Bush: Leaving Iraq Would Be a Mistake

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that "it would be a terrible mistake" to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq and that politics should not play any part in a decision about withdrawal.

"We will make decisions about troops levels based upon the capability of the Iraqis to take the fight to the enemy," Bush said in El Paso, Texas. "I will make decisions on the level of troops based upon the recommendations of commanders on the ground."

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Talking with reporters in El Paso, Texas, Bush said he would make decisions about troop levels based on the advice of military commanders.

"If they tell me the Iraqis are ready to take more and more responsibility and that we'll be able to bring some Americans home, I will do that," the president said. "It's their recommendation."

"Secondly, we want to win," Bush said. "The whole objective is to achieve victory against the terrorists."

[Don Claybrook]

1. As soon as the Iraqis are able to brutally supress their own

we'll leave.

OK, got it.

[Tesla]

2. The terrorist have turned into normal everyday Iraqi Citizens

Sick of US being there occupying their country.

[Demeter]

3. He's Batting A Thousand, Folks!

Everything Bush says is the exact opposite of true so it logically follows:


GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW, TODAY--DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $2b!

[IChing]

4. Recommendations Commanders vs The commander in Thief

I am glad that a general is in charge of our nations policies and that the chain of command is now an upside down Christmas tree.

[wookie294]

5. We won't withdraw until Iraq's soldiers can successfully defend Iran n/t

[Serial Mom]

6. Yeah, if it's what he WANTS to hear from them!

"If they tell me the Iraqis are ready to take more and more responsibility and that we'll be able to bring some Americans home, I will do that," the president said. "It's their recommendation."

otherwise, they will be let go!

[dutchdemocrat]

7. Who cares.

They want the occupiers to leave. So get the fuck out.

[dutchdemocrat]

9. Time to toss out your ego George... and get them home.

The surprising degree of consensus reached by the main Iraqi factions at the Arab League-orchestrated Reconciliation Conference in Cairo last weekend sharply undercuts the unilateral, guns-and-puppets approach of the Bush administration to the deteriorating situation in Iraq. The common demand by Shia and Kurds as well as Sunnis for a timetable for withdrawal of occupation forces demolishes the administration's argument that setting such a timetable would be a huge mistake. Who would know better - the Iraqis or the ideologues advising Bush?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00348.htm

[yellowcanine]

8. Yeah, like we thing you know anything about military strategy, George.

[cliss]

11. Yes, there's a military man with experience, uh-huh...

Bush is finished and he knows it. The Iraqis will not turn on their own people. They're tribal people and live by allegiances and connections.

That's what stupid Bush doesn't understand. Think: chameleon. They'll walk the walk & talk the talk. But as soon as the U.S. has packed its bags and left......

[saigon68]

10. THE CHIMPANZEE FEEDS AT THE TROUGH

[leftchick]

14. hi saigon

I have not seen you in a long while! :hi:

[saigon68]

23. Been around

Needed the break for a while

[asjr]

12. Every time he opens his mouth and the recorded

message is played he digs himself a little deeper into being non compos mentis(however it is spelled.)

[dkofos]

13. Wrong

Going into Iraq was a mistake.

He doesn't get anything right does he?

[Jacobin]

15. So, he's admitting this is an open-ended, indeterminable quagmire.

Good.

Let the people chew on that morsel for a couple more years.

:mad:

[leftchick]

16. "National Stratergery for a VICTORY in IRAQ" to be released before chimp's

speech. So says scotty.

[kenny blankenship]

17. As big and unforgivable as the mistake of going into Iraq ?

[leftchick]

18. biggest lie in the article...

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"People don't want me making decisions based on politics," the president said. "They want me making decisions based on the recommendations of our generals on the ground. And that's exactly who I'll be listening to."

[IChing]

20. Here is one of the commanders in the field speaking to the troops

[AzDar]

19. Mmmmmkay..we're fighting whom again? Iraqis? "Terraists"? Are

they now indistinguishable from one another? Goddamn, what a mess.

[still_one]

21. PNAC never had any intention of leaving IRAQ

do not believe what the MSM says, they are part of this

We are in the middle of a civil war, and the only way we will get out of Iraq is if we vote the bastards out, most on the repuke side, and some on the dem side like liberman, clinton, etc

I am tired of these chicken hawk repug and dems who love to send our kids to die

Don't they understand the war in iraq is based on a LIE, we have no moral right to be there

[Disturbed]

22. Blood for oil?

"The terrorists want to control the oil. Our way of life will be at risk". George W. Bush (Nov. 2005)

[Voltaire99]

25. You're right: this is a GOP and a GOP-lite disaster

I am tired of these chicken hawk repug and dems who love to send our kids to die

You're far from alone: polls show most Americans are sick of both parties.

Our political class has failed us in every respect. High time for a multi-party system.

[Brooklyn Michael]

24. Ummmmm....George?

Please define "victory against the terrorists." Is this a concrete objective? Or just an amorphous catch-all that can be applied to anything you feel like sending our soldiers off to die for.

And please explain the difference between the 9/11 terrorists, and those who just don't want US forces occupying their country...which we've blown half to hell.

[classysassy]

26. Leaving Iraq

yo dipshit,going to Iraq was the wrong thing to do,leaving is the only thing to do.

[Fire Walk With Me]

27. The Iraqis might regain control of their oil. Wouldn't be prudent!