Bush Plots Strategy to Sell Iraq Policy

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia - President Bush took advantage of a vacationing Congress, a surprise visit to once-restive Anbar province and supportive words from Australia's prime minister to trumpet his claims of progress in Iraq. Now he must press his case to skeptical lawmakers and a war-weary U.S. public.

The coming week may be his last opportunity to shift the debate - or at least to give Republicans political cover and throw Democrats off stride.

The White House rollout strategy envisions a presidential speech to the nation, either Thursday or Friday.

"If you had asked two months ago, 'Is the surge succeeding?' people would have said, 'Ah, we're getting killed.' I mean literally," White House press secretary Tony Snow said in an interview. "But now it's very obvious that on the military side there has been some profound progress. And that progress also has real political implications in terms of the Iraqi people standing up to the folks who have been trying to blow up the government."

Read more: http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070908/46e21e40_3ca6_1552620070908-1249359421

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Read the entire article if you have the chance, especially Tony Snow's comments about Democrats seeing "real progress."

[onehandle]

1. "Plots" and "Sell".

Not exactly the kind of uplifting words you want your leader to embrace.

[IndianaGreen]

15. Add to those words "Democratic cave in" and you got the whole strategy in place

I am sure that the same Democratic Congress that caved-in on war funding and warrantless searches will not surprise us with some Johnny-come-lately guts.

[ohio2007]

2. The surge works by increasing the body count

putting boots on the ground in Sadr city is just asking for trouble so no wonder the death toll jumps when you get in peoples faces.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d30_1189218166
al Sadre told his forces to stand down.....I guess they listen.
Just
stay out of those places and the death toll will drop.

[rodeodance]

3. Bush braces for policy fight over Iraq (will lay out his 'vision')

Source: ap

Bush braces for policy fight over Iraq

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago

SYDNEY, Australia - President Bush wrapped up his participation at an Asia-Pacific summit Saturday and prepared for a renewed fight with the Democratic-run Congress over the future of the U.S. involvement in Iraq.


He plans a nationally televised address this coming week to "lay out a vision" for the American people about the U.S. role. In his Saturday radio address, Bush also set the stage for Monday's congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus, the chief U.S. commander in Iraq.

In the radio talk, recorded before he headed back to the United States, Bush recounted his Labor Day trip to Iraq's Anbar Province to visit U.S. troops and "see with my own eyes the remarkable changes they are making possible."

Sunni tribal leaders, working with Iraqi and U.S. forces, helped drive out al-Qaida militants, Bush said. "The level of violence is down. Local governments are meeting again. Young Sunnis are joining the police and army. And normal life is returning," the president said.

"Success in Anbar is critical to the democratic future of Iraq and to the war on terror," he said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=An8abRv2RRkU0KZ4r5hDKtms0NUE

[rodeodance]

4. says new bin laden tape is reminder of :"the dangerous world in which we live."

Thousands of demonstrators, held back by metal fences and concrete barriers, protested over the Iraq war, poverty and global warming.

Pacific defense issues was the focus of a meeting Bush held with Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Later, the president met separately with Abe and with Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono, whom Bush thanked "very much for your strength in this struggle against extremists."

In his session with Abe, Bush said Osama bin Laden's just-released video speech was a reminder of "the dangerous world in which we live."

[Olney Blue]

5. Go ahead, Chimp. Speak.

[daninthemoon]

6. Why do I imagine him appearing for this speech in some trumped

up uniform? Bushler's vision for our future. Given this past week's terra arrests, and guest speakers from UBL to the cia director, next week patreus and *, a "vote" tu fund the war without end in congress, and a possible terra event to cap it all off, there's no limit to how many bad things might be about to unfold. Hold on to your socks, we might not have seen anything yet.

[Bitwit1234]

7. So has he gone from listening to the Lord to listening to psychics.

Which one gave him his vision? Oh heck, what difference does it matter the 30% that are still blinded by all the ass kissing will agree no matter where he gets his crap.

[ohio2007]

8. dup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2982833

[gratuitous]

9. Bush lays out his vision

"Okay, 'Murika. First put on these special glasses. Yeh, they're called 'beer goggles,' heheheheheh. Now, if you have these on and you look at your husband or wife, I unnerstan' that they'll automatically look better. Okay, next, let's all set our clocks to 10 minutes before closin' time. See how that works? Now, look at this map of Eye-rack."

[niceypoo]

10. Bush sent away for a pair of X-Ray specs

Now he can see clearly...

[Robbien]

11. I don't understand why they think something like this will make any difference

On the Iraq issue everyone already has a deep seated opinion. People have all picked a side. How do they think having this ill-spoken man speaking on TV change anything?

[Doctor_J]

12. Why are rove's only plans on how to "sell" something?

Why have have a plan to actually DO something?

[Binka]

14. Don't Be Obtuse We Are The OWNERSHIP Society Remember?

In order to own something one has to buy it so ergo it MUST be sold. This is the mantra of these motherfucking lying shitdustbag fuckwittages. And if we don't buy it they shove it down our throats anyway and steal the money from our wallets. I hate every one of these ASS CARROTS! I fucking hate them.

[radfringe]

16. correction

we are OWNED by the ownership society... bush's base - the have's and have mores

[Binka]

17. You Are Exactly Right!

There wasn't any emoticon for what I was attempting to say because it wasn't sarcasm it was more irony. Maybe Skinner will make us an emoticon at an ironing board. LOL. Good to see you BTW. :hi:

[Peace Patriot]

13. This is so unfair! How many times do we have to listen to this "sell"?

How many times do we have to vote against it--only to find, $100 billion MORE dollars for this lemon of a war stolen from our pockets, and more commercials for ripping children's legs off and exploding their heads with bombs, and torturing their parents for fun and profit?

Over and over and over again, they make this sales pitch. Over and over and over again, we decline to buy. It's like being stuck in a basement of Hell inside a TV commercial.

90% buying war. (9/11/01)

60% buying war, signs of falling market. (Somewhere in 2002.)

56% significant sales resistance, eve of war. (February 2003)

63% not buying torture, oppose it "under any circumstances." (May 2004)

Only 29% to 44%(?) eager to buy war and torture, and, mysteriously, war and torture get bought anyway. (11/2/04)

70% refuse to answer the door or the phone, won't go the mall, and start reporting obnoxious sales people to the Better Business Bureau, but still, war and torture win again--new and improved 'Democratic' war and torture successfully marketed; war profits booming, impeachment off the table--whoopee! (11/7/06)

War, the Commercial. Brought to you by....your friendly local neighborhood Used War and Torture Dealers. And George Bush.

Time to smash the TV and bust outa Hell.