BUSH SHOULD PUT UP OR SHUTUP ON IRAQ!

[BJR]

This Bush supporter is about to turn. For months we have heard all the valid reasons for ridding thEE world of Sadam Hussein, over and over and over again. Tonight, the word is that Bush will answer press questions on Iraq and, yet again, assure us all that no decision on war has been made. Great! The markets can continue to collapse, anti-war demonstrations go on, Bush's re-elect poll numbers plummet and Wart Hog Helen gets to ridicule Bush some more.

Well I've had it with Bush. The guy really isn't very smart afterall. And that guy Powell of his has actually done the impossible by making Madeleine Albright look competent in comparison. Bush discarded good advice from experts and get's snookered by Powell into going thru the UN, then watches as the French snooker Powell. And the US now has the humiliating task of begging the likes of Angola and Cameroon for approval to defend the country from horrendous attacks. In the meantime, Powell says we can't talk to North Korea as if just talking was synonymous with re-negotiating an agreement. As a result, Korea may start a war and the US foreign policy is the laughing stock of the world.

Enough is enough! Bush should fire Colin Powell, shutup and stay holed up in the white house until he is actually ready to act as tough as he talks. Come out only to announce the invasion of Iraq or its successful disarming by the UN, whichever comes first.

[Cinnamon Girl]

This Bush supporter is about to turn.

That's as far as I read.

[SunStar]

This Bush supporter is about to turn.

Turn to who? John Kerry? LOL

[Miss Marple]

Ha!

[chance33_98]

Further, the fact that Bush 41 and the Toon didn't resolve this when they should have bothers me.

According to Clintoon comments Bush made an arrangement with Saddam - Don'r use WMD and we don't overrun baghdad.

[brydic1]

As a lifelong Conservative Republican, I believe you said it exactly correct.

If I hear again, which I probably will this evening, that "it will be weeks not months" or "days, not weeks". I want to throw things. Bush never had any respect from the left and, of course, he never will, and now he is fast losing any respect with the right. He is so incompetent in "pussyfooting." Is it not insane to jam 300,000 grunts into a few sq miles in Kuwait to be vulnerable for some kind of horrendous attack. This war should have taken place months ago. In another week, the Australians, the Brits as well as the Kuwaitis will withdraw from our "coalition" and the Arab States will ask us to go home. This delay is more costly each day. Even though it will mean the end of Bush and be damaging to the Republicans in the short run, if Bush is not willing to immediately proceed in Iraq, he should bring those boys back home and let the rest of the world stop dictators. We should take care of ourselves and let the rest of the world go to h---.

[quidnunc]

This is getting serious.

Fox News just reported that the British are beginning to go wobbly.

If we don't act soon our other supporters will be starting to look for cover.

The uncertainty is harming the economy and the people are starting to act goofy from the stress.

It's time to get the show on the road.

France &c are able to stal this day by day and soon it's going to be too late.

The seemingly unfocused and at times countradictory message coming from the Bush administration is adding to the anxiety.

Before Gulf War I the message was clear, this time it's garbled.

[stylin19a]

I would like to see an absolute smoking gun myself....but that probably wont happen until we go into IRAQ. Saddam is really snookered. He can't prove WMD are destroyed, yet says they are, so he can't use them in a war with the U.S.
If he does, the whole world gets to bite the U.S's big one.

President Bush has played it kewl, right from the get go. He absolutely cornered & treed the RATS.

President Bush: "I want a Homeland Security Dept, answereing to me."
Dems: "No, it must be a Cabinet position."
President Bush: "Ok"

How about:

President Bush: "we're taking out IRAQ". Dems: "Not without a U.N. resolution"
President Bush: "Ok"

or this

President Bush: "We will use force to disarm Saddam"
Dems: "you can't without congress approval"
President Bush: "You already have given it to me"
Desm: "oh ya, I forgot, well we want a do-over"

Bottom line....stay focused, keep your powder dry and wait for the whites of their eyes.!

[TomB]

What makes you think we arent' doing anything in Iraq right now?

IMHO, the war is half over. I believe we've been all over the country undermining Saddam's support with his military and setting up resistance groups. All this UN crap is window dressing.

IMHO

[Southack]

"What I am impatient about is the horrible way the process leading up to the war is being handled. I.E. repetitively saying "time is running out" and Powell getting the US caught in a predictable UN quagmire."

What UN "quagmire"?

When/IF we want to go in, then we'll do so.

Come on, don't be dumb. Think. Hmmm... Did Bush go to the UN *before* smashing the Taliban in Afghanistan?

No. He did not. That's a big clue to Iraq and other foreign policy issues.

So let me S P E L L this out to you: Bush went to the UN regarding Iraq to set the UN up.

And in the process of weeding out who all are our real friends and bitter enemies at the UN, Bush also told Americans *precisely* what we needed to hear (i.e. that we would act in our nation's own best interests *regardless* of the UN votes).

If you will pay keen attention to what GWB actually says (rather than what the press *claims* GWB says), then you'll know precisely how GWB will behave in the future.

When he says that you'll get a tax cut, then that's what you'll get. When he says that we'll hunt down the 9/11 terrorists one by one, then that's what you'll get, etc.

So there is no UN "quagmire". You've *already* been told that U.S. will behave in our own best interests *regardless* of what the UN votes on, so there isn't much cause to be alarmed by various UN posturing, now is there?!

The UN is its own game. That Bush brought the UN into the Iraq issue should always be juxtaposed with Bush *not* bringing in the UN regarding our Afghanistan invasion (i.e. something different is in play here).

[Jhoffa_]

According to Clintoon comments Bush made an arrangement with Saddam - Don'r use WMD and we don't overrun baghdad.

If so then it was a mistake..

For my part, the only "arrangement" with regard to WMD's that I know of went something like:

"Use WMD's and you'll be sorry you did.."

[Wifky]

I am so angry I agree with you, and its heartbreaking.

[JFC]

YOU BACK TO DNC...

YOU AINT ONE OF US

[jwalsh07]

The Brits are playing pat on the ass at the UN. British public opinion is turning in favor of the war thanks in large part to the gumption displayed by Tony Blair and the guts and honesty displayed by that liberal female politician over there who knows evil when she sees it.

Relax.

[pfflier]

I wondered for a time "Why all the talk and no action?"

As events are unfolding now, I am seeing that President Bush has a lot more information than I do and knows what he is doing.

To decapitate Al Quaida before going in to Iraq is a wonderful way to reduce the terrorism threat to our homeland.

The liberals in the US and the world have taken advantage of him and have been bashing us as a country. Even the most lame-brained can see that this is orchestrated. They have "outed" themselves. We should not forget their hatred and propaganda pandering in the next few weeks when they try to be buddies again.

The communists always said that they would beat the US because we have no patience.

I see, with just a little more patience, the end of Al Quaida, Iraq and the UN all in one package. Well worth the wait.

[Miss Marple]

Are we now taking Clinton's word for anything? I missed the part where he was proven to be truthful.

[BJR]

Bless you!!!

[Southack]

Well said (in #74).

[Jhoffa_]

No kidding..

The way Blair swapped sides (absolutely HUGE Liberal when Clinton was in power come War Hawk when Dubya takes office) I figured he was just a mushy good for nothing..

I didn't think he had it in him to stand against public opion like he has. I was really shocked because after I saw the polls opposing action in Iraq, I figured for sure he was a write off.

[Natural Law]

This is exactly why I didn't vote for you!

[TLBSHOW]

How much to they pay you to be blind sometimes?