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ENOUGH POLITICS FOR ME...I'LL STICK WITH THE MONEY MAKING BOARDS...THANKS AGAIN GENTS FOR THE NICE GO AROUND
it aint ever gonna happen after what dim son has done to america
exactly let iran do what they want and when they get out of hand...well there is the neuton bomb for them...byebye
Now we are starting to make sense here...common ground is good
Bush postures while Americans die
July 11, 2007 - 7:32am.
Violence mounts as President pleads for more time
With his failed Iraq policy crumbling around him, an embattled President George W. Bush Tuesday pleaded for more time from a growing list of Republican dissenters, a skeptical Democratic Congress and a disillusioned American public.
As Bush stubbornly claims his lost won can still be won, more Americans and Iraqis died in an attack inside the heavily-fortified Green Zone and a roadside bomb today destroyed a military Hummer, killing or wounding an undisclosed number of soldiers.
Yet as the carnage mounts, Bush stubbornly refuses to budge on Iraq and refuses to admit failure in a war that just about everyone else says is lost.
Reports AFP:
Facing the most potent attack yet from Congress on the war as his political influence dims, Bush said generals on the battlefield must decide troop strength, not frustrated politicians in Washington.
But Democrats fired up a new assault on US war strategy with a demand for troop withdrawals within four months, with most combat troops to be home by the end of next April. Bush has already vetoed a timeline-based approach.
The president told a friendly audience of business leaders in the Midwestern state of Ohio that he had a "plan to lead to victory" despite a bloody three-month period of US combat deaths and raging violence in Iraq.
While criticizing Iraq's government for not doing enough to promote reconciliation, Bush asked lawmakers to wait for the US commander in Iraq to deliver a key progress report on his troop surge strategy, due in September.
"I call upon the United States Congress to give General David Petraeus a chance to come back and tell us whether his strategy is working, and then we can work together on a way forward," Bush said.
Bush spoke days before an interim assessment is due on the operation to surge 30,000 more troops into Iraq, amid reports the Iraqi government has met none of its required political and military targets under the plan.
A poll released Tuesday showed the political logic behind waning Republican enthusiasm for the war: opposition to the war mounted and Bush's approval rating fell to a new low.
Seven in 10 Americans favor removing nearly all US troops from Iraq by April, said the USA Today/Gallup poll. And 62 percent of those surveyed over the weekend said the United States had made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq -- the first time that figure exceeded 60 percent.
Only one in five said the troop surge starting in January had improved the situation.
As Bush continues to claim his plan is working, violence in Iraq continues to mount.
Writes Jay Deshmukh of AFP:
Insurgents opened fire on the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least three people, as US President George W. Bush rejected a new wave of opposition to his strategy for the strife-torn country.
The US embassy in the Green Zone "is currently aware of three fatalities: a US military service member, an Iraqi citizen, and a third-country national of unknown nationality," a statement from the US state department said.
It said that "multiple rounds of indirect fire" were launched at the zone, but did not give further details.
The walled area also houses the British embassy and the Iraqi parliament, and it has been regularly attacked in recent weeks.
The latest attack came hours after gunmen in civilian cars opened fire on Iraqi policemen manning a checkpoint near the restive town of Samarra, killing five, according to police Captain Riyad Yussef.
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DUMBYA -- The great imposter.....
i think bigger issues exists........containment is the only way out.............
we should just move to containment
Agreed..........
WHAT A GREAT PRES....DIG HIM UP MAKE HIM BIONIC SEND HIM BACK TO WHITEHOUSE
YUP JUST ANOTHER 10-15 YRS OF NEEDLESS DEATH
PULL EM OUT FRIG EM ALL LET MIDDLE EAST NUKE EACH OTHER
Bush asks remaining GOP loyalists to "stay the mistake."
Taking Shame to a Whole New Level
The president’s speech in Cleveland yesterday wasn’t just a bizarre defense for the status quo in Iraq; it managed to also include some bizarre ideas about healthcare. This gem, for example, won the coveted Clueless Quote of the Day from Dan Froomkin.
