"The consequences of failure in Iraq would be unthinkable"

[kentuck]

What did Bush mean by this comment? ?????? From his press conference..
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"Yet in this conflict there is no safe alternative to resolute action. The consequences of failure in Iraq would be unthinkable. Every friend of America in Iraq would be betrayed to prison and murder as a new tyranny arose. Every enemy of America in the world would celebrate, proclaiming our weakness and decadence, and using that victory to recruit a new generation of killers."

[FreakinDJ]

1. I think it was a political ballon

"Yet in this conflict there is no safe alternative to resolute action. The consequences of failure in Iraq would be unthinkable. Every friend of America in Iraq would be betrayed to prison and murder as a new tyranny arose. Every enemy of America in the world would celebrate, proclaiming our weakness and decadence, and using that victory to recruit a new generation of killers."

........ and that is why I am forced to reinstate the draft

[swag]

2. yet the unthinkable is what we now have n/t

[sam sarrha]

3. Worst case sanerio...Iraqi congress could declare US soldiers infidel

invaders and could order a fatwa for the conflagration of all forign emperialists...they just had test run for that.. I have lived in an Islamic Republic..They really hated us for our support of israel..back in 73.. and W just declared the Israeli settlements all but legal, and under the UN occupation of conquered lands is illegal, and we actually fund the wall and the settlements.. our aid to them makes the afore mentioned possable. sorry but W can spin nice nice about the Israeli's here but the Moslems dont buy that shit... just more of the same to them.. when the israeli's shoot and killed about 980 children last year ..mostly 6-17 and mostly in the side of the head with rubber bullets with very little rubber on them and also killed about 9000 adults.. all those people had sons, brothers, uncles, fathers, grandfathers... and a lot of friends that are really pissed off.. and another reason for every other moslem in the world to hate us more.. and the problems over there are mostly over the settlements in the Occupied Territories... which is a land grab for the water.. before the creation of a state for the palistenians.

this whole mess was not thought out AT ALL, just the fantacy of a wet brain drunk who wants to be Emperor.

[BabsSong]

4. You know, if the asshole hadn't "thunked" up Iraq in the first place,

we wouldn't be facing the 'unthinkable'. You broke it, George...you fix it you little prick!!!!!

[RealDems.org]

5. he established the playing field

Bush does this with everything. He states his side as fact, marginalizing any dissenting opinion. By making it sound as if no reasonable person would advocate pulling out of Iraq, he's making sure no reasonable person will.

[Turbineguy]

6. For him the "unthinkable"

is hustling his raggedy ass back to the pig farm.

[leesa]

7. What? He'd have to get a real job?

Everything he's done has always been a failure. The only difference here is that he may finally log some time behind bars.

[SarahB]

8. The quagmire we're now in is an inherent failure.

Shrub's the unthinkable failure (or miserable failure that is). :thumbsdown:

[TruthPrevails]

9. Admitting failure = Giving up the White House

Bush cannot admit to any failure. The only way he can hang on is by stirring up more hatred which in turn calls for more military action which leads to more retaliation by the Iraqi civilians.

If he had an iota of integrity, he would have admitted his mistakes and stepped down. Bush will never be that big of a man.