Bush to receive Iraq bill on ‘Mission Accomplished’ day.
By on Apr 27th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Bush to receive Iraq bill on ‘Mission Accomplished’ day.
CNN has confirmed that Congress’ Iraq withdrawal legislation will be delivered to President Bush on Tuesday, making it highly likely that Bush will veto the bill on the four year anniversary of his infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech:
DANA BASH: They now plan to send this bill to the White House on Tuesday. Not only that, they are considering, Democrats are considering holding a ceremony to send this bill off. The idea there: shining the spotlight one more time on Democrats before that veto, to make the case, just like they did today, that from Democrats’ perspective, the President is ignoring public opinion against his Iraq strategy.
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At least Bush admits that the country is against his Iraq policy. That’s step one in his recovery.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:45 pmShe’s looking more and more like Ann Coulter every day.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pmRubbing four years of failure into Chimpy’s face. Expect a petulant response from our cowardly president.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pmPut on the pressure. Dont let Osama win.
tellusthemission.org
April 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pmDubya is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a flashlight.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pmTotally appropriate to make this draft-dodging AWOL reservist who enjoys dressing up in uniforms (and putting himself on sports cards) to only make a pure unadulterated ass of himself eat crow! Mission accomplished my foot! The ONLY MISSION ACCOMPLISHED when this fraud stood on the carrier was the military coup to personally gain control of Iraqi oil by Haliburton….and the war profiteering the Bush Crime Family will enjoy as a result of a protracted mess which was a debacle from the start.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:49 pmHonestly this is all one big fat waste of time! All of it, everything just a waste.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:49 pmYeah….tell us the “mission”, dumbya! As in “mission accomplished”….you never had a mission and still don’t have one. What a sorry excuse for a leader. Is it me or is he aging one year for each day he continues to lie – just like the Pinnochio syndrome??
April 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pmHe’s looking more exhausted, wrinkled, and uglier by the day.
How appropriate, mission accomplished, he just didn’t say what year.
Hating the Repuke Mafia daily
April 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pmI hope those dems don’t knuckle under with this schoolyard bully telling them that he’s going to veto this bill and any one with a timeline. Stick to your guns, Dems…the american people back you thoroughly.
Send the same bill back repeatedly ad nauseum until it’s clear that Bush himself is THE one keeping money from the military.
This is The Decider’s Mess and he needs to Own it fully.
Way to go dems….hold the line on this one….the american people are counting on you to stand up to this dictator who believes it’s “his way or the highway”.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pmCouldn’t have happened to a nicer wanna be dictator.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:54 pmThis is going to be so great because when the MSM reports that the Iraq withdrawal legislation is delivered to President Bush on Tuesday they’ll also have to mention that it’s the 4th anniversary of “Mission Accomplished.”
April 27th, 2007 at 7:55 pm” Bush on Iraq: That was Then…
Why War with Iraq?
“No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th.”
President Bush, September 17, 2004.
“I would tell them [families of fallen soldiers] the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war against those who caused the deaths on 9/11 is necessary.”
President Bush, October 22, 2004.
“We went to war [in Iraq] because we were attacked.”
President Bush, June 18, 2005.
Was There An Al Qaeda Link?
“It [Iraq] has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.”
President Bush, March 17, 2003.
“The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We’ve removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding.”
President Bush, May 1, 2003.
“No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th.”
President Bush, September 17, 2004.
Have We Prevailed?
“Mission Accomplished.”
President Bush’s Backdrop, May 1, 2003.
“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
President Bush, May 1, 2003.
“This mission isn’t easy, and it will not be accomplished overnight.”
April 27th, 2007 at 7:56 pmPresident Bush, June 18, 2005.
“Dubya is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a flashlight.
Comment by kasinca”
oh yeah?
bush is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass if his hands were tied behind his back!
April 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pmCaption Contest: “Duh, I’m more than a blond bimbo, you know…”
April 27th, 2007 at 8:05 pmThat has a nice ring to it. Mission Accomplished day should be made a federal holiday, so that citizens of the USA never forget how close they came to have a dictator take over the country.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pmAnd what does the IDIOT say in response?
“And if the Congress wants to test my will as to whether or not I’ll accept the timetable for withdrawal, I won’t accept one,” he told a news conference at his retreat in Camp David, Maryland, alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_to_Democrats_do_not_test_my_wi_04272007.html
And people wonder why HE is HATED around the world and by 80% of his own country…
April 27th, 2007 at 8:11 pmLogically if the “mission” was “accomplished” already then we “won” the “war” and “pulling out” in October 2007 isn’t “surrender”! So hey there’s no “issue”, right? George could save face by not vetoing and everybody “wins”. BUT…of course in George’s logic THAT won’t happen…
April 27th, 2007 at 8:12 pmBush is hoping that the toppled statue of Saddam Hussein will be replaced with a statue of himself…Bible in hand, looking up at the sky, receiving orders from God to kill.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:14 pmIraqVet,
We can now call the the 22%ers. That is the number of Americans that support the war at this point. Can it get any lower before he is impeached? Why don’t the republicans ask him to leave like they did with Nixon. He is a detriment to their party at this point.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:14 pmBTW Geo. seems to suffer from narcissistic arrested development…expect more tantrums.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:15 pmRemember that during the ‘04 election, Tommy Franks fell the sword for Bush about the mission accomplished photo scam.
He said that it was a ruse on our european allies. The ideal was to make them think that all the hard work was done so that they would join the ‘coalition’. Franks said that the ruse plan was his idea.
Every thing the IncompetentCorruptAmericanPrince touches, he corrupts to the core and discards.
Any body seen Chistie Todd Whitman, latey
April 27th, 2007 at 8:16 pmWhitman like in EPA? What has she done now?
April 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pmAfter what Tenet and Durbin have revealed…
…Bushiva should be arrested…
…this country is so corrupt…
…it’s GOING to take the second coming…
…to cleanse it…
April 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pmWhat if he actually signs it but adds one of his ’signing statements’ to omit the with drawl of troops? It would be just like that sleaze bag…
April 27th, 2007 at 8:32 pm‘Mission Accomplished’ day – is he going to dress up in that flight suit again and parade around with that cod piece? Freak!
When the chimp in chief svetoes this bill on Mission Accomplished Day, the headlines will read, “Bush Vetoes Funds for the Troops.”
Chickenshit chickenhawk.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:37 pmJust send the bill up without making a circus out of it!
Treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
Make the idiot prince veto it and then withhold the money. They will have to end the operation and America will stand behind the Dems.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:37 pmYour correct big papa and I don’t believe in the second coming…LOL…Heck I don’t believe in the first aside from him being a good teacher like Buddah, Gandi and several other’s….Oh well! I won’t be here to see it anyway….Blessings
April 27th, 2007 at 8:37 pmThe fate of our soldiers is being played with over politics and the preservation of Bush’s vanity.
This is why Bush is HATED by so many.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:41 pmComment by Marie #26
Marie,
With this hopelessly complicit media…
…the headlines are more likely to read…
…”Democrats Refuse to Give Troops Funding: Without Terms for Surrender”…
…the people have GOT TO punish these TRAITORS in the media AND WH…
April 27th, 2007 at 8:46 pm30 – big papa
You are so right about the media – it should be very interesting to see just how the US neocon right wing corporate owned biased media displays the story to others. Probably much different from Britain’s BBC.com or Canada’s Toronto Star.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pmbig papa, did you see the Moyers’ special last night. Scathing indictment of the media.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pmRussert was particularly irritating to me.
Journalism is moribund. Two young guys from Knight ridder made an heroic effort to learn the truth, but they were overshadowed by the big guns of the WaPo, NYT, ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN, and the ever-favorite FOX.
I want a nice big ceremony. Ram it home. Ram it in McConnel’s mousy face.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pmNow, can we get something on the Articles of Impeachment filed against Dick Cheney?
How can impeachment gain traction if progressive websites such as this ignore it like the plague. I mean, what about all the Impeachment events planned for tomorrow?
Has ThinkProgress pulled Impeachment off the table as well?
April 27th, 2007 at 8:59 pm“Dubya is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a flashlight.
Comment by kasincaâ€
oh yeah?
bush is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass if his hands were tied behind his back!
Comment by bob (not the hacker) —
oh yeah?
bush is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass….aaa….even if his head was stuck up his ass! yea!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:01 pmBnF
April 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pmTomorrow is Impeachment Day.
I have had a new bumper sticker on my car for a week, and tomorrow I intend to drive a number of miles to some friends’ house just to advertise it a bit more.
Impeach.
Impeach.
Impeach.
35 Oh yeah?
Oh yeah? yeah?
His head is so far up his arse he can see out his mouth!!! heh heh
Eww but treww!
