won't.

Not because our troops can't do it but because WHAT HAS TO BE DONE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED!!

Let the troops do their job (under orders), and not be worrying about prosecution by anyone for doing so...

[cgk]

Exactly.

[A Citizen Reporter]

And what was she wearing? It looked like a red straight-jacket.

[Fudd Fan]

The Queen Bees will be peeved.

GOOD.

[armymarinemom]

Good speech but it sounds like he is covering for even more trouble from Iran by putting the Patriot missile defense back in. I love a preemptive slap.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Dick Morris can stick it. He said this speech won't do a thing for Bush.

[NonValueAdded]

"We carefully considered these proposals" and concluded the proposers were nucking futz.