Conservatives call for Bush to emphasize ‘leaving Iraq’

[rodeodance]

Source: The Hill





Leading The News

Conservatives call for Bush to emphasize ‘leaving Iraq’

By Manu Raju
July 25, 2007
Some conservative activist leaders, fearing voter anger with the Iraq war, want President Bush and GOP leaders to begin emphasizing that U.S. troops will be “leaving Iraq” to give Republicans cover as they head into a tough political landscape in 2008.

To assuage an angry public, the activists argue that the White House soon needs to articulate clearly that the war will end.
That tactic will help Republican presidential and congressional candidates focus on the domestic issues that could energize the base and win over independents, they say.

By talking openly about the war’s conclusion, Republicans could blunt criticism about supporting an open-ended conflict in Iraq while continuing to attack Democrats for “surrendering” by supporting a specific date for withdrawing troops from Iraq, the activists contend. Pointing to an end to the war will also help reshape the debate about what happens to Iraq after the U.S. leaves, an area that conservatives feel has been overshadowed by Capitol Hill’s continued focus on whether to withdraw troops from the region.

“The one-paragraph explanation of what we’re doing in Iraq has to have the word ‘leaving’ in there,” said Grover Norquist, a conservative leader and the head of Americans for Tax Reform. “If Bush would move to ‘leaving,’ then other people, including the MoveOn.org people and the , move to a more extreme position than you have, because they have put themselves in the anti-Bush position.”.......

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I fear this will work on many-----Dems included

[kurth]

1. Yeah, any day now

like, in 2107.

[Theduckno2]

7. "Any day now" being the day the oil and gas run out.

It is so good for me to be this cynical at 9 o'clock in the morning!

[ck4829]

2. Conservative Sponsored Deception

They're not telling Bush to leave, they're only telling him to say "We'll leave someday", wow.

[BOSSHOG]

3. More conservative values on parade

They don't give a fuck about our kids being slaughtered because of the intentional lies of a conservative they are concerned about VOTER ANGER WITH THE IRAQ WAR.

grover norquist does not want to do the right thing, he wants to play politics with the lives of our kids.

The republican party and its supporters are the most vile, evil, hateful, disgusting life forms on the planet.

[customerserviceguy]

12. Even the rethugs

are starting to see the handwriting on the wall. If Iraq is the leading issue of the 2008 campaign, they lose. And some of them definitely know it.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Conservatives need their hearing checked.

According to the administration, the troops ain't leaving until mid 2009.

[rodeodance]

5. It is clear example of Repugs trying to save their butts--Rhetorical---NOTHING

about dying US troops, civilians, destroying a nation.

[tularetom]

6. Yeah but bush is so dumb he'll react by getting his back up

and refusing to make even this meaningless gesture, which will of course piss off even more undecided voters.

[Texifornia]

8. Yep, it's a BYOP party...

Bring Your Own Petard....

I'll provide the hoist.

[Maribelle]

9. attack Democrats for “surrendering” by supporting a specific date for withdrawing troops from Iraq?

So we see again in print an expected convincing sound bite for the 2008 presidential and congressional republican candidates - - a specific date for withdrawing troops means surrendering

And of course republican candidates will use that same exaggerated intonation Bush uses when targeting the tiny minds of wingnut supporters, the war mongers, and the oil cartel.

(I will never cease to be amazed at how the war mongers, that love thinking about innocent children being blow to bits by cluster bombs, that consider brutal torture of humans an intelligent method for gaining secrets of the enemy, how they all go goo when hearing Bush talk baby talk to them.)

The strength manifested by Hillary's demands for the Pentagon to produce a timeline for troop withdrawal packages a high degree of intelligence with the capacity to create achievable standards for ending Bush’s fiasco of an occupation in Iraq.

[PSPS]

10. "I have a secret plan to end the war." - Richard Nixon

[TwilightGardener]

11. So, lie and say you're leaving when you're not. THAT'S how to rebuild

America's trust and confidence in you. Brilliant!

[damntexdem]

13. Yeah, but then it's rather hard to leave ...

when one plans to stay for good.

Let's see politicians of either party push on the issue of permanent bases and permanent stationing of U.S. troops in Iraq.