“The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”
Kevin asks, “Did somebody actually write that line for him? Was it adlibbed?” In fact, it was the latter; Bush’s event was kind of a town-hall style speech. He didn’t have a podium or a teleprompter, so this was the president without a net. His comments on healthcare reflected whatever thought popped into his head.
Kevin added, “Does Bush really believe that emergency rooms are a great way of providing medical care for poor people?”
BREAKING: Bush blocks Miers from appearing before House Judiciary Committee
BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHHA TOO FUNNY
aint gonna ever happen
I can't wait to vote for Jeb. Then after 8 years on of George's twin girls. One for Prez one for A.G. Ah yes a Kennedy type dynasty in the making.
usa needs to clean house
BUSH STONEWALLS CONGRESS: MIERS WILL NOT SHOW UP FOR TESTIMONY
Yesterday, the WaPo had quite a damaging scoop about our embattled Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. In 2005, the FBI prepared a series of reports for Gonzales, detailing multiple instances in which the agency illegally obtained personal information about Americans that agents were not entitled to have. Six days later, Gonzales testified to a Senate committee that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. “There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse,” Gonzales told senators.
It led to a straightforward proposition: either Gonzales read these reports and lied to the Senate, or he blew off reports about serious widespread FBI abuses.
Gonzales’s fate looked slightly worse when the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review and the Assistant Attorney General for National Security both said that Gonzales had been briefed directly on the FBI’s “mistakes” and “violations.”
So, that’s it, right? Gonzales knew about the FBI problems, but told senators that there wasn’t a single verified case of abuse. Point, set, match? Game over?
No, Gonzales’ office has a new spin to rationalize all of this.
[Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein] defended the 2005 statement by Gonzales that he was unaware of civil liberties abuses related to the government’s counterterrorism effort. Wainstein cited what he described as a dictionary definition of “abuse” in defending Gonzales’s remark. […]
Wainstein said Gonzales was saying only that there had been no intentional acts of misconduct, rather than the sorts of mistakes the FBI was self-disclosing. “That is why I cited the definition of ‘abuse,’ which in Webster’s . . . implies some sort of intentional conduct. And I think that is sort of the common understanding of the word ‘abuse,’ ” Wainstein said.
Got that? Those weren’t abuses; they were just instances in which FBI agents illegally obtained personal information about Americans that they were not entitled to have. Since the FBI didn’t mean to repeatedly violate the law, it’d be silly to characterize these as “abuses.” Therefore, logically, Gonzales was completely honest and forthcoming.
Somebody please just make these people go away.
dim son is a....
sure he's a liar and 10,000 times worse than Nixon ever was in fact Nixon was an ok pres cept for the burglers ...oh well
Wilson: "The Obstruction Of Justice Is Ongoing And [Bush] Has Emerged As Its Greatest Protector"
Bush Admin Suppressed Public Health Reports For Politics
pelosi just may get it done
I am so ashamed of myself, for voting for that stupid lying moron, his android yes man wife is no better and reminds me of stepford wives...I wonder????lol
Leahy says Bush's executive privilege assertion worse than Nixon's
THE REAL TRUTH "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
The Giggling Murder Monkey is rethinking his diplomatic options in Iraq, but he won't reconsider his failed military strategy before another super-rosy assessment from war commanders is presented in September.
Bush's top war advisers, Moe, larry and Curly, went to Capitol Hill to assure Republican supporters that a precipitate pullout of troops won't happen. Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Jon Kyl and others met with the two advisers in Cheney's office off the Senate floor.
Graham said members were told that Bush would back them in fiercely opposing legislation by Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Sane), that would order troop withdrawals to start in 120 days.
WHAT A LYING SOB IMPEACH!!!
Bush Orders Ex-Aide Myers To Refuse To Testify Before HouseLast update: 7/11/2007 3:19:36 PM(MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires
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