Our country has truly been hijacked.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:06 pmWe can now call the the 22%ers.
– Spudge_Boy
Now those are Nixon numbers.
And Pelosi still won’t let impeachment go foreward.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:07 pmFrankly, We need to replace her next time she is up for re-election, imho.
Not impeaching when he has commited crimes is the same is being complicit with those crimes as far as I am concerned
Marie, I know. And you’d think a “progressive” website would be more involved in something like this.
If Bush, Cheney, et. al. get a free pass on all that they have done, yet a President can get impeached for lying about extra-marital sex, then we no longer have accountability in government, we have govertainment.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:07 pmHas ThinkProgress pulled Impeachment off the table as well?
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Yeah, not a peep from TP
April 27th, 2007 at 9:08 pmGovertainment–like in faux news? Hmmm…the plot thickens.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:09 pmImpeach!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:10 pmI want to see wall-to-wall coverage by the MSM on this. I want a camera to follow the person delivering this to Dubya. All the while, with the utterly vile Dubya standing in front of that ridiculous “Mission Accomplished” banner. Wall-to-wall coverage.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:10 pmYeah, TP!
Why is there ZERO info on the Impeachment Movement?
And WHY do I have to keep asking you to fix the formatting keys??????
…Oh, that’s right. It’s Hillary’s (yack!) site.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:17 pmBush won’t be impeached until the case is so strong that the Republicans decide it is necessary.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:18 pmYep! BnF and Wayne, I mentioned it earlier on another thread….Time to make every one accountable….Let’s have it TP, time to prove how progressive the sight realy is…….Blessings
April 27th, 2007 at 9:19 pmComment by goehl #30
Comment by Marie #32
Marie and goehl,
Bill Moyers was one of the last remaining REAL journalists…
…driven out by the TREASONOUS Bushite junta’s right wing takeover at PBS…
…just like Ted Turner was squeezed out by Time-Warner…
…the media is now the propaganda arm of the CRIMINAL Bushite junta’s…
…corporate constituency (this includes the RNC and DLC)…
…the people are being brainwashed by a corrupt fascist plutocratic..
…mind control machine…
…until We the People take back our airwaves and hold the corporate media big wigs accountable…
… (make THEM pay forthe war along with Bushiva, PNAC et al.)…
…we are DOOMED to “Groundhog Day” in DUHmerica…
…til we go BANKRUPT…
…and Bushiva, L’il Dick and their co-conspirators RELOCATE to Dubai and Paraguay…
April 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pmWayne, Marie, BnF,
I agree with you all. TP is being very cowardly regarding impeachment. I thought this was a site for moving forward, progressives. How can we do this with corruption/lies at the head of the beast? I say cut off the beast’s head! Impeach!!!
P.S. Go Kucinich!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pmIf that’s the way it plays out, Republicans can and will claim the moral high ground for cleaning house of one (or more) of their own.
And, you know what? If the Republicans do trump the Democrats on this, they’ll probably stay in power. Let’s face it, if the goal is for the Party to stay in power, sacrificing Bush & Co. is a small price to pay. And Rove is Machiavellian enough to realize this.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pmbig papa,
April 27th, 2007 at 9:34 pmI have written countless times to the FCC (Adelstein and Copps) in fact, they were actually replying to my Emails, but they were barely keeping afloat with the repugnican leadership at the FCC.
The consolidation of media has had a devastating, terrible effect on the news available to the American public.
As for Moyers, when he was forced out by Tomlinson, I promptly wrote to my local PBS and told them I was not donating to them any longer until he was gone. That was about two years ago. They wrote back to persuade me to change my mind. Now that Tomlinson is finally out of there, Moyers is back and that’s a good thing for us. When I sent in my donation, I was sure to tell them why.
We must take back the media from their control. We need fairness. We demand it.
#49 I don’t think it will keep them in power. It will just limit their losses in 2008 and shorten the time it takes them to rebuild.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:48 pm“Dubya is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a flashlight.
Comment by kasincaâ€
oh yeah?
bush is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass if his hands were tied behind his back!
Comment by bob (not the hacker) —
oh yeah?
bush is so dumb he couldn’t find his ass….aaa….even if his head was stuck up his ass! yea!
Comment by JTitor — April 27, 2007 @ 9:01 pm
Oh yeah? yeah?
His head is so far up his arse he can see out his mouth!!! heh heh
Eww but treww!
Our country has truly been hijacked.
