So, what exactly is this so-called "Artificial Time-line" that * keeps opposing???

[Up2Late]

O.K., so if he's opposed to "Artificial" Time-lines, maybe it's time to tell him to Suck on this "Official" Time-line!?!?

I mean, he already declared "Mission Accomplished" years ago and every war must end at some point, so lets make it Official!

Or is the "Official Time-line" January 20,2009 as the day the withdrawal starts?:shrug:

OR! WHAT IF after Bush Vetoes the "Emergency Supplemental" the Congress just moves on, hey, he Vetoed it. Sorry Troops, Wars Over.:think:

[lyonn]

1. Or, make george admit this is an unending war!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Unending? It's only been going for a short while ...

Since 2003, by GWB's thinking.

Or, since 1991, when we entered Iraq at the request of the former regime leaders from Kuwait.

Or, since 1919 when lines were drawn on a map of the former Ottoman empire.

Or, since it started in 1095, at the request of Pope Urban II, which seems to be the view of some hard-liners.


To me, 1991 is the start of this thing. We've been patrolling Iraq constantly since then. And sixteen years is enough.

Unfortunately, I don't think 1/20/09 is when we start pulling out. There's a lot of so-called diplomacy that the new Democratic administration will try before actually pulling the plug on this horror-show.

[JackintheGreen]

2. Any timeline that bookends this travesty within this administration

If they can drag it out to the next president they can blame his/her administration for everything. EVERYTHING.

You know it, I know it, and they know it. And the sheeple will eventually buy into it. And in exactly the same way that Tom Delay can get away with calling Reid and Pelosi traitors for doing exactly what he did during the Kosovo bombings. 15 minutes of listening to Rush and the "heads will be saying, "you know...they *are* traitors!"

Depressing.

[lyonn]

3. Sure like the idea of blaming george if He vetoes the bill.

Maybe that is Reid's thinking. Our president does own his allegiance to the People. No one voted for a dictator.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. LOL! Noted that "artificial" also. Before, it was "arbitrary"

IIRC. Bottom line: He just wants a fight he can bash Democrats with. How can you tell? The "artificial" timelines/benchmarks/deadlines, etc. are non-binding. Bush is under no official obligation to follow them. He could easily put one of those special signing statements attached to the bill and VOILA!!! He's got his money!

He'd rather pick fight over something that doesn't exist.

[jobycom]

6. He wants an organic timeline instead

You know, one fertilized by bullshit, then overpriced and mislabeled?

[Up2Late]

8. But along those lines, wouldn't a "Synthetic Time-line" be better, because...

...synthetic fertilizer is made using Natural Gas, which would make them more money??? (joking of course):evilgrin:

[Bitwit1234]

7. bush and cheney need the troops in Iraq permanently

they will have to guard the oil wells that the oil companys are getting the contracts for. How do you expect them to make all that money if they don't have our troops guarding the wells.

[jmowreader]

9. Let me take a stab at it

In our increasingly-disconnected president's gossamer world, this is the timeline:

We enter the country to liberate it.

We capture the Evil Dictator Saddam Hussein and hang him by the neck until he is dead.

We design the Iraqis a Democratic Form of Government where the Shia, Sunnis and Kurds are like the Democrats, Republicans and (whatcha think, guys, maybe the Libertarians)--just political parties.

The Iraqis embrace this Democratic Form of Government and become peaceful and loving.

The rest of the Middle East sees the new, democratic, peaceful and loving Iraq and begs the United States to make their countries just like Iraq.

At that point the world loves the United States so much they give George W. Bush two Nobel Peace Prizes.

In reality, they're about ready to give Bush the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research which proves it is possible for the human male to draw oxygen, hydration and nutrition through his skin because it's impossible to do it any other way when you've had your head shoved up your ass for 60 years.

Bush's first and foremost problem is he didn't understand what he was going up against. Bush's people probably thought Shia and Sunni were like...oh, Methodists and Lutherans--two fairly similar Protestant faiths. In reality, they're more like the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland after Bloody Sunday, complete with artillery.

Now as for this "artificial timeline" nonsense...the natural timeline is as I stated above, where the Iraqis become a united, democratic people and then we leave. Unfortunately for Shrub, they'll become "united" in the way I described in a post yesterday: they'll figure out they can kill lots more infidels (that would be us) if they quit shooting at one another.

[Up2Late]

10. kick n/t

:kick: