Bush adviser leaving White House

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Public support for the Iraq war is low. Lawmakers are battling the White House over money to pay for the combat. Suicide bombings continue in Baghdad.

Despite it all, J.D. Crouch, who is stepping down from his national security post at the White House, is confident history will prove that invading Iraq was the right thing to do.

Crouch, who has been President Bush's deputy national security adviser for more than two years, said the president never will be swayed by opposition to the war. Instead, Crouch said, Bush will use his resolve to help convince a broad section of Americans that it's important to be in Iraq.

"I think it was really the right thing to do, and I think history will bear that out," Crouch said emphatically in an interview Thursday.

Crouch, 48, said he's been thinking for months about leaving his job as deputy to the president's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley. In announcing his resignation on Friday, Bush said Crouch has been "at the forefront in devising and implementing the new strategy to help build a peaceful, stable and secure Iraq."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_adviser_exits

[lynnertic]

1. Crouch, Jumps!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. LOL!

Welcome to DU!

[gratuitous]

2. Invading Iraq was "right," was it, Mr. Crouch?

Surely you're leaving your cushy government job to go over to Iraq, then? There are plenty of guys 48 years old and older over there. Why not you, J.D.?

At least he had the dubious honesty to say that Bush will never be swayed by opposition to the war. Democrats in Congress, and any Republicans who still care about the United States, are you listening?

[Virginia Dare]

3. Last one out, hit the lights...n/t

[deutsey]

4. I know so many Bushies like this...These people will NEVER admit they were wrong

[hippiechick]

6. "... is confident history will prove ... "

Of course history will "prove" that it was the "right thing" to do, the rich people and the corporations write the history books!


:freak: Goodbye and Good Riddance, Mr. Slimeball.

[Roland99]

29. Wow, just as delusional as his idol.

[acmavm]

7. Another delusional dangerous nutcase jumps ship.

[Supersedeas]

30. Jumping ship is not so hard when he believes that he can fly.

[MaineDem]

8. Damn, I was hoping it was Rove.

Actually many will leave to find new jobs as the lame duck White House goes on.

[displacedtexan]

9. Hm. Have to wonder if he's on The List.

Just my first thought after reading your post.

[Nickster]

10. I thought the same thing. n/t

[Orsino]

17. I'm not one of those coincidence theory nutjobs...

...so I gotta wonder. However, so many scandals are converging on the White House that it may be naive to assume that only one explains each resignation.

[chelsea0011]

24. He'll say he was just holding hands

[rodeodance]

11. If he has been at the 'forefront" of the Failure in IRaq--then he should be booted out!!

"at the forefront in devising and implementing the new strategy to help build a peaceful, stable and secure Iraq."

[lonestarnot]

12. And another one bites the dust.. and another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the

dust! We need a dust smilie.

[Javaman]

13. And just why is this fool leaving now? Isn't the Escort Madam

testifying today?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

14. I am sure some of them are leaving because...

They need people to go open the house in Paraguay.

[Virginian]

39. ... because they want to spend more time with their families. n/t

[ckramer]

15. Invade Vietnam was the right thing to do

haha!

[quiet.american]

16. Three reasons off the top why it was wrong and always will be:

1. Deceiving this country into a military conflict of choice is a high crime.
2. The invasion of a sovereign nation is an international crime.
3. No one will thank Bush for the decades of increased terrorism his war of choice has spawned.

[Amonester]

18. 3.a Except the have's and have-more's of the BFEE's MIC & ...

Big Oil CEOs who never had to sacrifice anything and made a tax-free bundle beyond their wildest dreams for years 'n years, and especially the veepee...

[quiet.american]

22. Point taken. :) n/t

[LynnTheDem]

19. No "wmd". No threat to us or anyone else. No ties to al Qaeda.

Nothing to do with the 911 attacks.

How, exactly, was invading a nation that hadn't been doing one damn thing to anyone "the right thing to do"?

Then again, Hitler thought invading Poland was the "right thing to do", too.

Invading nations is the "SUPREME CRIME".

It's what the Hitler regime swung for.

