Posted on 07/16/2007 7:31:40 PM PDT by tobyhill
WASHINGTON — President Bush shocked Capitol Hill staffers and Republican leaders Monday when he crashed a meeting at the White House to deliver a blunt message that he wasn't backing down on Iraq and Republicans need to understand that.
"It was stunning," said one GOP aide who attended the meeting. "We couldn't believe he came in."
"We kept looking at each other, amazed he came in," said another Republican aide.
Bush was described as folksy, adamant and mildly profane as he interrupted the meeting between senior White House communications staffers Tony Snow and Ed Gillespie and GOP leaders. His message: the policy on Iraq isn't changing. He is not backing down and no one on Capitol Hill should be confused into thinking he is letting up.
The interruption precedes what is expected to be an all-nighter in the Senate on Tuesday, ordered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a way to protest GOP blocking tactics on moves to compel U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid said Iraq is the most important issue facing the United States and attempts to block legislation calling for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq will be met with a hardball response.
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Build your own damn wall or find something else to whine about
OS, Take your wall to another thread please this one is about Iraq!
You go George tell them!
Thank you very much!
Ditto!
Good grief.
So stuff it!
I agree 100%. I think many posters have been driven away by the anti-immigration nutcases and spammers who hit every single thread, regardless of topic, with their garbage. It makes it almost impossible to discuss any topic rationally and has made the intellectual quality and importance of FR decline precipitously. I'm really sorry the mods didn't get a grip on it early on.
The thread hijacking is getting ridiculous.
Bump!
LOL, yep, obviously the boogyman Bush and his Mexicans are much easier to battle than the OBL/DNC/MSM axis of evil, and more fun too!
[Now build the damned wall!]
(spiritual like voice to Bush):
“If you build it, they won’t come”
It should no longer be red state, blue state.
It should be red state, yellow state.
I’m afraid his can of whoopass has reached and gone beyond its best-before date. And it did that while he was doing his amnesty number. Sorry, sir - no good any more.
Well, tobyhill, the only way that horse is dead is because Americans, and FReepers chief among them, rose up in extreme anger against it. And, like any dead horse, it can be replaced in an instant with another just the same. This has got to be kept front and center for a long time, your views notwithstanding.
If the President got on the soapbox and supported the war the way you just described, his approval ratings would skyrocket.
Not that the ratings mean much, just that myself and millions others would get behind him if he did.
It can be and should be front and center but not at the expense of every thread that gets posted.
Good for him!
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