Bush Ignores His Own Advice on Timetables
By on Dec 18th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
Bush Ignores His Own Advice on Timetables
At the outset of his speech tonight, Bush said, “I know many Americans have questions about the cost and direction of this war.”
But the President failed to answer the question that is foremost on the minds of most Americans — when are the troops coming home? Instead, he said the following:
I will make decisions on troop levels based on the progress we see on the ground and the advice of our military leaders – not based on artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.
Bush has failed to follow his own advice from 1999:
I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn. [6/5/99]
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Bush was a lot smarter before he became president
December 18th, 2005 at 9:25 pmask him a really
hard question
like,
what was your
video golf score?
Or How many
Crooks can one Administration Hold?
Or
Is this What you learned at Business School?
What does ‘above the board’, and ‘by far’, Mean to George?
December 18th, 2005 at 9:26 pmMore dbl-bkwrd Oxford Germanic Russian doll Games?
Or is it Kangaroo to day?
Or just the straight faced lie?
The troops aren’t coming home until Bubble boy is impeached.
There is way too much oil to be had in Iraq.
P.S. Thinkprogress has been very busy today, good job.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:28 pmOnce again, in his speech, Bush failed to say anything. All he did was blame – this time Saddam for choosing to start this war. What with those invisible WMDs? With a direct attack on Americans? With deploying troops to Delware?
December 18th, 2005 at 9:29 pm“I know many Americans have questions about the cost and direction of this war.â€
–GWB
wE know WHERE THE money went George.
What is it about thIS ‘educATED’ Moron and their\his Money?
December 18th, 2005 at 9:30 pmOnce again BUSH puts Money before the Lives of the Soldiers??
I have question about the direction of your MIND George..
Have you LOST it?
KING? George?
Bush isn’t going to answer this question because he won’t verify what more and more people know — that we’re in Iraq for the remainder of his presidency and, if he had his way, for another generation or more after that.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:30 pmhttp://www.fas.org/irp/congress/index.html
for Watching the PORKERz
December 18th, 2005 at 9:31 pmI find it interesting that MSNBC chose to have Keith Olberman cover the speech. In stead of say, Mathews. Could it be that MSNBC is just as tired of the bullshit as we are and decided to use the one anchor they have that won’t drip over every word Bush say’s? Bravo MSNBC
December 18th, 2005 at 9:33 pmThere’s an 18 year old senior in my first period class who went through Army boot camp last summer. When he graduates in May, I have little doubt that he will be shipped to Iraq. He’s a sweet, responsible, caring kid. He wants to serve his country for all the right reasons. But, instead he will be sent to fight in a pre-emptive war based on faulty ‘intelligence’. How that falls a distance second to his need to ‘keep his word’ – whatever nonsense that means – genuinely makes me angry and most of all disgusted. Tomorrow, we all need to write to our Representatives. And keep writing until we see action.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:35 pmI think the corporate networks are feeling the pinch.$$$
December 18th, 2005 at 9:37 pmthis blogger hasnt watched the “Corpo-MSM” for a while.
Sattelite Images (NOAA for Weather)
Other sites for news..
CNN, ABC, FAUX
are all Hurtin
And when the MOULDY Yale
society LOSES
its echo chamber
they will
try to stifle
Internet, as they
ARE now.
Hey unbelievable,
You said the magic word. pre-emptive war .
Let me take this out for a quick ride.
Lets say I am walking down the street, in any state in the country. And lets say I see someone, maybe it’s someone I know. And lets say this person has threatened me in the past, maybe even threatened to kill me.
Now I see him walking down the street, on the opposite side of the street from me.
I think that he may hit me, or hurt me someday, so I cross the street, walk up to him and punch him right in the mouth.
Now when the police arrive, and I tell them that I just launched a pre-emptive strike, what do you think they’re gonna to do me?
December 18th, 2005 at 9:43 pmQuestion,
Why are the laws that 300 Million of us have to live by good enough for us, but not for him?
December 18th, 2005 at 9:45 pmBut, instead he will be sent to fight in a pre-emptive war based on faulty ‘intelligence’. How that falls a distance second to his need to ‘keep his word’ – whatever nonsense that means – genuinely makes me angry and most of all disgusted. Tomorrow, we all need to write to our Representatives. And keep writing until we see action.