[TexasLawyer]

28. excellent point!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Nuremberg_Trials._Defendants_in_their_dock%3B_Goering,_Hess,_von_Ribbentrop,_and_Keitel_in_front_row.gif

[Arugula Latte]

20. In retrospect, said Crouch, the Hindenberg disaster was also good.

Ditto for the plague.

[yellowcanine]

33. And Hitler was just a social reformer, don'tcha know?

Pol Pot also.

[Magleetis]

21. What a moran

History will not be kind to *. Too bad we all have to live with his fuck ups.

[sabra]

23. WH: Crouch is not on DC Madam's list

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/

<snip>

According to NSC staff, Crouch told the president at Easter that he wanted to leave government service because his daughter is starting college this Fall, and his son in high school. Crouch will be at the White House until June.

Rumors began when the statement went out to reporters because the names of the people on the DC Madam's list will be released later today. However, an aide to President Bush tells ABC News that Crouch is not on the DC Madam's List.

[annabanana]

35. This is HYSTERICAL!! Every time someone (ANYone) leaves this

administration.. Someone will have to trot out and say "No, no.. this person was NOT on the Madam's list" or "No, this person was NOT associated with Abramoff" or, or, or. .

Every single person who leaves from NOW ON!

Rove has wet dreams about this kind of situation, when the shoe is on the other foot......

[rocktivity]

25. Another victim of the DC madam?

After all, if he's confident that Bush did the right thing, WHY IS HE STEPPING DOWN?

"An aide to President Bush tells ABC News that Crouch is not on the DC Madam's List?" I thought ABC News HAD the list!

:think:
rocknation

[bobthedrummer]

26. J.D. Crouch II profile from RightWeb-with lots of helpful links for those that give a damn

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1259

[donkeyotay]

27. Now that's what I call a surge. You start it and leave.

Among the president's many advisers, Crouch has proved to be one of the staunchest supporters of the administration's hardline security and war on terror policies, including in the Middle East. This was underscored in early January 2007 when Bush unveiled his controversial new “surge” strategy for Iraq, which aimed to significantly boost the number of U.S. troops there. Crouch reportedly led the review team that produced the strategy. His support for these policies has won him praise from some of the more hardline right-wing political factions, including the neoconservatives. Said Frank Gaffney, director of the Center for Security Policy, in a 2006 press interview: “Knowing him as I do, I'm almost certain that he is exercising influence, and influence that is reinforcing the most robust policies and positions of this administration” (Inter Press Service, January 9, 2006).

[superconnected]

31. He should be arrested.

"Crouch has been "at the forefront in devising and implementing the new strategy to help build a peaceful, stable and secure Iraq." "

[yellowcanine]

32. This crowd is relying an awful lot on historical vindication. As if it were automatic or something.

Well people do screw up and history does record screw ups. My guess is that history will be a lot harder on Bush than the American people have been.

[Renew Deal]

34. I was thinking the same thing.

The only reason Bush stays in Iraq is so he doesn't have to admit he was wrong. This costs hundreds of lives a day.

[AndyTiedye]

36. Crouch: "I am Not a Rat, and This Ship is Not Sinking. Really."

[texanshatingbush]

37. The WHITE HOUSE made the decision to send more troops?????

"For several months last year, Crouch's cramped office in the West Wing that he'll vacate early next month was the nerve center for the Bush administration's top-to-bottom review of war strategy that culminated with the president's decision in January to send more troops to Iraq."

Gee, I thought it was "the commanders on the ground", as opposed to some political entity, who devised the new surge strategy.

I guess Chimpy McFlightsuit lied about that, too.

[Cha]

38. No crouch...never happen.

It won't turn out right cause Iraq was Bombed based on bushit lies.

Hundreds of thousands of innocents were killed by bush and his bloody handlers and all the Orwellian words in the world ain't gonna make it right.

"bush said Crouch has been "at the forefront in devising and implementing the new strategy to help build a peaceful, stable and secure Iraq."

Before there's a "peaceful, stable, and secure Iraq" there's gonna be a bloody, de-stabilized, and insecure United States of America and that's on you Mofu((er.