Can anyone explain how/why, in a matter so serious that it requires the continued exposure of 140,000 US troops to constant serious injury or death, and has cost the lives of more than 2500 of our soldiers over the last 43 months...that there could be such a clear disconnect between what president Bush says to justify continued US military presence in Iraq, and what his wife believes that he says....and that he stands for?
<b>If what the president says about why we fight, doesn't matter, why do you think that that his "rhetoric" doesn't matter? Where does that leave the US families of Iraq war dead, and the soldiers who continue to serve?</b>
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.....Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’
During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”
Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’ Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/22/...ay-the-course/
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...060918-15.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
September 18, 2006
Interview of Mrs. Bush by Meredith Viera, NBC "Today" Show
NBC Studios
Rockefeller Center
New York, New York
.....MRS. BUSH: Well, I'm on the campaign trail, but he is, too. But you know that --
Q You've raised a tremendous amount of money -- I believe it's $11 million -- for Republican candidates. When you are out there and you meet somebody who's on the fence, isn't sure how they're going to vote at this point, and they ask you about the war in Iraq, what do you say to them?
<h3>MRS. BUSH: Well, I say exactly what the President says, that we need to stay the course;</h3> that it's really in our interest as Americans to make sure Iraq can build a stable democracy. You've seen lately, in the last few weeks, the Prime Minister of Iraq talking here. They want us to stay there, they want to be able to build a democracy. And if we left now, we would leave a country without the support they need to build a democracy.
I'm optimistic about it. I think they really can build a democracy --
Q And yet, so many people are uneasy --
MRS. BUSH: Of course, people are. No one wants war. The President doesn't want war. No one does....
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