Comment by radzikowski
i’d try for one more, but your last comment about our country is too true to clown about. we really have been hijacked by halfwit fascists.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:02 pmOur country has truly been hijacked.
Comment by radzikowski
i’d try for one more, but your last comment about our country is too true to clown about. we really have been hijacked by halfwit fascists.
Comment by bob (not the hacker)
And if we do not hold them accountable to the laws they have broken, mark my words, they will be back in the whitehouse in 8 -12 years, doing it all over again.
Bush wont’ but Bushco will.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:23 pmI hope those dems don’t knuckle under with this schoolyard bully telling them that he’s going to veto this bill and any one with a timeline. Stick to your guns, Dems…the american people back you thoroughly.
Send the same bill back repeatedly ad nauseum until it’s clear that Bush himself is THE one keeping money from the military.
This is The Decider’s Mess and he needs to Own it fully.
Way to go dems….hold the line on this one….the american people are counting on you to stand up to this dictator who believes it’s “his way or the highwayâ€.
Comment by veritas — April 27, 2007 @ 7:53 pm
Too late, I’m afraid. Just read an AP-sourced article about the bill, and apparently the Dems already have another version of the funding bill ready to go…one that leaves out any reference to a withdrawal.
Damn. If this is the case, then why even bother with sending the first bill? It’s pretty much a given that they cannot override the veto. Yeah, I know they are wanting to “take a stand” and “make a statement,” but damn (DAMN!)…they’ve got the support of the American people on this.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pmDemocratic politicians as always playing politics with our troops. You libeals always cry about President Bush not listening to the generals. It looks more and more that it is the Democratic Politicians who are the ones not listening to the generals
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/04/report_from_iraq_1.html
It is also well known that the Mission Accomplished sign and the landing on the aircraft carrier was a signal for our supposed allies, like France, Russia, etc to know that major combat against SADDAM HUSSEIN was over and that the help they promised could be sent. Leave it to the ill informed liberals to twist the facts. read and educate yourself liberals. So much for thinkprogress.org being honest with you guys.
here liberals, read it and learn what thinkprogress.org doesn’t want you to learn and know.
“After commanding the operation that toppled Saddam Hussein, Gen. Tommy Franks suggested that President Bush publicly mark an end to major combat in Iraq – an idea that led to the president’s politically controversial appearance aboard an aircraft carrier.
Bush’s announcement, under a banner that read “Mission Accomplished,†took place just six weeks after the start of the war, generating harsh criticism as being a premature celebration and political grandstanding.
Franks, who retired a year ago, said he thought a public announcement would send a green light to countries that had balked at joining combat operations but had expressed willingness to join efforts to rebuild Iraq.
“That was not so everyone could have a victory lap,†Franks said in a telephone interview Monday. “We’d been given to believe that once major hostilities were over, we would have lots and lots more help from the international community.â€
Franks spoke to newspaper reporters in a conference call to promote his book, “American Soldier.†The 590-page book, published by Regan Books, goes on sale Tuesday.”
April 27th, 2007 at 11:02 pmWC,
sorry, they don’t have the support of the American people on this. Pelosi’s approval rating is at a mere 30% and Reid’s is at a 22%. Combined they are at a 26% approval rating. The leaders of the democratic party in both houses of Congress, combined, have a lower approval rating than President Bush. This doesn’t sound or look like the American people standing behind the Democratic defeat attitude, does it?
April 27th, 2007 at 11:04 pmPelosi’s approval rating is at a mere 30% and Reid’s is at a 22%. Combined they are at a 26% approval rating. The leaders of the democratic party in both houses of Congress, combined, have a lower approval rating than President Bush. This doesn’t sound or look like the American people standing behind the Democratic defeat attitude, does it?
Comment by valientthehater
No, what you don’t realize is people are pissed they are not drawing up impeachment papers and also forcing an end to the war in Iraq, and then devote the resources to end the Taliban and Al Queda in Afganistan, where the real culprits behind the Cole bombing and supposedly behind 9/11.
Iraq was a f*cked up action from the start, and securing the OIL Ministry in Iraq was top priority over securing the munirions dumps. Totally flawed from the git-go ( that is from combat experience ) That is the day we lost the occupation. The day we won the War.
Dumbsfeld was a disaster………
April 27th, 2007 at 11:18 pmBah…..
April 27th, 2007 at 11:21 pmmunirions = munitions
A not so accomplished Missionary.
