President Bush: Iraq violence is a 'positive moment'

[Nitrogenica]

Source: Times Online

President Bush gave warning yesterday that Iraq’s “fragile situation” required the US to maintain a strong military presence there, even as he defended the withdrawal of British troops from Basra, the scene of heavy fighting in recent days.

In an interview with The Times, he backed the Iraqi Government’s decision to “respond forcefully” to the spiralling violence by “criminal elements” and Shia extremists in Basra. “It was a very positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation that is willing to take on elements that believe they are beyond the law,” the President said.

Asked if British troops had retreated to the relative safety of the Basra airbase too hastily last year, Mr Bush said that the pullback had been “based upon success” in quelling violence, adding that he remained grateful for the contribution made by British Forces from “day one” of the war.

Mr Bush, who had spent the morning being briefed on Iraq by the Pentagon before an imminent announcement on US troop levels, said that despite “substantial gains” since the US military surge began last year, much work was needed to “maintain the success we’ve had”.


Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3628928.ece

[YDogg]

1. bush is an idiot.

every day he proves it.

[mcctatas]

2. well then they obviously don't need us anymore...

mission accomplished president fuckstick, bring them home!

[PSPS]

3. Of course it's a 'positive moment' for him. Death, violence, torture all give him and his ilk wood.

[magellan]

4. When the surge was "working" we had to stay

...and now when it stops "working" we have to stay.

Our troops and the Iraqi people remain in a hellish nightmare from which death is the only escape while BushCo go on justifying every up and down as another reason we can't leave.

And America sleeps.

[Scairp]

5. Once a dickhead, always a dickhead

Did someone actually expect him to say something intelligent at this point about anything going wrong in Iraq? Sorry if you're disappointed.:sarcasm:

[Stuart G]

6. Black is White, Peace is War, Love is Hate...

So.......Positive is Negative.....I seem to have heard about this before..many years before this.....

[Thepricebreaker]

7. I think we are all missing the point here...

This is all the IRAQ army fighting.. we are not involved at this point.. isnt this what we want? Have them take over and we get out ASAP? Or does it ALWAYS have to be bad even when its really not.

[Zorra]

8. Bu*h is a reptilian sociopathic monster. A creature without a shred of conscience. n/t

[Amonester]

9. "...elements that believe they are beyond the law" - smirk, smirk

"a sovereign nation that is willing to take on elements that believe they are beyond the law"

So the US is not a sovereign nation, since nobody is willing to (EFFECTIVELY) DO that to the chainy/bu$h junta, who break laws first, and ask for retroactive immunity later.

[Amonester]

10. Freud called that illness "PSYCHO-logical projection"

chimpy's mentally ill
M*A*S*H should treat it