Bush Recycles Old Ideas As “New”
Bush Recycles Old Ideas As “New”
Bush: “To further prepare Iraqi forces to fight the enemy on their own, we are taking three new steps: First, we are partnering Coalition units with Iraqi units Second, we are embedding Coalition ‘Transition Teams’ inside Iraqi units Third, we are working with the Iraqi Ministries of Interior and Defense to improve their capabilities to coordinate anti-terrorist operations.”
Fact: This Is Not New; Bush Said We Would Work With Iraqi Units Last February.
Bush: “The game plan is to stand with the Iraqis, is to train them better, is to give them a chain of command, is to work with their junior officers, so that the Iraqi units — which did very well on election day — have got what it takes to defend their own country.” [Bush, 2/4/05]
Fact: Bush Said He Would Work With Iraqi Government Before.
Bush: “But I believe that the Iraqi government’s going to be plenty capable of dealing with them, and our job is to help train them so that they can.” [Bush, 5/31/05]
Bush: “This [Iraq] is a government that’s got the ministries in place, that spends the money. We’re willing to help — and we have helped. And I want to thank the Congress and the American people for their generosity in helping Iraq rebuild. And we’re spending money.” [Bush, 6/24/05]
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Its over. I feel SO MUCH better now…
June 28th, 2005 at 8:30 pmWas Bush about to cry at the end of the speech? If he was it could an Ed Muskie moment. Please someone corroborate this with me.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:31 pmThey were new in comparison to when they planned the war pre-9/11.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:32 pmThat was sooo LAM,
Main points
“We are doing everything just right just as we intended. We will not change a thing
Trust me.”
Ya ya the check is in the mail and I won’t cum in your mouth…………..
June 28th, 2005 at 8:32 pmWon’t hurt a bit…
June 28th, 2005 at 8:34 pmTP, you guys are ROCKIN’. Up-to-the-minute refutations, sleek new design. Right On!
Oh and Bush. Buh bye.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:35 pmNPR is calling essentially BS on these 3 new steps…
June 28th, 2005 at 8:36 pmI have a headache.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:40 pmBut I did like the panels of bullet proof glass that was strategically placed around the shrub.
I guess that was worth seeing.
I feel like I’ve been scolded. Apparently, Americans are a bunch of wimps and had better buck up so our troops feel loved. They don’t get it yet. I think we DO love our troops, what we would love is a GOAL!
June 28th, 2005 at 8:43 pmErik-I agree, I thought he was about to cry also!!! Probably because he knows he’s about to be toast in the eyes of the public!!
June 28th, 2005 at 8:45 pmif you closed your eyes and imagined this was 1968 and substituted vietnamization, fighting communists there so we don’t fight them here, stay the course yadayadayada………. never thought it could happen again.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:54 pmJust heard (Terry Moran, want to say moron) that the applause was prompted by White House staffer…
June 28th, 2005 at 9:07 pmWhat Bush, nor any of the “now that we’re there. let’s win’ crowd will admit, is that few Iraqi’s are going to risk their lives so that their country can be privatized and taken over by WTO, IMF, Haliburton, and Bechtel, Exxon and Shell, with a dozen or so permanent US military bases on their soil to daily remind them of who owns the oil under their feet.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:13 pmVietnam was finally “Vietnamized”, when we got out and the NVA came in, and not a minute before. Iraq will be a mess as long as we are there, as well as after. We stay the course, not for the sake of freedom or democracy, which we have never supported anywhere in the world when it conflicted with the profits of our companies, but to solidify our hold on that part of the globe and it’s resources.
I watched the post coverage on CBS. A retired army Col. Douglas MacGreagor (not sure of the spelling) was saying that only about 5% of the insurgents are foreign. He said he fears that most of the insurgents are merely people trying to protect their homes and homes. Why isn’t more said about this? I always hear about the terrorist “flowing into Iraq” in huge numbers, but I have never heard anyone contest this before.( and yes I listen to Air America and visit “liberal” websites to get most of my news and info) I think this point really needs to be brought up more.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:31 pmI agree with you, military_husband, that the insurgents are native Iraqi people protecting their home and land from foreign invaders. If a bigger and badder country invaded us, I think we would all become insurgents against our invaders and occupiers!
June 28th, 2005 at 9:54 pmBush and his motley crew must believe that if they keep saying the same things over and over, that the American public will believe them. It’s unbelievable what this administration has gotten away with and nothing has been done to rein them in. If only Democrats can take back a majority in Congress next year, perhaps our country will once again look and feel like a democracy.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:59 pmA question why would our military train and equip 160,000 Iraq’s?
Are they crazy?
Just asking{;>>
June 28th, 2005 at 10:02 pm“Third, we are working with the Iraqi Ministries of Interior and Defense to improve their capabilities to coordinate anti-terrorist operations.â€?
“Unfor-tu-nit-ly, we have to work with them in what we call the Green Zone, see, because it is not safe for the Iraqi Ministries to leave the for-ti-fi-ca-tions. When we want to meet, we just send some trained Iraqis to the Green Zone wall and they yell “Repunzal, Repunzal, let down your hair.” Then our genrals shimmy up, see.”
June 28th, 2005 at 10:21 pmInteresting that Bush states that we’ve got “160,000 Iraqis, trained and equipped” and yet, just after his speech, on NBC, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who just got back from a 5 week tour of Iraq, said we had, maybe, 60,000 trained and equipped Iraqis. I guess the other 100,000 that Bush was talking about are all the insurgents that he helped “equip” by not having our armed forces guard all the explosives that they are now using against us….what a sod.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:42 pmUntil we train Iraqis outside of Iraq, the proposal to train Iraqis to defend their own interests is just political propaganda to deflect criticism of base building with the intentions of staying. By training outside of Iraq we enhance survival chances for trainees. Training in Iraq makes trainees very fat targets of opportunity. It gets more and more difficult to believe anything said by this administration. War on terror? Will someone explain why it takes longer to catch OBL than it did to defeat Japan AND Germany in the 40s? Goss say they know where OBL is but sovereignty issues get in the way. Whaaa? Just doesn’t make sense.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:55 pm[...] eux “mission accomplie”, prononcé il y a deux ans maintenant. Mise à jour 5 : Think Progress encore, sur les propositions de Bush. Bush: “To further prepa [...]
June 29th, 2005 at 12:00 amThe world now is recycling everything from the past, including technology and science, why don’t Bush take benefit from this recycling culture, or is he that special distinguished man not do so???
All the best to Bush and his colleagues at the “Recycling Business”
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