Bush defends policies on Iraq, Guantanamo

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-20-bush-policies_x.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire at home and abroad, President Bush on Monday defended his polices on Iraq and the war on terrorism, saying the Iraqi conflict will be won despite attempts by "cold-hearted killers" to derail the U.S.

"I think about Iraq every day. Every single day, because I understand we have troops in harm's way," the president said at a White House news conference. "We will complete the mission and the world will be better off for it."

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The Senate was scheduled to vote later Monday on whether to end Democratic delaying tactics that have blocked a final vote on Bolton's nomination. Republicans were expected to lose the vote, putting Bolton's nomination in limbo.

Asked pointblank whether he would give Bolton a recess appointment, bypassing the nomination process after Congress leaves Washington for the Fourth of July holiday recess, Bush did not answer.

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[xyboymil]

1. MSNBC: Bush "under fire" defends policy in Iraq.

Front page of website...

WASHINGTON - Under fire at home and abroad, President Bush on Monday defended his polices on Iraq and the war on terrorism, saying the Iraqi conflict will be won despite attempts by “cold-hearted killers” to derail the U.S.

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Criticism at home, abroad

Overseas, the U.S. image has been tarnished by allegations of prisoner abuse in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where suspected terrorists are being detained. Bush challenged critics, even invited journalists to the detention facilities.

“Look at all the facts. That’s all I ask people to do,” the president said at a news conference with European Union leaders. Bush noted that many of the suspects at Guantanamo are not traditional war prisoners.

“The fundamental question facing our government is what do you do with these people?” he said




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8291794/

:spank: Bout time the media started putting this on their front pages.

[Oreo]

2. If people actually did look at all the facts...

we wouldn't be in this mess and he'd be back in texas

[rainbow4321]

7. And if they saw pics like this....(***graphic****)

Maybe they would open their eyes and look past chimp ass's "everything is fine, freedom is on the march" bullshit:



An Iraqi policeman stops short of kicking the body of the alleged attacker and shouts "Pig!" in Baghdad on Sunday. A suicide bomber wearing a vest laden with explosives blew himself up Sunday inside a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 36 others.

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/06/20/WorldNation/Suicide.Bomber.Hits.Popular.Baghdad.Restaurant-958055.shtml

[dubyaD40web]

4. It's good to see this too on the front page.

I'm not getting my hopes up just yet.

[GoldenOldie]

3. Does anyone think he will change his speech's or his stance on it???

This man and his family have never accepted responsibility for their failures why would he do it now.

I don't think he takes one moment to think of those that he has placed in harms way. They only thoughts he might have of them is during photo-ops at Walter Reed, if he thinks of them at all.

[TahitiNut]

5. No, and I couldn't care less if he ever "Says 'Uncle'!"

The ridiculous notion that anything coming out of this fascist puke's pie hole is worth more than a fart in a stiff breeze is an exercise in delusion.

He belongs in a psychiatric cell of a maximum security prison for the rest of his miserable waste of a life.

[gratuitous]

6. So torturing and killing civilians IS our national policy?

I don't remember voting on that! Or were the reporters too circumspect to bring up such a matter?

[stmad]

8. Guantanamo poll

Please feel free to visit www.newsgazette.com and vote on the following poll question:

"Do you think the terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba are being mistreated?"

Thank you!

[Javaman]

9. Sure, he* can defend anything he wants

they are making it up as they go along.

[TomClash]

Bush Defends Tactics in Iraq

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Monday he thinks about Iraq "every day because I understand we have kids in harm's way," yet he is determined to complete the mission there. He defended U.S. tactics in Iraq and at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
At a joint news conference with European leaders, Bush said relations frayed by the war in Iraq were on the mend.

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"I want those families to know: One, we're not going to leave them - not going to allow their mission to go in vain. And two, we will complete the mission, and the world will be better off for it," Bush said.

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On Iraq, Bush said he would not bow to "cold-blooded killers that will kill Americans or kill innocent Iraqis in order to try to drive us out of Iraq."

"I think about Iraq every day. Every single day, because I understand we have kids in harm's way," the president said. "And I worry about their families; and I obviously, any time there's a death, I grieve."

But, Bush said, "We're making progress." He said he had spoken earlier in the day with Gen. John Abizaid, the American military commander in the Persian Gulf region.

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Bush spoke on a day when a suicide car bomber killed at least 15 traffic police and wounded about 100 more outside the unit's headquarters in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil.

