Bush says there'll be no "graceful exit" from Iraq

[dajoki]

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Bush says there'll be no "graceful exit" from Iraq
By Tom Raum
The Associated Press
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003455235_webbushiraq22.html

AMMAN, Jordan – President Bush today rejected calls for a measured withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, even as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, facing doubts about his ability to dampen violence, asserted his forces could take full control by June.

A day after publication of a leaked White House memo questioning al-Maliki's leadership capabilities, Bush shared a news conference stage with him and offered what sounded like unconditional support. "He's a strong leader," Bush said. "He's the right guy for Iraq."

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"There is a real sense of urgency but there is not a sense of panic," said Stephen J. Hadley, Bush's national security adviser and the author of a leaked memo that underscored doubts about al-Maliki.

The president used the news conference in the Jordanian capital to get in front of reports that a special committee headed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton would call for a phased withdrawal of troops to begin.

"I know there's a lot of speculation that these reports in Washington mean there's going to be some kind of graceful exit out of Iraq," Bush said. But he said if there is talk of a timetable, "all that does is set people up for unrealistic expectations."

[Redstone]

1. Of course not. It will be ugly and bloody and WAY too late.

Redstone

[dajoki]

4. You mean like it is now?

[Redstone]

9. Yes, indeed. They'll find a way to fuck it up. They cannot EVER do anything right.

Redstone

[dajoki]

14. You'll get no argument from me n/t

[Demeter]

2. As Long As There Is An Exit, and Fast

who is really going to take off points for lack of grace? This whole fiasco is the antithesis of grace, always has been, and that's the Bush style.

[Lisa]

3. there's no such thing as "graceful" when you're involved, Georgie

"Disgraceful" would be more appropriate.

[Redstone]

10. Amen to that!

Redstone

[Waya]

5. Of course not.....

.....it'll be 'Saigon: the Sequel'. A hasty, bungled escape out of the Green Zone with our Soldiers hanging on to the runners of the last copter out of Baghdad............

[DRoseDARs]

6. Apparently, Bush is looking for his Fall of Saigon moment...

Will the emergency evacuation of the Green Zone in Baghdad likewise be called Operation Babylift?

[Bad Penny]

18. Operation: Escape to Victory

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Hell, there wasn't even a graceful entrance.

[evilgenius602]

8. no, it will be a clumsy keystone kops-like debacle. I am embarassed

that this is what passes for a president.,

[izzie]

11. Face it this man knows he is right. It will stay the same in his mind

I just got a funny key ring and it has a counter on days we have left with this guy. 781 and we do need Gods help for those days I am sure. I do not even wish to think of the poor people of Iraq. What a mess.

[Buck Rabbit]

12. Bush has no imagination ! It could be a work of art.

Waves of helicopters flying out in tight precision from the world's biggest heliport located in the middle of the world's biggest embassy being constructed in Baghdad. Huge stereos blaring the "Flight of the Valkyries".

Little children throwing flowers at the helicopter formations flying overhead on their way to Kuwait.

[jody]

13. * will disgracefully complete the job whatever that is until voters rise up in anger and say ENOUGH!

[LiberalEsto]

15. If he wants "graceful,"

let him grab his cheerleading pompons and go to Baghdad and do back flips, etc. while our troops depart.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Just like there was no "graceful entrance" into Iraq

[madrchsod]

17. he`s to arrogant to seek a graceful way out

and he`s to stupid to understand how...

[dajoki]

19. Bush & grace=oil & water n/t