White House to Joe Biden: Hold Your Horses on Rejecting Iraq Troop Surge

[CatWoman]

NEW YORK At today's press gaggle in Crawford, Texas, Scott Stanzel, pinch-hitting for White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, described the president's reaction to the death of Gerald R. Ford and his upcoming meetings to discuss his next moves in Iraq.

Stanzel said the government would shut down for a full day next week, as traditional, when a former president dies. Asked about the president's reaction to Sen. Joseph Biden's outright rejection of Bush's rumored plan to escalate the conflict in Iraq by sending 30,000 or more new troops therre, Stanzel replied, "Well, I hope that Senator Biden would wait to hear what the President has to say before announcing what he's opposed to. President Bush will talk soon to our troops, to the American people and to the Iraqi people about the new way forward in Iraq that will lead to a democratic and unified country that can sustain, govern, and defend itself.

"So the President has been listening to a lot of different people, whether it's on Capitol Hill, whether it's members of the Iraq Study Group, whether it's talking with the Iraqis directly, and he appreciates the input. But certainly in terms of Senator Biden, we would hope that he, too, would also wait to hear what the President has to say before announcing his opposition."

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[Kagemusha]

1. It'd be too late then and everyone knows it

Bush'll wave the Constitution, say it's his decision alone and have his cronies yell that no loyal American can oppose the decisions of the Commander in Chief during wartime.

[Vincardog]

3. And all Good Brown shirts will throw a snappy salute and march off to kill more people in pursuit of

The almighty Corporate Dollar.

This is where the jack booted thugs begin Marching over the crying widow's and orphans.

Does anyone else believe that the evil psychopaths and sycophants in the WH have to be removed?

[ixion]

2. uh, what's to 'listen' to?

30K more troops will not solve the matter, only make things worse. Would could the magnificent orator have to say that would make that FACT any different?

[harun]

11. Bush is just stalling

Anything he can do to delay puts him that much closer to leaving office and passing this hot patato to the next guy (or gal). If it goes good after that he will take credit for it, if it goes bad, he will say they messed it up.

[gratuitous]

4. "Have we ever steered you wrong before?"

Fer crissakes; who needs to wait to see that this administration is just stalling their day of reckoning with another boneheaded maneuver designed to gull the gullible. It's not working so well anymore, especially because these clowns have such a poor track record to run on, that they're reduced to whining about how they really, really are gonna pull a rabbit out of the hat this time.

They make Bullwinkle look like a genius.

[CatWoman]

8. eenie meanie, chili beanie

:)

[gratuitous]

10. Meow-y Christmas!

And a Cat-Nappy New Year!

[Mz Pip]

5. What utter BS

We have been forced to listen to Bush make it up as he goes along approach to Iraq for nearly 4 years. Bush has provided no new material, no new approach, only new sound bites and slogans.

Unless Bush suddenly decides to begin immediate withdrawl from Iraq then he really is offering nothing new.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Old and In the Way]

6. wait until Bush tells us that he's escalating the war?

Stanzel sounds perfect for the job of WH spokesperson...he has that pitch perfect sense of irony.

"President Bush will talk soon to our troops, to the American people and to the Iraqi people about the new way forward in Iraq that will lead to a democratic and unified country that can sustain, govern, and defend itself."

And what if it doesn't lead to this perfect little pony?

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Am I alone in suspecting that Senator Biden has habitually listened to people,

and that it would not be a novelty for him, whether he waits to hear Bush's "pronunciamentos" or not; that listening to people is an old Democratic tradition? (Hence the fact that the last people they would depend on to learn what the public wants are Republicans and their perjured, MSM, ventriloquist puppets).

Indeed, the information Senator Biden must already have gleaned, would hardly be likely to be of such a nature as to be enriched by the input of any Neocon, however eminent - simply because they have proven to be endemic and incorrigible miscreants.

[MaineYooper]

9. this coming from the man who has repeatedly described others' proposals as 'non-starters'

Irony is so lost on * and his mis-administration.

[Miss Chybil]

12. Are there any corners to turn in this new way forward? nt

[Gman]

13. New way? Iraq war 2.0?

"that will lead to a democratic and unified country that can sustain, govern, and defend itself."

All hail our glorious, all-wise and all-knowing Commander In Chief! We are lost without his wisdom and knowledge.

It's dangerous that this dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers "president" even has any say-so on what happens in Iraq.

[Toots]

14. Bush* is a known LIAR and has zero credibility, why should anyone listen to him?

The entire Bush* Administration has zero credibility...It is time they start listening to us..