Bush Cites Israel As Model for Iraq

[unhappycamper]

Bush Cites Israel As Model for Iraq
JENNIFER LOVEN
June 28, 2007 11:14 PM EST


NEWPORT, R.I. — President Bush held up Israel as a model for defining success in Iraq, saying Thursday the U.S. goal there is not to eliminate attacks but to enable a democracy that can function despite violence.

With his Iraq policy under increasing criticism from the public and lawmakers in both parties, Bush went to the U.S. Naval War College to declare progress and plead for patience. At the same time, his top national security went to Capitol Hill to hear out Republican critics.

Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said this week U.S. troops should start leaving now because Bush's strategy will not have time to work.

National security adviser Stephen Hadley met with Lugar, GOP Sen. John Warner of Virginia and others. Warner said a defense policy bill expected to attract several war-related amendments in July was a main topic.

The White House thought it had until an expected September assessment by military commanders before facing a showdown on the unpopular war.

But a majority of senators now believes troops should start coming home in the next few months. House Republicans want to revive the independent Iraq Study Group to get new options.


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[rfranklin]

1. Do all the Iraqis have to be circumcised?

Will there be bar mitzvahs for everyone?

[regnaD kciN]

2. I'm sure the Shi'ites and Sunnis...

...will just love being told that their ideal should be Israel. :crazy:

[blueworld]

3. Surely THIS speech is legal proof of insanity??

Patience with his non-strategy while more American blood than Iraqi oil is flowing, and that doesn't include the Iraqi civilians who are trying to function democratically in the filth & rubble.

Israel is a "functioning" democracy with every baby given a gas mask as soon as they leave the maternity ward? Fences, bombs, rocket attacks. Let freedom ring.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Muslims must be wigging out over this statement.

* should never utter a word that his handlers haven't pre-approved.
As I recall, he also referred to US soldiers as 'Crusaders' a couple of years ago.
Lox and bagels for everyone!

[PurityOfEssence]

5. Oh goody, another theocracy

The problem is that they can't agree on which religion.