Bush Says Leaving Iraq Would Send a Bad Signal

[Not_Giving_Up]

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CRAWFORD, Texas -
President Bush said Thursday he understands and respects the views of anti-war advocates like a California mother camped outside his Texas ranch to mourn her soldier son fallen in
Iraq, but said it would be a mistake to bring U.S. troops home now.

"I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place," Bush said.

"I also have heard the voices of those saying: Pull out now," he said. "And I've thought about their cry and their sincere desire to reduce the loss of life by pulling our troops out. I just strongly disagree."

Immediate withdrawal "would send a terrible signal to the enemy."

Cindy Sheehan has been camped along a road near Bush's ranch since Saturday, asking to talk to Bush about her son Casey and vowing to remain until his Texas vacation ends later this month. Casey was killed five days after he arrived in Iraq last year. He was 24.

"I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan," Bush said. "She feels strongly about her position, and she has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America. She has a right to her position, and I thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is: Get out of Iraq now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so."

By Thursday, about 50 people had joined Sheehan's cause, pitching tents in muddy, shallow ditches and hanging anti-war banners; two dozen others have sent flowers. Her name was among the most popular search topics Wednesday on Internet blogs.

Bush spoke to reporters on a day when he played host to his administration's top national security, foreign policy and defense advisers at a time of increasing violence in Iraq and new nuclear worries involving Iran and North Korea.

Bush also indicated that the new Iranian president will receive a U.S. visa to attend an annual United Nations gathering next month and welcomed the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency's warning to Tehran about consequences of its nuclear ambitions.

Bush said U.S. investigators still have not yet determined what role Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have played in the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Even so, Bush said, the United States has separate obligations to other countries as the host nation for the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. So say it to her face, ya cowardly git.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. He's right. If we withdraw now, the whole world will know the U.S.

was misled by a pinhead. Better to stay the course and leave some doubt.

[noahmijo]

3. Show some real resolve assfuck

Send your daughters with a statement saying "I believe in this war so much I am now sacrificing my own children instead of just the children of others"

Could you do that "Georgie"?

[Spike from MN]

22. Exactly. Let them go serve his "noble cause."

It would be nice if someone at Camp Casey had a couple fo sets of camis with Jenna and Barbara's names on them all ready to give to Dubya when he goes there to speak to Cindy. OK, we all know he's too chickenshit to actually go there but the uniforms would make a nice display anyway. Fold them up and put them right next to the enlistment forms to make it easier for the twins.

[jeff30997]

4. "I understand the anguish that some feel"

He understand nothing and he doesn't give a damn.:grr:

[opihimoimoi]

5. It took him a week to memorize those words re Cindy

He is such a BS Artist its sickening....

In other words....he has no exit strat and is flummoxed.....

Mistake my ass....

[Cocoa]

6. he's never "thought long and hard" about anything

he just does what he's told. :puke:

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Send a terrible signal to the enemy now or later

it's going to happen, why put it off?

[Bob3]

8. Does anybody find this sentence very strange?

"I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place," Bush said.

Some? SOME? How about you, you mush wit jack off?


And dear * she is asking you to say WHY her son died - which I notice you didn't even come close to answering.

What a wanker.

[MADem]

9. It would send a bad signal

...to the idiots that voted for him--that they voted for a PUTZ. A putz who lied about the reason for war, the need for war, and the cost of war. That is the "bad signal" that chimpy is afraid of. He actually thinks that if he brazens it out, no one will notice how screwed up everything is.

Of course, the people who are really getting a bad signal nowadays are the families that have to answer the door to a sick-looking officer, accompanied by a chaplain, both in dress uniforms.

We regret to inform you....the worst signal in the world.

[flakey_foont]

10. from the Stephanie Miller show

You're a lying sack of crap.
You're a lying sack of crap.
You're a lying, scheming, stinking, nasty, sack of liquid crap!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. We would send a terrible signal

that anyone with a real military could probably beat the crap out of us on their home turf.

[Brotherjohn]

12. We sent a bad signal the day we went into Iraq. (nt)

[Justitia]

13. Did he really say that stuff re: Cindy??? I didn't hear it at all!

Is this supposed to be a transcript of the press conf from Crawford I'm watching now?

I'll admit, I tend to zone out whenever he speaks (& I'm reading DU), but honestly, I didn't hear him say a word about Cindy!

????

[Justitia]

15. update: just heard him mention her & it was weaselly -eom

[Not_Giving_Up]

20. This was on Yahoo right before the Press Conference

Not the same thing

[Skidmore]

14. He always takes the coward's way out, doesn't he?

He never take responsibility, but is always happy to take credit. I'm surprised he didn't send Poppy or Bar out there to speak for him, like he usually does.

[prole_for_peace]

16. "I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place"

he UNDERSTANDS the anguish. he doesn't FEEL it but he UNDERSTANDS it. :puke:

[DemonFighterLives]

17. I was about to start a thread- Bush admits to more zarqawis

He stated that a pullout would send a bad message to the Zarqawis of the world. No wonder he can be killed and wounded so often.
He's really proud of the democracy that is coming to Iraq. :puke:

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Sheesh, what a candy-assed pantywaist he is. . .

(I'd call him a pussy, but that would be an insult to felines, as they have far more smarts and sense than most humans. And the mothers among them are VERY protective of their young brood - G*d help anyone or anything that stands between a mother and her kitties)

And Cindy Sheehan right now has the ferocity of a lioness.

:patriot:

[LeftNYC]

19. I think Get out of Iraq now isnt Cindy's only point...nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

21. No worse than the signal sent......

ATTACKING IRAQ without cause.