Operation
Iraqi
Liberation
Don’t pull out! Feel the surge! Oh wait, that’s what Tobias was doing while preaching absence. Or something like that. Whatever. So many scandals, how’s a person to keep up?
April 27th, 2007 at 11:25 pm#55 TRAITOR Bush DIDN’T listen to his GENERALS who told him “leave”
He FIRED them and replaced them with AZZ-LICKERS like YOU.
Nor is he listening the AMERICAN PEOPLE, who know he is a LIAR, TRAITOR, and MURDERER.
See you in hell venereal (cause I’LL be THERE),
Mr. Bush
April 27th, 2007 at 11:26 pmMURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo)
From my blogosphere:
One can only speculate what types of photo-ops the President is planning to celebrate this momentous occasion on which he decides the United States would rather cut funding to an unending quagmire than support the troops to reaching a definable goal. Here are some ideas:
* Pretending to land on an aircraft carrier again, but sending a collection jar around the audience of sailors and marines asking for gas money, since there won’t be any money for operations. Jet fuel ain’t cheap, ya know!
* Deliver his speech in front of an audience of deploying soldiers at a body armor manufacturing plant. I think it would be nice for the troops to at least see what body armor looks like, even though they won’t be getting any.
* Scowlingly surveying the devastation at Walter Reed from Air Force One, circling safely overhead at 3,500 feet.
* Rose Garden press conference, no seats or microphones for the press corps, big banner reading “Iraq, Schmiraq — look what’s happening in Iran! Some crazy shit, eh?”
* Attending a soldier’s funeral. There’s a first time for everything…
April 27th, 2007 at 11:28 pmI mean, what about all the Impeachment events planned for tomorrow?
Has ThinkProgress pulled Impeachment off the table as well?
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — April 27, 2007 @ 8:59 pm
Where did you hear about impeachment events. You’re right, there has been no mention here. Time to go to an actual progressive site. This is becoming a stomping ground for right wing trolls who because they get paid to be here outnumber progressives. I’d appreciate any link to impeachment events.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:32 pmDemocrats should attach a note to the funding bill, before sending it off, to inform Bush that he can sign it or go straight to Hell.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:36 pm#55 GREAT LINK–Blake Dvorak, of the MOONIE Washington Times.
WHY do you quote from MOONIE TRAITORS who are tied in with BushCrimeCo (TM)?
Oh RIGHT…..
YOU are a TRAITOR and HATE AMERICA also.
See you in hell venereal (cause I’LL be THERE),
April 27th, 2007 at 11:39 pmMr. Bush
MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo)
“Pelosi’s approval rating is at a mere 30% and Reid’s is at a 22%. Combined they are at a 26% approval rating.”
For the sake of……. AAARRRRRGHHHHH. You CANNOT simply combine these numbers to come up with ANY meaningful number. If you don’t understand this then PLEASE READ UP ABOUT STATISTICS AND THEIR MEANING.
That is just a sad commentary on what is lacking in “The First World”. Sad….. So Sad.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:57 pmHere’s where anyone can go to discuss Impeachment Events: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kucinich_Impeachment_may_well_be_only_0315.html
April 28th, 2007 at 12:00 am“Democratic politicians as always playing politics with our troops. You libeals”
I don’t know about the libeals, but if the Franks story is true all it does is give evidence that Bush is a stooge being advised by another stooge. Great way to run foreign policy.
BTW, the buck stops with the Prez, no? Isn’t Bush responsible for
Oh, I forgot, there’s no sense of responsibility with unethical Wrong Wing.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:00 amTuesday’s anniversary is a very appropriate day for Bush to be presented with a bill that he vetos, thus declaring – “MISSION NO WHERE NEAR TO BEING ACCOMPLISHED, AND PROBABLY NEVER TO BE ACCOMPLISHED”.
He has no real reason to veto the bill of course, except for his hurt pride and stubborness. THe Congress has given him everything he wants for funding and has provided a nonbinding timeline.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:24 amI read it was BINDING.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:54 amValianttheherpe your completely and utterly retarded….. quote me those polls (of american OR iraqi citizens) that show that a majority think we should stay in iraq? Oh, and Cheney’s approval rating is lower than ANYONES… by your logic, that shows people aren’t buying his “we have to stay forever or they will swim over here” logic, right? how else do you explain his ratings lower than the 2 people you mentioned? by your logic, a politicians ratings must correlate with thier position on iraq, right?
