Bush: "So long as I’m the president, my measure of success is victory – and success"

[sabra]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/bush_measure_of_success_succes.html

President Bush was asked today what he says to critics who see no end in sight in the war in Iraq – is it an open-ended war? And he effectively said it is – at least for the remaining 10 months of his presidency.

“So long as I’m the president, my measure of success is victory – and success,’’ the president said in the Rose Garden, standing alongside British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, leader of a nation that has stood as the staunchest ally of the United States at war in Iraq and Afghanistan but has begun to draw down troops from Iraq and is moving its remaining forces “from combat to over-watch.’’

“It hasn’t been easy,’’ Bush said of the war. “It’s been difficult. It’s taken longer than I anticipated. But it’s worth it…. When it comes to troop levels and duration, my question is, what does it take to win?’’

:crazy:

[Bozita]

1. hmmm, I guess it all depends on your definition of success.

Thanks for clarifizering that Mr, President.

[maxpower]

What a friggin' moran

n/t

[tanyev]

2. And he deciderated that all by himself.

[gateley]

3. I think he's surpassed Quayle in the "WTF?" category. Can't wait for the book. nt

[But....]

7. Hope they hire a good writer..

wondering what kind of "stuff" could be slipped in, and if it be worth giving W even a penny more of my money.:evilgrin:

[momster]

30. Libraries

and used book stores will gladly arrange for you to have a copy without a nickel going into GWB's ill-fitting pants.

I invariably ask people to buy new books new because that is the only way the author ever sees actual $$$. But this time, and for this book alone, I say 'buy used'.

[ThatsMyBarack]

34. Welcome to DU, But....!

:hi:

[Brigid]

12. There are plenty of books and calendars . . .

with "Bushims" for your reading pleasure. :evilgrin:

[gateley]

14. I've seen some video compilations

that have reduced me to tears of laughter.

Anything SNL or other comedy writers dream up pale in comparison to the real thing.

[But....]

20. Oh dear Lord...

tell some body else is making money off of W and that he gets none of it, Please!:puke:

[gateley]

25. The ones I've seen are on YouTube ---

nobody gets a cent.

[malaise]

4. I hope someone has his responses

He used a classic double negative which canceled out his garbled, incoherent and incomprehensible fuckery.

[jerryme1]

5. * is a dogged pursuer of freedom on the march, and mission accomplished, and Saddam Hussein

was connected to 9/11.... geez

[Mountainman]

6. Why don't we just cut the funds and tell him to go pound sand?

[LSK]

16. because every VA Hospital in the country would close

He would steal the money to keep it going.

[Mountainman]

37. Can't we cut one and keep the other?

Cut Iraq spending and keep VA spending?

[Clear Blue Sky]

8. His measure of success is success? Huh??

[sabra]

13. don't you get it? when you win - you win!

:sarcasm:

[Clear Blue Sky]

27. Thank you Obi Wan Kenobi for explaining the meaning of the Bushism...

[Parche]

9. win win win win win win win win win

win win win win win


WIN WHAT???

What is victory in Iraq?

[ljm2002]

28. Victory in Iraq is...

...private Western oil companies control the lion's share of the oil revenues. Permanent military bases -- the "tactical pivot", if you will. A Western-friendly nation in the middle of a historically very Western-unfriendly region (and if they won't just be friendly, gol darn it, we'll drop more bombs on them until they do. and we'll make them thank us for not turning all of Iraq into glass -- illustrating our benevolence. but i digress). Christianity uber alles.

They just can't say any of that.

[L. Coyote]

10. Bush brings new meaning to freedom of speech. Free to say whatever wasn't the idea, George.

But mostly, George, I want to know, have you answered your own question yet:

"When it comes to troop levels and duration, my question is, what does it take to win?"

AND: Now, are you wishing you had asked it beforehand?

[sinkingfeeling]

11. What total nonsense when the Moron-in-Chief can't even define what 'victory' would look like!

[JBoy]

15. What does it take to win? Please start by telling us what it MEANS to "win".

Gawd, what an intellectual lightweight.

[Bozita]

17. One thing he ain't, ... Definer-in-Chief

[angrycarpenter]

18. stupid president is stupid

That may be the dumbest non-answer he has ever given.