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its more than Just faulty intelligence
Empire Building..
history shows us now
thru NSA
and FOIA
releases
that
Pearl Harbor
Was Allowed
Gulf of Tonkin
was Fomented
WW2 was Financed by INTL Bankers
First Gulf, SLANT drilling Equip to Kuwait
Stole Saddams Oil
Galspie said “No Position”
Saddam Said ‘I attacK’
Bush Sr. Said “War”
Bush Sr Said ‘No baghdad’
Wolfowitz cried
Bush SR
Signed PAPER
to Pay
for Propaganda
IRAQ WAR Hired
Students
to Pose
as Saddam
on Radio
Make threats
Rendon
group
Now BushJr
Says
Saddam
or Not
WMD
or
NOT
The Iraq War
was
still
gonna
Happen.
due
to the
continue
presence
and
COST
of overflights
meanwhile
Robertson
Falwell
saw
were
impressed
by the
Radical
Right
and
saw
morals
thru
laws
of
course
the kook
S
are amoral.
PNAC
Cheney
Continued
made plans
So did rummy
Kristol
cheerleader
kooks AEI
in
State Dept.
and
World
Bank.
Our Elected ADDAMS Family.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:47 pmBob, whatever that is, it really takes up a lot of space, and helps distract from the ebb and flow. Maybe some formatting? Just a thought:D
December 18th, 2005 at 10:08 pmWORFEUS predicts that Iraq will become 3 states.
1 Sunni, 1 Shite, and one Democratic.
The democratic state, will be protected and defended by US forces.
The other two will be on their own.
From the Quatrains of WORFEUS 8:34
December 18th, 2005 at 10:13 pmOne of the arguments that BushCo has made of late, and made again tonight was that wars cannot be executed according to a timetable… I’m just glad FDR and Eisenhower didn’t know that or we’d all still be waiting for D Day.
December 18th, 2005 at 10:14 pmBubble Boy was really saying this:
“Are American soldiers are sacrificing their lives for us. And because they’re dying for us, our Iraqi friends (the western-learned version)and for Halliburton, we consider them heroes. Even if they die from friendly fire, they are still heroes.”
“We don’t have a plan yet to bring our heroes home yet, but when we do, we will plan to let you know when we will think about bringing them back home as long as I’m God, I mean President.”
That’s what Bubble Boy is thinking. No wonder more of our soldiers will die.
December 18th, 2005 at 10:23 pmWhy does Faiz support Clinton’s wars of aggression in Kosovo, and presumably in bosnia, since those countries posed no security threat to the US whatsoever, had no WMD, and were not an “imminent threat.”
Democrats prove again they have no standards.
December 18th, 2005 at 11:21 pmHow that falls a distance second to his need to ‘keep his word’ – whatever nonsense that means – genuinely makes me angry and most of all disgusted.
What do you suggest he do? Are you suggesting he go to Canada or the like?
December 19th, 2005 at 9:33 amRyan, maybe you should post all of your Republican anti-war quotes here as well?
December 19th, 2005 at 4:35 pm#21
How that falls a distance second to his need to ‘keep his word’ – whatever nonsense that means – genuinely makes me angry and most of all disgusted.
What do you suggest he do? Are you suggesting he go to Canada or the like?
Comment by Giacomo — December 19, 2005 @ 9:33 am
Giacomo, do you know anyone who is or has been on the front lines in this war?
December 19th, 2005 at 4:36 pmWhat do you suggest he do? Are you suggesting he go to Canada or the like?
Comment by Giacomo — December 19, 2005 @ 9:33 am
What do you suggest he do? Go die or be maimed in Iraq because of “faulty intelligence”?
December 19th, 2005 at 4:52 pmI have an idea. Let’s get Barb and Jenna in uniform and shipped to the front lines in Iraq. Let’s see then how fast the war winds down then.
December 19th, 2005 at 6:04 pm#26
I signed a petition last month or two that urged exactly that. Not just the twins, but all of the Representatives kids. Only one is actually serving. But it’s still a great idea, and a great point – thanks for mentioning it.
December 19th, 2005 at 6:09 pmThe only thing consistent with Republicans is their hypocrisy.
“You can support the troops but not the president”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
“My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they’re made … not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do.”
-Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
For us to call this a victory and to commend the President of the United States as the Commander in Chief showing great leadership in Operation Allied Force is a farce”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
December 19th, 2005 at 7:19 pmRepublicans Nazis like wwallace licked their lips at genocide, and preferred to do nothing, yet they’ll fabricate a case for war as long as there’s oil to be had…
Republicans are unamerican, and inhumane. They’re retarded monkies unworthy of citizenship!
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