April 28th, 2007 at 1:15 amhaha Valianttheherpe, you are basically defending the “mission accomplished” banner by saying we needed it to get help from EUROPEANS? hahahahah. wow, I can’t beleive you’d admit one of your hero generals claimed we needed help from “old europe”…hahahaah.
are you mister “america can do anything” by itself? we have to trick the frenchies into joiining with a banner? hahahaha.
oh yeah… and a large majority of the command and control and financier elements of the people we are fighting ARE remnants of Saddam’s Baathist regime, even if they arent Saddam loyalists. so major combat operations against his boys hadnt ended either. then theres also the shia we are fighting too…they’ve killed a good amount of our people, even though they are supposedly the good guys…
April 28th, 2007 at 1:20 amWhat better day for Bush to issue his second veto? Or issue his millionth signing statement.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:27 amWhere’s Osama? Living comfortably in Pakistan —>FAILURE
How many marines in Pakistan hunting him down? None. How many armed drones, combat helicopters, special forces recon units chasing him through the border regions? None—>FAILURE
alQaeda on the ropes? No, decentralized and dispersed across the globe—>FAILURE
How’s things in Afghanistan? Opium crop never better; hashish production is sky high. Territory held by U.S./ NATO forces: shrinking every day. Territory held by Taliban/ al Qaeda: growing every day—>FAILURE
Deaths of U.S/ NATO forces in Afghanistan: growing—>FAILURE
WMD in Iraq? Still not there—>FAILURE
Ties to al Qaeda? No evidence whatsoever—>FAILURE
Nuclear program? Nope, none found—>FAILURE
Any sign of combat operations ending FOUR YEARS AFTER VICTORY WAS DECLARED? No, not just yet—>FAILURE
American casualties declining? No, keep going up—>FAILURE
Iraqi casualties tapering off? YES! that is of course if you don’t count the car bombings which tear thousands of women and children to pieces each month—>FAILURE
Democratic government formed in Iraq? Nope, just a theocratic Shiite majority aligned with Iran—>FAILURE
Invasion and occupation paid for itself as predicted by neocon experts? Nope, hundreds of billions of dollars of crushing debt added to the national deficit—>FAILURE
Record of neocons and republican lackeys since seizing power? FAILURE, FAILURE, FAILURE, FAILURE.
You’re kicking ass, Harry. Keep it up.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:36 amthe invasion of Iraq, was a fraud. We know that now. Even though there was no threat whatever to the United States from Iraq, the decision was made by Richard Cheney in consultation with his junior associate, George W. Bush, to invade and occupy Iraq, a country which had been decimated by an economic embargo and whose army had been cut by two-thirds since 1991. Once the predatory decision had been made, it was necessary to fabricate a plausible justification for it, to “fix the intelligence around the policyâ€, to use the British phraseology. This required months of a carefully calibrated propaganda campaign to misinform the American public and pressure the U.S. Congress and Senate for the authorization to attack. At the UN in the Security Council, a similar mendacious strategy was underway. At the same time, the White House was suggesting that it did not actually need authorization from the Congress or the UN to initiate hostilities. Why not? Because G.W. Bush is POTUS 43, the commander-in-chief, and as such he can do as he pleases when it comes to national security affairs.
THIS MAKES CHENEY A MURDERING COWARD WHO ATTACKS WEAK COUNTRIES WHICH MAKES AMERICA LOOK BAD AND WILL CONITINUE TO DO SO. IF BUSH AND CHENEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY SO MUCH THEY SHOULD BE WILLING TO GOTO JAIL FOR THERE BELEIVES OTHERWISE ITS WAS A BULLIES WAY OF INVASION AND AMERICA WILL LOSE FACE FOREVER
April 28th, 2007 at 7:45 am#56 – Where did those poll numbers come from?
Here’s a poll for ya…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) drew relatively high approval ratings as they passed their 100-day mark as leaders of their chambers, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Pelosi had a job approval rating of 53 percent, according to the nationwide survey of 1,141 adults. That’s about where she was in January just after becoming speaker.
Reid came away with 46 percent approving of his leadership of the Senate and 33 percent disapproving.
The poll was conducted last Thursday through Sunday and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041701768.html
Ummmm…I think you need to revise your numbers…Maybe BUSH provided you with them?
April 28th, 2007 at 7:53 amThe only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS WITH SO MUCH ANTI AMERICAN MESSAGES
can we be wrong or are we right ?????