[tabasco]

19. 28% will consider these words of wisdom.

Bush is nothing but a miserable failure

[Disturbed]

21. The Supreme Court selected a downright Moron.

Man, this has been a miserable seven years.

McSame is on the same level.

[butterfly77]

22. This is how a commander and chief is suppose to approach it...

MR. GIBSON: And Senator Obama, your campaign manager, David Plouffe, said, when he is -- this is talking about you -- when he is elected president, we will be out of Iraq in 16 months at the most; there should be no confusion about that.

So you'd give the same rock-hard pledge, that no matter what the military commanders said, you would give the order: Bring them home.

SENATOR OBAMA: Because the commander in chief sets the mission, Charlie. That's not the role of the generals. And one of the things that's been interesting about the president's approach lately has been to say, well, I'm just taking cues from General Petraeus.

Well, the president sets the mission. The general and our troops carry out that mission. And unfortunately we have had a bad mission, set by our civilian leadership, which our military has performed brilliantly. But it is time for us to set a strategy that is going to make the American people safer.

Now, I will always listen to our commanders on the ground with respect to tactics. Once I've given them a new mission, that we are going to proceed deliberately in an orderly fashion out of Iraq and we are going to have our combat troops out, we will not have permanent bases there, once I've provided that mission, if they come to me and want to adjust tactics, then I will certainly take their recommendations into consideration; but ultimately the buck stops with me as the commander in chief.

And what I have to look at is not just the situation in Iraq, but the fact that we continue to see al Qaeda getting stronger in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, we continue to see anti-American sentiment fanned all cross the Middle East, we are overstretched in a way -- we do not have a strategic reserve at this point. If there was another crisis that was taking place, we would not have a brigade that we could send to deal with that crisis that isn't already scheduled to be deployed in Iraq. That is not sustainable. That's not smart national security policy, and it's going to change when I'm president.

[bushmeister0]

23. "It’s taken longer than I anticipated"? He thought it was over on May 2 2003.

WTF?

[spanone]

24. so long as you're president you shame this country you ignorant fuckwad

[GoesTo11]

26. But what's his measure of victory?

Success - and victory?

[spanone]

32. this question has never been answered but it appeals to the american spirit of win at all costs

the truth is it's an ILLEGAL WAR

[SpiralHawk]

29. My question is, why should we follow Republicon Chickenhawks on their Apocalyptic Crusade?

I mean, really, Commander AWOL Bush, Dickie "Five Military Deferments" Cheney, and a horde of highly paid Chickenhawk propagandists like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Hannity? Why they hell should we send our sons and daughters off to fight this Crusade that you started with a pack of WMD lies, and are continuing with wholesale, bloody, anti-Christian TORTURE, not to mention the deaths, maimings, homelessness, rape and insanity you have LED us into falsely,

you ChickenHawk Republicons are wrong to do this to America, and to Iraq. And you damn well ought to understand why the VAST MAJORITY of honest and patriotic Americans does not support you and your 28% cabal of fear-filled koolaid guzzlers.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. His command of the English language remains unimpaired by acitve brain cells.

[FVZA_Colonel]

33. Is there a name for what happens when someone attempts to define a word or concept

by using that EXACT SAME word or concept in the definition?

[momster]

38. Tautology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_%28rhetoric%29

Of course, the way GWB does it, it becomes tautology squared.

[BeFree]

35. He is, then, by his own words

A MISERABLE FAILURE

FU BUSHCO

[elizfeelinggreat]

36. Wishful thinking

on his part. Not gonna work.

[bdamomma]

39. this man needs his ass thrown out in the streets.

what a disgrace he has made all of us.

[Brigid]

41. Don't worry, he will be.

I thank God several times every day for terms limits.

[Javaman]

40. sometimes, I just would love to be eating a big old greasy burger

and having a sip of a nice cool chocolate malt and have moron* sit down next to me and ask me what I think of him.

With mouth full, I would blurt out, "you suck", thus covering him in burger and shake remains.

That would feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel soooooooooooo good.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

42. "Tomorrow on Today, we'll talk about Today"

"Only it'll be Yesterday, and Today will be Tomorrow"

Somebody lock this dunce on mute please? Ahhhhhhhhhhh