Report: Iraq poses problems for Bush

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (AP)

President Bush is walking a political tightrope on Iraq. He stands to benefit if public attention to the violence ebbs, and there are indications voters' focus is drifting, despite last week's fierce fighting in Najaf and turmoil in other cities.

Record oil prices, concerns over jobs, terrorism threat levels and the debate over restructuring U.S. intelligence agencies are vying for people's attention.

Yet by criticizing Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's talk of reducing troop levels in Iraq, as the president did last week on his five-day Western campaign swing, Bush risked drawing even more attention to the bloodshed. ..

"The only thing that would help Bush is a real change in circumstances," Mellman said. "I can't imagine what he's going to do between now and Election Day that's going to enable him to make that happen."

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[Cerridwen]

1. :-(

"I can't imagine what he's going to do between now and Election Day that's going to enable him to make that happen."


Unfortunately, I can imagine several things to make that happen.

[Bandit]

2. I can even imagine airplanes being used as weapons

I wonder if this Administration can imagine that? Condi??? Anyone??

[TahitiNut]

3. WW2. Japan. Kamikaze.

:shrug:

No need to "imagine."

[bemildred]

4. I nominate this for dumb headline of the day.

:puke:

[Kierkegaard]

5. Geez

"Iraq poses problems for Bush." Pronouncing the word 'nuclear' poses problems for Bush.

The emphasis on mocking and slandering his opponent shows me that he's pissed away the last 4 years and hasn't taken the time to put together any kind of platform for this election, whether by arrogance or stupidity. Georgie has again forgetten to do his homework.

In addition, his numbers on credibility have taken a beating lately. It might be a long shot for him to win, terra attack or otherewise.

[krkaufman]

13. Well said. n/t

"The emphasis on mocking and slandering his opponent shows me that he's pissed away the last 4 years and hasn't taken the time to put together any kind of platform for this election, whether by arrogance or stupidity. Georgie has again forgetten to do his homework."

[Cerridwen]

6. Okay, I've been dying to ask this

ever since I saw 9/11 (opening night in Vegas!)

Does anyone else here ever think that this must be the way the Germans felt when they heard what Hitler and his gang were up to?

They didn't have the internet and all the media access; tainted and otherwise; that we do, but surely as they heard things?

I was just wondering.

[madrchsod]

7. not the" German people"

they followed him until the bombs started falling and they realized they were doomed. it was the Jews,the leftists,homosexuals,and the gypsies that knew they were all doomed when Hitler was "elected" to rule Germany...

[Cerridwen]

8. Many of those Jews and leftists and

homosexuals as well as Protestants, Catholics and many, many, others, I thought, considered themselves Germans. The gypsies I believe claim a different identity; sorry for not googling it for this post.

Just as many of us leftists, homosexuals, Protestants, Catholics, Baptists, feminists, environmentalists, etc., think of ourselves as Americans regardless of whether or not we agree with each other or our government.

[nolabels]

11. Don't fret, mostly the Nazi's came to power because of corporatist

The hate for others that were different than them might of been there all along but without some people with big bucks pumping the Nazi's up they would have never been able to do the things they did.

Once the monster got out of the bag it was just too late to stop it. The scape-goat part is just natural occurrence that happens when people hate them self or the things they are doing (and gets worse as they fail).

It takes more than just yucky mud to make an ugly mud pie.

[koopie57]

9. I don't really

care that Iraq poses problems for *. He asked for it and he got it, but what I do care about is that * poses problems for Iraq. I sometimes am so disgusted at our media and where they focus their energies on. Thousands of people are without homes, food, their loved one and the media chooses to focus on one man who in due time will be no more significant than an pilonidal cyst.

[louis-t]

10. * is blabbing all over today

that the 10 guys on the Iraqi soccer team don't have to worry about being tortured by Uday anymore because he attacked Iraq. Hmmm, worth 30,000 lives?

[daleo]

12. They just have to worry about getting killed in a crossfire when they get

home. And being arrested and tortured by U.S. forces, instead of by Uday. Besides, maybe Uday just had some "bad apples" under him that he didn't know about, like Bush himself claims to have.

[MichiganVote]

14. Well that's just great. Our guys can get killed for soccer now. WTF!

Let's see first it was WMD, chemical & biological, then Saddam Hussein was a threat, then inferences to terrorists, then back to Saddam Hussein and how much better the world is w/o him in power and now soccer. Soccer solves it all. Our guys die so the Iraqi's can play soccer in Greece. We pay billions and billions of dollars out of our treasury so these guys can play soccer.

Bush is mocking the American people plain as day.