Bush to be pressed on troop withdrawal

[rodeodance]

Source: ap

Bush to be pressed on troop withdrawal

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
Sun May 27, 4:03 AM ET



WASHINGTON - Even as Pentagon planners search for ways to shift the Iraq mission from combat to support with fewer U.S. troops, Democrats plan to raise their pressure on President Bush to end U.S. involvement in the unpopular war.



Bush signed a war spending bill late Friday that does not set a date for U.S. troop withdrawals. It was a defeat for Democrats who want the president to start pulling troops out of Iraq — an idea roundly rejected by administration officials.

"We are there because the security of this nation depends on a successful outcome," Vice President Dick Cheney told U.S. Military Academy graduates Saturday in West Point, N.Y.

The New York Times reported Saturday that the administration is working on ideas for cutting U.S. forces in Iraq by as much as half, to roughly 100,000, by mid-2008


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Wishout the constant Dem criticism (with the push from the public) this would never had happened last year

[Kagemusha]

1. While I have some sympathy with your assertion...

An AP headline and a dinky article aren't much consolation, as consolation prizes go.

[seafan]

2. So, he will not act until he is shamed and vilified into it. The three year old stamps his foot.

May 27, 2007

Recommendations from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group "appeal to me," the president said. He noted the suggestion that the U.S. military shift from combating the insurgents and focus on training the Iraqi security forces while protecting Iraq's borders and hunting down high-value al-Qaida terrorists.

Bush likely to reject study group call for withdrawal from Iraq

December 16, 2006

The White House was yesterday considering an even deeper military commitment in Iraq, with a short-term deployment of 20,000 extra forces to Baghdad, a day after the US army chief warned that the force could break under the strain of the war.

Meanwhile, the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, ruled out a diplomatic overture to Syria and Iran to enlist their support in stemming the chaos in Iraq.

The two developments reinforce reports that the White House is leaning towards a broad rejection of the recommendations from the Iraq Study Group for a withdrawal of US combat forces by early 2008, and for the opening of talks with Tehran and Damascus.

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The impression that the administration would be unwilling to embrace the findings of the study group has deepened this week, with US officials saying Mr Bush is convinced that a withdrawal from Iraq would lead to even greater chaos.

Andrew Card, a former White House chief of staff, told the Boston Globe yesterday that the president was unlikely to follow recommendations that "cause him to abandon the mission or leave Iraq as a kind of pot boiling over with hatred".

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. STUDY GROUP?

W has avoided study groups since the first day he paid Laura to do his homework, why does ANYBODY think he would listen to one now?
A party who labels educated people as "elite" has already made their statement on education and their reverence for uneducated followers (note that the 19 states backing Gore are ALL among the top 25 states in test scores)

Look at Goodling.. loser from a loser school
Check out stopping stem cell research
Get a load of where evolution vs. bible-study is going

Does anybody think "the dumbing down" of America is an accident? DUMB SLAVES IS GOOD SLAVES... and try not to confuse me with Googling the Internets

[happygoluckytoyou]

3. GIVE THE DEMS SOME SLACK!!!!!!!!!

don't quit the party....
get more active....
the gop has the brains to wait until an organization is successful and then BUY it... as they did with the AARP for example, and the church as another... all you need to do is wait until they are large and then take over.

what is the largest "possibly progressive" group in the USA.... the DEM PARTY

so rather than follow the BULLSHIT MEDIA to "join the tree huggers" who will NEVER have real power...
JOIN THE DEMS, ATTEND THE MEETINGS...AND START TO LEAD

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Um, the Republicans apparently own that, too.

[happygoluckytoyou]

6. AGREED..... BUT

of all the "targets worth taking back" it is a pretty large prize... and it is doable

what is the point of winning "the green party" or "the libratarians"... the whale savers and tree huggers is where the GOP would like to marginalize any freethinkers... great causes but with all of the power of spitting into the wind...

now the DEM PARTY... large and loud... why else do they spend so much time trying to own and lead it (Lieberman is a great example).

we CAN take it back... religion too (the GOP waited until god was big and then bought him out)... but to take it over we need to attend and then lead

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Understood.

I'm a firm believer in using the primary process to weed out the undesirables. It worked with Lieberman. Oh, wait a minute...

[jumpoffdaplanet]

8. Spot on!

:)

[cliss]

9. Well, he's getting closer to telling

the truth.

Dick Cheney: "We are there because the security of this nation depends on a successful outcome."

Glossary
"We are there because the oil of this nation (the U.S.) depends on a successful occupation".

Why can't he just come out and say it?
They're probably furious, all those war planners. They wish they could just come out and say, "Look. We did it for you, don't you get it? "