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2067493,00.html
April 28th, 2007 at 8:20 amWhen the Soviet Union existed there was always some constraint on the behaviour of the U.S. Now that the Soviets are no longer much involved in the global games that nations play the U.S. has been free to use its economic and military force to wage war directly or by proxy as it sees fit. As the main node in the military troika of the U.S./Israel/UK it can summon up any of its client states to do its bidding–regardless of the potential destruction to life, limb and property.
Rotting corpses in the street–fed on by stray dogs. What’s a little collateral damage in the absolutely “war on terrorism”.
We live in very interesting times–because this could be the first time in 1000 years that a single power could create so much havoc with impunity as it sees fit. Of course, the “Save Darfur” fellow-travellers will be myopic about Mogadishu.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:30 amRead an article today on news.aol.com about George Tenet’s new book coming out. Several excerpts I’d like to point out:
Mr. Tenet expresses puzzlement that, since 2001, Al Qaeda has not sent “suicide bombers to cause chaos in a half-dozen American shopping malls on any given day.”
Mr. Tenet is obviously not in agreement with Mr. Bush’s assertion that “we are fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here.”
The book recounts C.I.A. efforts to fight Al Qaeda in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, and Mr. Tenet’s early warnings about Osama bin Laden. He contends that the urgent appeals of the C.I.A. on terrorism received a lukewarm reception at the Bush White House through most of 2001.
No surprise there.
Mr. Tenet describes helping to kill a planned speech by Mr. Cheney on the eve of the invasion because its claims of links between Al Qaeda and Iraq went “way beyond what the intelligence shows.â€
Again, no surprise here either.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:40 amsorry, they don’t have the support of the American people on this. Pelosi’s approval rating is at a mere 30% and Reid’s is at a 22%. Combined they are at a 26% approval rating. The leaders of the democratic party in both houses of Congress, combined, have a lower approval rating than President Bush. This doesn’t sound or look like the American people standing behind the Democratic defeat attitude, does it?
Comment by valientthehater — April 27, 2007 @ 11:04 pm
Don’t have the support of the American people? Oh, that’s right. The majority of the American people who voted on election day in 2006 voted the Dems back into the majority, in both chambers of Congress, because they were unhappy with the economy that Bush says is so great.
The American people knew in the days and months prior to the election that the Dems would focus on ending the war and bringing our troops home, and they STILL voted for a Dem majority. This, despite the shit coming from the mouths of Bush and Cheney that a vote for a Democrat was a vote for terrorism.
Tell me…have you called your Congresspersons to tell them to leave the troops in Iraq?
As asked for earlier, I’d also like a source for your poll. Your ass doesn’t count.
I’d also like to point out that Bush himself, as well as Paul Bremer and Colin Powell, have said publicly that we’d leave Iraq if the Iraqis asked us to:
UPDATE: From the Washington Post, 5/15/04:
Secretary of State Colin Powell emphatically said yesterday that if the incoming Iraqi interim government ordered the departure of foreign troops after June 30, they would pack up without protest, but emphasized he doubted such a request would be made.
… “If the provisional government asks us to leave, we will leave,†Bremer said, referring to an Iraqi administration due to take power June 30. “I don’t think that will happen, but obviously we don’t stay in countries where we’re not welcome.â€
Filed under: Iraq
Posted by Judd November 22, 2005 10:16 am
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Bush Said He Would Withdraw U.S. Forces If The Iraqis Asked
On Monday, Iraqi political leaders called on the U.S. to set a timetable for withdrawal. In January, President Bush said that if asked by the Iraqis, U.S. forces would leave the country:
President Bush said in an interview on Thursday that he would withdraw American forces from Iraq if the new government that is elected on Sunday asked him to do so, but that he expected Iraq’s first democratically elected leaders would want the troops to remain as helpers, not as occupiers.
Bush has now been asked to withdraw. Will he stick to his word?
(Thanks to reader chill for the tip.)
Filed under:
Posted by Judd November 22, 2005 11:27
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Today, the AP reports that Iraq’s Vice President, Tariq al-Hashimi, personally asked President Bush to set a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. forces the day before. Iraq’s President, Jalal Talabani, said he supported the request:
Iraq’s vice president has asked President Bush for a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq, the Iraqi president’s office said. Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni, made the request during his meeting with Bush on Tuesday, when the U.S. president made a surprise visit to Iraq.
