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Bush Pours Cold Water on Iraq War Talk
Reuters via Yahoo! ^
| Wed Aug 21, 5:05 PM ET
| By Mark Egan
Posted on 08/21/2002 2:24:52 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
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I did a FR search and did not see that this paricular article had been posted yet.
To: Momaw Nadon
Well I just don't know what to say.
2
posted on
08/21/2002 2:27:39 PM PDT
by
johnb838
To: Momaw Nadon
"Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter..... to me."
- F. Mercury, 1973
To: Momaw Nadon
I don't see Bush saying he won't go after Saddam. Reuters wishful thinking.
4
posted on
08/21/2002 2:29:58 PM PDT
by
Becwin
To: Momaw Nadon
Guess everyone expects President to give the time and date of the attack on Iraq to take out Sadaam. If anyone thinks that President Bush is going to back down because Brent Snowcroft and the guy from Germany along with other naysayers say he should, better think again!
If Brent Snowcroft's expertise was wanted by this Administration, he would be asked -- nope he has to go public so someone will pay attention to him. It is obvious he is not in the know.
This is President George W. Bush's not President George H.W. Bush's Administration. BTW, I don't remember Snowcroft much from the Gulf War -- seems to me that Cheney was the one outfront on the Gulf War!
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posted on
08/21/2002 2:30:34 PM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
To: Momaw Nadon
Well, W is not gonna say "The bombing starts in five minutes..."Oh, Saddam'll know his ticket is about to get punched, but it'll happen when everyone is good and damn well ready. We all (including me) need to be patient.
There's plenty of good football coming up on the tube for the next few weeks. That'll hold ya until you can go home to watch the war on TV...
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posted on
08/21/2002 2:30:55 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: Momaw Nadon
I once had a Brent Scowcroft...but it got better.
To: Momaw Nadon
I did a FR search and did not see that this paricular article had been posted yet.Bush: Iraq Change in World Interest. This article is about as close as you can get. Some of the words are different though and the title is different.
To: Momaw Nadon
I'm a patient man," he said. "We will look at all options and we will consider all technologies available to us, and diplomacy and intelligence. But one thing is for certain ... this administration agrees that Saddam Hussein is a threat." There is an old saying .. All good things come to those who wait
When the time is right and everything is in place .. then he'll give the order
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posted on
08/21/2002 2:35:50 PM PDT
by
Mo1
To: johnb838
In the LA Times this morning, there was a teeny, tiny little item buried deep inside the paper that said an elite reserve unit was being called up for a secret deployment. Destination, unknown. Mission, unknown.
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posted on
08/21/2002 2:36:44 PM PDT
by
Deb
To: Momaw Nadon
This headline appears to be more smoke and spin than anything else; if I had written the byline based on what Bush actually said in the article, I would have written "Bush declares Saddam a threat; regime change in 'interest of the world'"
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Mama, I just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.
Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters.
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, ev'rybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Mama, ooh, I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
I see a little silhouette of a man,
Scare a moose, Scare a moose, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me.
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo. Galileo. Figaro. Magnifico.
I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go.
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
(Let me go.) We'll not let you go.
(Let me go.) We'll not let you go. (Let me go.) Ah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
(Oh mama mia, mama mia.) Mama mia, let me go.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye.
So you think you can love me and leave me to die.
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.
Nothing really matters, anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.
Any way the wind blows...
To: johnb838
Well I just don't know what to say. How 'bout, Psych!
The "consultation with Congress" clarification is proper, constitutionally correct, and good politics, too.
The "consultation with our allies" part is boilerplate, and probably good diplomacy. It won't make any difference if we decide something needs to be done.
The apparent backing-off from war talk is probably two things: first, it works to increase Iraqi confusion concerning our ultimate aims. Second, it impugns the NYT's "sources" for the "secret plans" they've been publishing. (I also suspect that the "immanent war" talk is mostly a case of media -- and DNC -- wishful thinking.)
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posted on
08/21/2002 2:39:22 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: areafiftyone
Bush: Iraq Change in World Interest. This article is about as close as you can get. Some of the words are different though and the title is different. That's what this article's headline should have been; unfortunately the reporter (or his editor) let his own political agenda get in the way.
To: Mo1
Wait for the next new moon.
To: areafiftyone
The author is also different.
To: Momaw Nadon
A more accurate title would have been
"Bush Pours Cold Water on Talk of Imminent War with Iraq",
but this is Reuters, so accuracy is not a priority.
(Hmmm, could that be their new byline? LOL)
To: Momaw Nadon
What Bush said today he has repeatedly said before....the press jumped the gun as usual and had us going to war any day now.
Maybe they ought to start paying attention to what Bush actually says instead of what they *think* he is saying.
We are not ready yet....patience.
To: r9etb
I'm not convinced that this is 'an apparent backing off from war', which has the premise that we were on a path toward attacking soon. I continue to bet that it will be after the election before any major attack, for a variety of reasons. A few political, but primary logistical and strategical. Bush has always been on a course to first get our ducks in a row, and some housecleaning was clearly needed. Nothing has changed, other than the media starting to now figure that their jumping to conclusions(war anyday now) may once again have been in error.
To: SpringheelJack
Reading the conservative columnists on Townhall.com today, I couldn't help noticing the frustrated tone of many including Pat Buchanan and Michael Kelly.
I could go there too but G-Dub has not let me down yet and I'm going to keep the faith.
One thing I've learned from here... he has to do this buildup quite differently from Poppy. Poppy wanted to be as public as possible to try to get Sodom to back down. W is having to do it on the Q-T, and enough is leaking out to show that there is a lot going on behind the scenes.
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posted on
08/21/2002 2:44:57 PM PDT
by
johnb838
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