07-15-2007, 09:35 PM
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#90 (permalink)
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Banned
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If thousand were not killed and wounded as the direct result of these people's hubris (.....or is it their incoherence?) this "reporting" would be offensive.... pathetic, but, under the circumstances, it seems like the reporting of crimes by the criminals, themselves......
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...Y0YjAxYjdiMDk=
July 13, 2007 6:45 PM
He’s Not for Turning
Bush makes his case on Iraq.
By Kate O'Beirne & Rich Lowry
Forget the leaks and the speculation, President George W. Bush is not looking for a way out of the surge and the Iraq war. In a session with about ten conservative journalists Friday afternoon, a confident and determined president made it clear that he is going to see the surge through, and will rely on General David Petraeus’s advice on how to proceed come September, regardless of the political climate in Washington......
.......“How can he possibly do this,” he said, characterizing what critics of the war were thinking. “Can’t he see? Can’t he hear?” (At one point he acknowledged that these decisions aren’t easy — “You don’t know what it’s like to be commander-in-chief until you’re commander-in-chief,” he said.)
He explained “that last fall, if I had been part of this polling, if they had called upstairs and said, do you approve of Iraq I would have been on the 66 percent who said, `No I don’t approve.’ That’s why I made the decision I made. To get in a position where I would be able to say ‘Yes, I approve.’”
President Bush understands the public frustration with the war: “We put highly trained sophisticated military people in harm’s way and they battle $100 IEDs.” He worries about “exhaustion as we’re dealing with these radicals who have a lot of energy and who aren’t going to be tired.” But he said he has “tools” in the debate, including “the bully pulpit and the ability to convince the American people.” He wants both to convince them that success is still possible, and “remind my fellow citizens of what the consequences of failure will be.”.....
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http://www.samefacts.com/archives/ly...rge_w_bush.php
July 15, 2007
Shorter George W. Bush
Posted by Mark Kleiman
George Bush to the <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2VhMzIzNTZkNzBjMzQ0MDE5MWNhOGY0YjAxYjdiMDk=">Ten Tame Scribes</a>:
last fall, if I had been part of this polling, if they had called upstairs and said, do you approve of Iraq I would have been on the 66 percent who said, "No I don’t approve." That’s why I made the decision I made. To get in a position where I would be able to say "Yes, I approve."
In other words:
I'm not nearly as stupid as my supporters. Back when I was telling the world that things in Iraq were going well, and you folks were helping me by calling anyone who said otherwise a traitor, I knew we were all lying.
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