Comforting headline: "Bush vows to finish job in Iraq, pursue agenda"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_bush

"I'll continue to reach out to our friends and allies, our partners in the EU and NATO, to promote development and progress, to defeat the terrorists and to encourage freedom and democracy as alternatives to tyranny and terror," he said. But Bush flatly refused to change course on foreign policy and declined to say whether he would draw from opposition Democrats for his cabinet or seek a consensus nominee for any vacancy on the US Supreme Court.

Bush said he had not yet decided on whether to boost US troop levels in Iraq ahead of elections scheduled for January or how much more money was needed for the war effort there, calling reports of planned increases "pure speculation."

"We're on the path to stability," he said. "These elections are important, and we will respond to the requests of our commanders on the ground. And I've yet to hear from our commanders on the ground that they need more troops."

Bush, who has held fewer solo press conferences than any recent president, frequently cut off reporters trying to ask follow-up questions, quipping he could do so "now that I've got the will of the people at my back."

[MSgt213]

1. Have your sons and daughters report to my office first thing Monday

[moez]

2. Unfortunately....

President Kerry would have produced the same headline...

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Yes that was one of the major disappointments about Kerry -- his support

for the Iraq war.

The Nation Magazine does little news snippets on AAR -- today I believe I heard one about the fact that every Senator that took a firm stand against the Iraq war won his race handily.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. On comcast, that article was posted with the "Bush as The Lord" halo

picture. It made me change my homepage. :puke:

[Zero Division]

5. I see 2 possible outcomes now for Iraq

1) 4 years of increasingly dramatic destruction and death for the Iraqi people and our soldiers

2)"Mission Accomplished Part Deux": Bush leaves Iraq even more of a flaming hell hole than it was under Saddam, but Bush declares victory anyway so we can use the youth of America as cannon fodder for a whole new unnecessary terrorist-rallying war.

I was one of those willing to give a Kerry administration a chance to set things straight in Iraq. I thought the international community might actually get substantially involved and reverse the downward spiral there. I thought we at least had to give it a try. But now that I see that the same inept NeoCon ideologues will be running things into the ground again, I now officially join the rest of you in saying "Get us the f*ck out, now!"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. I'm guessing we're looking at option #1...

...more money, more bodies, more destruction, more enemies worldwide.

And while I don't plan on changing my screen name from "Bush_Eats_Beef" to "Prophet_Of_Doom," I hope we all firmly grasp the danger that lurks behind a fanatical religious zealot feeling that he has been given a "mandate"...

At this point, George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden are two sides of the same coin...one representing his HIGHLY flawed Christian vision, the other standing on "radical" Islamic ideals that are nowhere to be found in the Koran.

They're the same guy. One has a beard and wears robes. The other drives around in his pickup truck on the Crawford pig farm. But underneath the veneer, you're looking at the same man.

[tsuki]

7. Except Osama has a higher IQ.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. Yes, and the fact that...

...Bush is prone to sudden fits of temper and irrational behavior, while Bin Laden just sits back and mocks Bush.

Best case scenario in all of this is that Bin Laden is full of threats and hot air, and that he (or any other global nut case) NEVER creates a scenario in which Junior is forced to "react."

[Dukakis88]

8. First item on Bush agenda: blow up ancient statues of Buddha...

Oh, that was the Taliban. I keep getting these right wing extremists mixed up.

[Gin]

9. One plus of his getting 4 more years...is...he now has to finish the

mess HE created....in all of his life...george has never had to do that...does anyone really think he will make the right decisions this time around with no holds barred by getting his so-called mandate?

If anything...he will be worse, and it will only hasten his downfall....for that we will have a front row seat.

[Disturbed]

10. "will of the people"

There are a few million people that wish this asshole would drop dead ASAP and cheney, as well. Uh, oh but then we would have another asshole taking their places. We are doomed for at least another two years.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Folks, Bush will NOT win in Iraq. Bank on it.

The Iraqis will NEVER let him win, and they will never accept any leader who is tainted by association with Americans. Period.

You cannot win militarily out there unless you also win out there politically among the Iraqis.

Sooner or later, Bush will "lose" Iraq, and Iraq will have an Islamic government - exactly what Bushco does NOT want.

:bounce:

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. ARROGANT ASS!

:grr: I HATE HIM!