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 Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: The Almighty TX Shrub sticks a finger up his ass. |
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) - President Bush acknowledged American doubts about his Iraq strategy but argued it was worth it in a major address on Tuesday night that sought to connect Iraq's violent insurgency to Osama bin Laden and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"Iraq is where they are making their stand. So we will fight them there, we will fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won," Bush said.
Democrats immediately charged Bush failed to offer a clear plan for success in Iraq. "It is not enough for the president to say 'stay the course' and make a few minor adjustments. The president needs to lay out a concrete plan," said New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer.
Bush, whose approval ratings have fallen to the lowest levels of his presidency in part because of growing fears about Iraq, invoked the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, repeatedly and cited al Qaeda leader bin Laden as a reason for continuing the effort in Iraq.
No connection between Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 attacks was ever established, but Bush said Iraq is a central front in the war on terrorism in part because the insurgency is led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has sworn allegiance to bin Laden.
"The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11, if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like bin Laden," Bush said.
Bush also argued against setting a deadline for a U.S. withdrawal as some members of the U.S. Congress have demanded.
"Setting an artificial deadline would send the wrong message to the Iraqis, who need to know that America will not leave before the job is done," he said.
Likewise, Bush said he had no plans to send more U.S. troops to Iraq to bolster the 138,000 already there, saying it would "undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight."
California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, had doubts about Bush's argument.
"You know the president is on weak ground when he exploits the sacred ground of 9/11 so many times in his speech knowing that there was no connection between 9/11 and the war in Iraq when he initiated his preemptive strike," she told NBC.
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This is just the first 1/3 of the story. If you want to read more, click here:http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8921327&pageNumber=1
bin Laden who? Bush hasn't had time to think about bin Laden for the past 2½ years. Why is he worried about him now? Could it be that the Dynamic Duo are planning another madcap adventure to scare everyone into another war?
How dare this asshole, who went AWOL from the Natl. Guards, stand at Ft. Bragg, America's home for special forces, and mention the tragedy of 9/11. How dare he think he has the right to put so many lives at risk for the benefit of his oil buddies.
Here's a new throne for the Almighty Texas Shrub to sit on.  Impeach the son of a beach now!!!
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He's a piece o' work, I'll tell ya what.
Story:
Last week, when I was being transferred from one hospital to another for my warm-and-fuzzy "procedure" the ambulance EMT asked the usual:
What's your name?
What day is it?
What's your date of birth?
Who's the president of the United States?
...to determine my lucidity, etc.
My answer to the last question was something like, "Some asshole named Bush..."
Both EMT's laughed. On the ride over, the head EMT, a transplanted Brit, told me that he asks that question at least half a dozen times a day...and has for years. Here's what he's learned:
1. Nobody likes him.
2. Nobody voted for him...
...yet, here he is in office for another 4 years. Then he asked, "Now...what's wrong with THAT picture? Looks to me like governments do whatever they WANT to do...and voting is a joke."
Yep.
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