Bush seen as rejecting Iraq lifeline

[rodeodance]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/10/MNGVOMT3NG1.DTL


Bush seen as rejecting Iraq lifeline
Study Group's advice likely to go begging, experts say

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Sunday, December 10, 2006


(12-10) 04:00 PST Washington -- Much of Washington is looking at President Bush as a man standing on quicksand in Iraq, refusing the branch offered by his father's friend to save his presidency and the country from a historic blunder.

Bush looks at history, too. A day after the release of a grim assessment of the war by the Iraq Study Group, headed by James Baker, a close friend of Bush's father who served as secretary of state for President George H.W. Bush, and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, Bush conceded the need for tactical shifts, but he left it to those who follow him into the Oval Office to decide whether to leave Iraq.

"Will we have the resolve and confidence in liberty to prevail?" he asked. That question is "not going to face this government ... because we made up our mind. We've made that part clear. It'll face future governments. There will be future opportunities for people to say, 'Well, it's not worth it. Let's just retreat.' "

Standing at a point in history as fraught with consequence as his decision to invade Iraq nearly four years ago, Bush is in full flower of what he calls resolve and others call obduracy. The Baker-Hamilton report has left Bush isolated even within his own party.

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[MasonJar]

1. WWIII will be credited to you, George. You'll go down in history

alright...way, way down...Atilla the Hun level.

[brook]

2. Has it reached the time

for what's left of the GOP to demand he step down ala Nixon? I really can't see another option. Can you?

[Sam1]

4. This will happen only if the Dem's

conduct the proper investigations in the proper way. Give the people the facts and let them decide. That radical idea seems to have little traction on either side of the political divide at this time.

The real pressure for Nixon to resign came after the Firing of Cox. The amount of mail and telegrams that hit capital hill was astounding calling for impeachment was astounding. That was the beginning of the end.

I sent a telegram to both of my Senators and received back a reply saying that they were waiting to get all the facts. I then started seeing letters to the editor expressing the feeling that anyone that needed more facts was either stupid or a coward and news articles expressing the same feeling. It was easy to see that the people were disguised and wanted some thing done.

The democrats are correct to say that they will not put impeachment on the table. That is the job of the people and if they want impeachment on the table the political insiders be they republican or democrat will not be able to keep it off. Remember what happened the last time the political insiders ginned up an impeachment.

[partylessinOhio]

3. Time has come for a straight jacket.

We can no longer wait for the elected in Washington to do their jobs and we cannot let more troops die for BushLark.

[Skittles]

5. the little pissant thinks he is a real president

you didn't figure on that happening, did you, bush whores???

[Printer70]

6. Bush looks less troubled

The article points out that Bush looks less troubled these days. I've noticed that as well.

I think Bush sincerely beleves there a fixed number of "terrorists" in Iraq and if they just kill those people, the day will have been saved. But he doesn't realize that our presence in the region is turning ordinary Iraqi citizens into "terrorists" who don't want a foreign occupying force in their country. To say nothing of the funded terrorism from Iran and Syria.