Karen Hughes: Bush was "absolutely right to go into Iraq"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"Oct. 30: President Bush speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich."

In 2000, the race came down to the state of Florida, where the president Sunday held a rally in Tampa near the headquarters of U.S. Central Command. Bush was introduced by retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Schwarzkopf said Democrats "have no plan whatsoever for combating global terrorism" and "have no leadership whatsoever. We do have a leader," Schwarzkopf told a baseball stadium filled with more than 10,000 people, "and that leader knows how to go about defeating terrorism."

The president's longtime security adviser Karen Hughes said Sunday that the president is "very much enjoying the final days" of this tough campaign. Hughes also said that Kerry made a "strategic mistake" in talking about the missing explosives in Iraq that was all the talk during this last week of campaigning. Hughes told FOX News Sunday that the story only reminds voters that Iraq was a dangerous place and the president was "absolutely right to go into Iraq and try to remove that danger and that threat to our country."

But Kerry adviser Bob Shrum countered that it is "stunning to hear Karen Hughes try to excuse the malfeasance of this administration on these weapons" by suggesting that the amount missing was not 380 tons as first stated in a New York Times report but probably closer to 100 tons.

Shrum also complained that Bush's campaign is one of fear and that Kerry can handle terrorism. "The fact of the matter is that people have made a judgment that John Kerry can handle terrorism. They have made a judgment that he can be commander in chief. They've made a judgment, in a lot of polls, that he will handle the foreign policy and national security of this country better. But what they really like is the fact that he understands that a president has to do more than one thing at a time -- all this president does is talk about one thing and try to play the politics of fear -- that the president has to stand up and fight for jobs, for health care, for the middle class," he told Chris Wallace, host of FOX News Sunday.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137193,00.html

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[argyl]

2. Smirk's mommy can't admit to a mistake either. No surprise here.

[Gman]

3. Hughes is damaged goods

She seems like a nice enough person, but her very close relationship with that idiot makes her damaged goods. Therefore, she has no credibility.

[emulatorloo]

7. Nothing nice about her. She'll say whatever it takes to keep GWB in power

EOM

[Lefty48197]

13. Are you kidding?

Karen Hughes seems like a nice enough person? Are we talking about the SAME Karen Hughes? I think George W. Bush has a better chance at getting into heaven, than Karen Hughes does. Good luck to both of them.

[deadparrot]

4. Bullshit. If this was taking place under a Dem,

whether it was Kerry, Gore, Clinton, or someone else, there would have been impeachment proceedings started immediately.

[MichiganVote]

You should have seen this town after dumbshit Bush left

It looked like a pigsty. The head bitch from Texas can't defend Bush from the indefensible.

[Daisey Mae]

5. Kool-Aid maybe?

She invented Bush II Kool-aid.... She has no conscious......idea of the evil she has brought on this country.....

[Captain Lance Bass]

6. And we have the right to fire his ass on Tuesday :-)

[Nicholas_J]

8. Yeah right.

Going to war with Iraq was simply a clever political move for Bush to create the appearance of being a strong leader. Saddam a terribly brutal dictator who could terrorize his own people was much too afraid to attack the U.S. or support terrorists for fear of the consequences. Bush needing some quick victory against anything Arab attacked the weak and militarily inept Hussein to gain credibility as wartime leader. Hussein who failed at every single attempt he made to deal with his neighbors was the perfect taarger. When Israel dared to destroy the Osirak reactor, Hussein blustered and whined at the United Nations and in the Arab press, but didnt dare retaliate. His attack on a militarily inferior Iran resulted in a stalemate, though Hussein had the far superior force and much more advanced equipment. His invasion of Tiny Kuwait was more Saddams style. And he was thrown out in six weeks by a numerically smaller United Nations force.

Now Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden are a differnent story. THey are not afraid to attack a far superior force. THey have had numerous successes in attacking the U.S. and its overseas interests, and its allies. With acceptable consequences to them. Bush was afraid to try to go after Al Qaeda once the Taliban was overthrown and Al Qaeda was no longer a target with definable borders. If he had gone after bin Laden, he would haqve come up empty handed and looked like a weak president. It was easier for Bush to create the myth of a dangerous Iraq, than to pursue the real danger.


When you think about it, Bush is much like Hussein. he will attack a much weaker nation to appear like a tough leader, but when it comes to going after an opponent who actually will hit back hard and repeatedly, Bush backs away, or just engages in tough talk.

So Bin Laden reminded us this week

[americanwomanone]

9. Well if she feels that way............

give her a gun and a ticket over there!

[Ilsa]

16. And her son. He's probably old enough now.

KH is a damn lying bitch. She'll do anything for Bush to keep that asshole in power.

[Lefty48197]

10. No Karen. He was absolutely WWWWWWWrong.

and we're tired of you Republicans trying to convince us of what is obviously a lie. Get a life. Get out of politics and pray for your own salvation. You're going to need all the help you can get.

[Malva Zebrina]

11. Right and tomorrow it will be Laura saying the same thing

and Rice and maybe even the two teensie bordello twins!

What the hell gives Karen Huges any sort of authority to spout off about foreign policy and this horrendous slaughter of a war? What meetings does she sit in that she is qualified to tell the American people that this war was "right"? It should be Condi, Or Wolfowitz we hear from, but she is too busy these days flying all over making speeches for her re-election and Wolfowitz seems to have gone into hiding. We did not elect Karen and she is not appointed to anything but advisor on communications, telling Bush how to make speeches and how to pretend to be a president.

This is mere desperation.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. She might also be attempting to take the wind out of Colin Powell's sails

...re: his "We are losing in Iraq" comments:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2566343

Also, it's a "standard Rove playbook tactic" to just stand on principle when you've run out of valid, concrete ways to support your position. When you hear "we were right" coming out of Bush or any of his talking heads, you know they haven't got a leg to stand on.

"I'm right" = "No I'm not, but I'm also unwilling to admit it"

:toast:

[spanone]

12. She'll be headed back to Texas shortly. Goodbye Ms. Hughes.

P.S. Fuck You

[kskiska]

15. Karen is the first person * went to for advice on whether to invade

Iraq. Why should she say otherwise?

[Arkana]

17. Karen Pukes is, well, a puke

She fellates the Boy King just as well as the rest of the MSM does.

[NoPasaran]

18. The only thing I want to hear from Karen Huge

Is "Do you want to biggie size that?"

[onecent]

19. She's a hairball. n/t