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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 03:06 AM
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WH P-R blitz coming to mil. bases and talk shows.


The day after his televised address, Bush was expected to reinforce the message with remarks from a Marine base in Quantico, Va., just outside Washington, and with the White House's release of an Iraq status report required by Congress.

As part of the public relations flurry, Vice President Dick Cheney planned to travel to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Michigan and MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. Iraq also was chosen as the topic for Bush's weekly Saturday radio address, and administration officials were being offered to television networks for Sunday news show appearances.

The full-throttle effort to get out Bush's message on Iraq reflects the high stakes for a president who lost his popularity and his party's control of Congress in large measure over the war and yet ordered 21,500 additional combat troops there in January to try to bring calm and give his goal of a stable, self-sustaining Iraq a chance. An additional 8,000 support troops soon followed.

Gradually phasing out that force escalation by next July — Bush's plan to be announced Thursday night — would still leave about 135,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Democrats against the war were not at all satisfied......

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq;_ylt=ApGCrWfizJ9QzKIlfUsLcG.s0NUE
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 03:24 AM
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1. Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb...Iran! The chorus begins.
it's sp much harder to rule while holding together an enormous web of lies and propaganda. If only they would discover how liberating the truth can be.

fat chance.
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