Iraq's insurgency appeared unfazed by two massive U.S.-Iraqi military offensives against militant networks near the Syrian border and north of Baghdad.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB012I67AE.html

[Brundle_Fly]

10. so will he bow to the 82

MP's in Iraq that want the US out?

[FloridaPat]

11. What is our mission? Just a puppet democratic gov't and oil well sales?

Anything else? Besides taking all the money out of the US treasury.

[mod mom]

12. You mean there were "tactics" and here we thought they have been winging

it.

[NNN0LHI]

13. Under fire, Bush acknowledges tough going in Iraq

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20549224.htm

WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday the Iraq war was "tough" going but refused to back down from assertions that progress was being made despite Republican complaints about the administration's rosy optimism.

Bush's approval ratings have fallen to the lowest levels of his presidency in part because of growing pessimism about Iraq. Some prominent Republicans have openly questioned whether the administration's upbeat statements match events on the ground.

Asked if he agreed with Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the insurgency was in its "last throes," Bush replied that he understood "how dangerous it is there," adding: "I think about Iraq every day, every single day.

"And the report from the field is that while it's tough, more and more Iraqis are becoming battle-hardened and trained to defend themselves. And that's exactly the strategy that's going to work. And we will, we will complete this mission," Bush told a joint news conference with European Union leaders.

[malaise]

14. What war?

there was an illegal invasion. I'm sick of Bush lies.

[lovuian]

15. I thought Mission was Accomplished??? Now its Tough!!!

over 1700 dead and tens of thousands wounded and a Military in shatters .... kinda does put a different perspective on things!!!

[Trillo]

16. I read this:

more and more Iraqis are becoming battle-hardened

and see in it a glimmer of truth completely at odds with the rest of the rosy picture.

[madmark]

17. The biggest apologist reason for prolonging our occupation

is that Iraq is flypaper for regional arab terrorists and that by providing American targets in Iraq we are keeping them from coming here and doing more domestic attacks. It is in my mind an asinine argument (Can you imagine a suicide bomber saying,"I have to turn you down on this suicide mission in the US, OBL, because I already committed to one in Iraq, Sorry," and OBL not able to get someone else cause everybody in Al Quada is too busy?), but that said, if you accepted the argument as gospel, the "mission" for our guys in Iraq is in effect a 2005 third world form of Verdun. Not very comforting to a family member of an Iraq deployed soldier I would think, but I guess some people are comforted merely by Bush telling them he is thinking "about Iraq everyday".

It would be nice if instead of Iraq our CIC was thinking about Al Quada everyday and perhaps by extension, OBL, the Wahhabist mullahs, and their enablers and fomenters in the Saudi regime and their annihilation, but you don't hear that from our current Assclown-in-Chief.

[Mark E. Smith]

18. Bush: It Is Tough In Iraq

Astonishing revelations from the great mind that steers the ship of state.
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Bush: It Is Tough In Iraq

Middle East Online 6/21

US President says Iraq on his mind 'every day' amid mounting pressure to begin withdrawing troops.

WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush said Monday that the Iraq war was on his mind "every single day" and vowed to complete the mission "for the sake of world peace" despite calls for a US troop withdrawal.

"I think about Iraq every day -- every single day. Because I understand we have troops in harm's way and I understand how dangerous it is there," Bush said at a news conference after a summit with Iraqi leaders.

"And the reason it's dangerous is because there's these cold-blooded killers that will kill Americans or kill innocent Iraqis in order to try to drive us out of Iraq," he said.

"And the report from the field is that, while it's tough, more and more Iraqis are becoming battle-hardened and trained to defend themselves," he said.

The US president has launched a public relations offensive to defend the war, amid slumping approval ratings and growing worries about US policy in Iraq.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english?id=13820

In a time of national crisis, America turns to President Toys-In-The-Attic to provide the vision and purpose that will carry us to a new and better day.

Article comes with photo of Bush trying very hard to look sincere.

[warrens]

21. I have a brilliant strategy that will save his presidency

Re-up. Not that he really served the first time, but heck, a fightin' preznit, goin' toe to toe with them dead-enders, would be great. He could take Pigboy and Kittenboy and Oildick with him. It would be like a Sgt. Rock comic book.

Hopefully, they will get a humvee with standard-issue armor.

[0007]

19. Hitler made a case for the ovens also!

[indepat]

20. Give W credit for staying the course no matter how disastrous

[Supersedeas]

22. No answer -- and the Corporate Media?? ptblank -- chickenhawk walks away