Bush faces revolt on Iraq

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has defiantly reaffirmed his "stay-the-course" message on Iraq, even as some of the unpopular war's strongest defenders have turned critical ahead of key November elections.

With just over two months before voters decide who controls the US Congress, Bush took pains on Monday to confront candidates, overwhelmingly opposition Democrats, who want to set a timetable for a US withdrawal.

"Any sign that says we're going to leave before the job is done simply emboldens terrorists," he said at a press conference. "We're not leaving, so long as I'm the president. That would be a huge mistake."

But more than a few politicians and commentators once firmly in Bush's camp have joined the doubters on the war, which has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and the lives of more than 2,600 US troops.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqpoliticsbush

[acmavm]

1. Right, now all of a sudden they're anti-war. Sure, You bet.

And I'm the Queen of England.

[rodeodance]

2. hey, i will take em while I can:

Republican Representative Walter Jones (news, bio, voting record), who once helped rename French fries "freedom fries" in anger at Paris's opposition to the conflict, reversed course in June 2005 and urged Bush to set a withdrawal timetable.

Michael Fitzpatrick, another Republican representative who backed the March 2003 invasion, has reportedly branded both his Democratic rival -- a decorated Iraq war veteran who supports a US redeployment -- and Bush as "extreme."

"Congressman Fitzpatrick says no to both extremes: No to
President Bush's 'stay-the-course' strategy, ... and no to Patrick Murphy's 'cut-and-run' approach," said a Fitzpatrick campaign flier described in the Washington Times.

Moderate Republican Christopher Shays, who backed the use of force to oust
Saddam Hussein, told the Washington Post last week that he would propose a time frame for a US withdrawal from Iraq.

And in one of the most high-profile campaigns, the Democratic Party's Senate primary in Connecticut, a political novice who opposed the war beat a well-established Democratic senator,
Joe Lieberman, who strongly supported it.

[Jed Dilligan]

3. They just want a war they can win

Maybe we should invade Grenada again

[MissWaverly]

5. Grenada's too dangerous how about the jellyfish that

invaded the Mediterranean, they're probably commie pinkos and they are certainly a threat.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Well said

I tend to be gullible too often, so coming here to DU is a good antidote. :)

[barb162]

19. Some of the pugs have been complaining for a while, a year

or more. Now whether that is from fear of losing their seats or from some deep moral thought, who knows.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. What course? Bush has no course. He's wandering aimlessly.

And the RePubelickin's are heading to the lifeboats.

[Ilsa]

10. I wish we could place him in the desert for 40 years with

a screwed up compass. Let him wander aimlessly and see how he likes "staying the course" of going nowhere.

[Thor_MN]

15. Desert? Why? Set him loose in any city without any handlers...

He needs Condi to hold his dick and give permission to use the bathroom - He is clueless...

[Theduckno2]

18. Give him a working compass, a map and him WILL wander 40 years.

There is a quote, I believe attributable to Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) that goes:

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

My guess all those supporters of the war expected a nice big payout from the invasion of Iraq and they got a situation that is draining our Treasury. They see this as the time to cut their mounting liabilities and not wait for a Democratic Congress to stiff them with the bill (in higher taxes).

Of course Halliburton, Bechtel, etal have done very well for themselves. :grr:

[Straight Shooter]

6. bush already said he's leaving the Iraq mess to the next president

All this posturing and swaggering is meaningless.

Anyway, AFAIC, he isn't my president, so he can STFU already about what he is or isn't going to do about Iraq.

[PointAndLaugh]

7. This war was lost when the first bombs fell on Baghdad.

The sooner Americans understand this, the better.

[LynnTheDem]

9. More than this "war" was lost at that moment; America's soul was lost.

INVASION.

OCCUPATION.

Of a sovereign nation that had been doing nothing whatsoever to anyone, least of all to us. That is as "supreme crime" as a nation can get.

[badgervan]

16. And.....

.... don't forget TORTURE and ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING.

[LynnTheDem]

8. "We're not leaving, so long as I'm the president."

You as "president" was the biggest mistake America ever made, bush.

bush has caused more American deaths than 911...and he'll continue the slaughter.

[VegasWolf]

12. That would be a huge mistake," said the huge mistake of a person. nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. "...overwhelmingly opposition Democrats..."

:wtf:

"...the Democratic Party's Senate primary in Connecticut, a political novice who opposed the war beat a well-established Democratic senator, Joe Lieberman, who strongly supported it."

:wtf:


Who the Hell is Oliver Knox? :grr:
A writer, not a journalist. :think:

[whistle]

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[Harper_is_Bush]

17. What a great article. Kicked and RECOMMEND. n/t

[barb162]

20. Wouldn't it be "funny" if Congress pulled the financing plug

What could Bush do? Nothing.

[Demeter]

21. It Would Be Different--Congress Actually DO Something?

It's nice to have a dream....