“I supported him in this,†President Jalal Talabani said in a statement released Wednesday. Al-Hashimi’s representatives could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
Separately, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that Iraqi security forces should be completely in charge of the nation’s security in 18 months.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/16/vp-requests-timetable/
I didn’t know that the administration harbored such a defeatest attitude. Oh wait…it is a defeatest attitude only if the Dems propose it.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:55 ammorning… having my breakfast and reading the google news…
found this as the first in line:
What Happens After Bush Vetoes the Iraq Spending Bill?
AlterNet.org By Erik Leaver | April 26, 2007
The showdown over Iraq that’s been brewing since the November elections will finally come to a head this week as Congress sends a war-spending bill to President Bush. Though the bill authorizes $100 billion for the war, Bush has rejected its October deadline for beginning the withdrawal of combat troops, with the goal of bringing combat troops home by April 2008, and has promised to use his veto—his second-ever use of this power—to kill it.
On Jan. 13, during his weekly radio address, Bush challenged those who disagreed with him to offer their own plan for Iraq. Led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Congress met Bush’s challenge to come up with an alternative policy.
But instead of seeking the dialogue he asked for in his own radio address, Bush and the Republicans went on the attack, calling the bill “defeatist” and “a cut and run” strategy. The truth is that the measure offers a change of course, not a 180-degree reversal. If Bush and Republicans can’t agree to a plan as moderate as the one passed this week, then they really do want a war with no end.
[...]
http://www.fpif.org/fpifoped/4182
* another perspective, the 2nd link:
The “Stab in the Back” Trap
by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
April 28, 2007
The Democrats and the peace movement are walking into a trap. The Republicans are preparing with Rovian cunning to focus the mind of the public on the question: Who lost Iraq?
And they are already giving the answer: The Democrats and the peace movement.
[...]
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=12689
both worth a read…
April 28th, 2007 at 9:37 amKaty, that was presaged when they brought out Kissinger to say that the Vietnam War was won until Congress started cutting the funding and ordering troop withdrawl.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:17 am#79 & 80 — Interesting articles and comments from both of you. What the Democratic Party leaders should say is “The American People, who are the ones who have lost sons and daughters want an end to this pre-emptive and unilateral war that was started by President Bush. Bush did not have the patience to let the UN Inspectors finish their unfettered inspections prior to the war. But now, he demands patience to let his “surge” work. The American People are sick of the innocent blood shed, the innocent lives lost, and not knowing what the real mission of this occupation is. It wasn’t WMD, it wasn’t regime change, it wasn’t spreading democracy. The mission keeps changing at the President’s whim. The American People are tired of their money being wasted on a mission that is not clear and keeps changing. Any action, especially a war, that is based on lies and deceit has no hope of being accomplished.” Yadda, yadda, yadda.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:06 am“Honestly this is all one big fat waste of time! All of it, everything just a waste. Comment by Saywho”
You are right Saywho, trying to save the lives of our young men and women in the military is a waste of time.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:15 pm“And Pelosi still won’t let impeachment go foreward.
Frankly, We need to replace her next time she is up for re-election, imho. Not impeaching when he has commited crimes is the same is being complicit with those crimes as far as I am concerned”
If Nancy Pelosi put impeachment on the table now, the Republics and the Media would scream “partisan politics” and accuse the Democratic party of trying to take over the government via impeachment (because the need to Impeach Bush/Chaney at the same time).
Just give it another month or so. That smoking gun is out there ready to fire. Once it does, and the American public really sees what Bush and the Republic party really are, I do believe that impeachment will be put on the table.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:20 pmI hope the Ds have a big ceremony to send up the bill to Bush. A little salt in the wound, so to speak. Small price to pay when the deaths of so many are on his blood stained hands.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:37 pmBush says that unless Congress gives him the bill he wants he will leave them in Iraq without funding. It will be the fault of Congress he says that their lack of fund ing will “put them in harm’s way.” I don’t suppose they will even get food because I doubt those Halliburton subsidiaries that feed them will serve a single meal if not guaranteed their profits. in advance.
April 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pmHow many times do our leaders say ” We don’t negotiate with hostage takers.” Congressional leaders should loudly decline to negotiate with this hostage taker. If Bush chooses to leave the troops in Iraq it is he who is the same as a terrorist holding kidnapped victims.
Congress should not negotiate. It should impeach this adminstration and liberate it’s hostages.
ValientHerpe im STILL waiting for your explanation of why your hero Dick’s near single digit approval ratings arent indicitave of a greater level of public dissapproval of his policies than the dems you mentioned..
April 29th, 2007 at 11:40 am