Bush: "It's bad in Iraq"

[dajoki]

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16088150/

Bush says U.S. ‘will prevail’ in Iraq
President to make major decisions and speech after additional reports

Updated: 15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush, standing alongside chief Iraq war ally Tony Blair of Britain, asserted Thursday that the coalition forces "will prevail" in Iraq, saying success depended on victory over extremists across the "broader Middle East."

The president acknowledged that, "It's bad in Iraq."

"It's a tough time and its a difficult moment for America and Great Britain and the task before us is daunting," Bush said a day after a bipartisan commission said his war policies have failed and called for a change in strategy.

The two leaders met a day after the Iraq Study Group headed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton issued a report saying their war policies had failed and a major course correction was needed, including beginning to withdraw combat troops.

No major decisions until additional studies
Asked at a joint news conference when the president would start to carry out recommendations for a change, Bush noted that other studies were still under way by the Pentagon, the State Department and the White House National Security Council.

He said he would make major policy decisions "after I get the reports"

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Baker did say, earlier Thursday, he believes the study "is probably the only bipartisan report he's going to get and it's extremely important that we approach this issue in a bipartisan way."

[xultar]

1. While he waits thousands will die.

[MorningGlow]

2. He needs to stop talking now.

No really. Right now. And then sit quietly and wait for the men with the handcuffs to come and escort him out.

[maddezmom]

3. BUSH: It's bad in Iraq. That help? (then his laughter)

QUESTION: Mr. President, the Iraq Study Group described the situation in Iraq as grave and deteriorating. You said that the increase in attacks is unsettling. That will convince many people that you're still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq and question your sincerity about changing course.

BUSH: It's bad in Iraq. That help?

(LAUGHTER)

QUESTION: Why did it take others to say it before you've been willing to acknowledge it to the world?

BUSH: You know, in all due respect, I've been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is, and I've been telling the American people how tough it is. And they know how tough it is.

And the fundamental question is: Do we have a plan to achieve our objective? Are we willing to change as the enemy has changed?

And what the Baker-Hamilton study has done is it shows good ideas as to how to go forward. What our Pentagon is doing is figuring out ways to go forward -- all aiming to achieve our objective.

Make no mistake about it: I understand how tough it is, sir.

BUSH: I talk to the families who die. I understand there's sectarian violence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120700836.html

[dajoki]

5. So he understands how tough it is?

Does he understand how tough it is listening to his constant line of Bullshit?

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. He talks to families that dies???

Maybe he is what some of the fundies claim him to be, the second son of God!

[kenny blankenship]

9. Heard through a White House pantry door:

"I and others have come to believe that your heart is not in this, Mr. Bush, that you haven't the belly for it"

Just give me one more chance to prove it, Mr. Grady...There is nothing I look forward to with greater pleasure.

[Vickers]

4. Waiting for more reports? I thought he was the Big Deciderer?

:wtf:

[cassiepriam]

6. Translation: He will change nothing, is just stalling and pretending. nt

[marew]

10. Absolutely right and it makes me sick.

He is an absolute, textbook sociopath. Did you hear on Randi Rhodes yesterday that when Bush was gov. of Texas and a daughter was having an emergency appendectomy, he left the state to visit family in FL? When asked about staying with his daughter through the surgery, he replied something very similar that he was more interested in her getting home and cleaning her room. Can't get more hardcore than that.

[cassiepriam]

11. Yes there is little doubt about his mental illness at this point. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Will this pesky war interfere with this Christmas party schedule?

I'll bet not.