SOTU: Bush Stands In Isolation On Escalation Plan
SOTU: Bush Stands In Isolation On Escalation Plan
Bush said: “Many in this Chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq — because you understand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far reaching.”
FACT — LAWMAKERS, MILITARY COMMANDERS, AND EXPERTS OPPOSE ESCALATION: Sen. John Warner (R-VA), an influential conservative on military affairs, offered a resolution that opposes President Bush’s escalation plan. “Combined with near-unanimous Democratic opposition to Bush’s war policy, the Republican stands show a broad bipartisan lack of confidence in the president’s course.” Nearly seventy percent of Americans say they oppose Bush’s escalation. Top military leaders, including former Gen. Colin Powell, the current Joint Chiefs, and Gen. John Abizaid, have expressed their opposition to putting more U.S. troops on the ground. The president’s strategy goes against the recommendations of the recently-released Iraq Study Group. One Bush administration official admitted that the escalation plan is “more of a political decision than a military one.” [Seattle Times, 1/23/07; Newsweek, 1/20/07; Office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Washington Post, 1/10/07; NBC, 1/2/07; ThinkProgress, 1/3/07]
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Awe, come on, there’s got to be some suck ups left.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 pmF*ck you, you lying sack of shit.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 pmI predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 pm—Thomas Jefferson
Yes Bush is isolated, but he is the decider dictator so he does whatever he wants regardless of the consequences!
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 pmIt is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
—George Washington
It’s a good thing our founding fathers are dead. I haven’t found anything they’ve held sacred that he hasn’t raped, violated or wiped his filthy feet upon.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 pmOver grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm—George Washington
Allow me to clarify what the chymp wanted to say;
“Many in this Chamber understand that America’s president has failed in Iraq — and you are rightfully pissed, because you understand that the consequences of failure are grievous and far reaching.â€
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:46 pmDoes anyone else feel as I, that words like killers, terrorists out to destroy us, recollection of tragic events, reciting specific incidents of (supposed) terrorism that were thwarted, seem inappropriate for a SOTU speech?
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pmI guess I expect something more positive, less base, more orward looking, less dark. I’ve come to expect this style from the trigger-happy guy in the white house, but I just don’t think it belongs in the STOU.
For war and oil companies.
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm