SNOW: We don't give a damn about what Americans think about the occupation

[bigtree]

Spokesman: Bush polls don't rule Iraq war

22 minutes ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060618/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

WASHINGTON - President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday.

"The president understands how a war can wear on a nation," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "Whatever the bleakness is, whatever the facts are on the ground, you figure out how to win. You can't do that by reading polls."

After three years of war, approval of Bush's handling of Iraq has dipped to 33 percent, a new low, and his overall job approval rating was 35 percent in a new AP-Ipsos poll. The war has brought a U.S. death toll of 2,500 and a price tag of $320 billion.

"The U.S. is not going to leave until the (Iraqi) government wants us to leave and when the job is done," Snow said. "As Iraqis become more able, obviously the U.S. will move back to support roles and at some point the U.S. is going to be able to withdraw."

report: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060618/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq


So now Iraqis are in charge of our forces?

[lectrobyte]

1. We're not leaving. We didn't build 14 bases, and the largest

U.S. embassy in the world for nothing.

[Wetzelbill]

7. exactly

nor did we privatize the whole economy and do things like protect copyrights etc, just to get up and leave. As long as we have business their we will never fully leave. Not going to happen.

[Roland99]

2. Didn't a Sunni Leader just ask the US to leave?!?!?

I guess the *right* people have to ask the US to leave.



:banghead:

[JuniperLea]

3. Wear on a nation?

What about the millions of us who were against this illegal, unconstitutional war from the beginning?

[nolies32fouettes]

15. I'll support it when He, Cheney, Rummy, Rove, and Bush's twins

all go and do their patriotic duy in Iraq.

[ananda]

4. Also, Snowjob actually said..

.. that even though Americans are not happy with the war, they
really want us to win.

Well, this American know for a fact that this war cannot be won.

So, yeah, it's time to cut n run.

Yes, I said CUT N RUN! It's the only right thing to do, since going
there in the first place was wrong, criminal, and stoooppiddd.

Sue

[stellanoir]

5. translation. . .

He's "the decider" who bases nothing even remotely on the will of the people.

[idgiehkt]

6. wtf

The iraqi government? Lol, that's like me saying I'm not going to sit on my ass until my ass wants me to sit on it...what a joke.

[Cha]

8. We'll see about that

ASSHOLE! WE pay your salary, LIAR!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Note to Snowd..... which Iraqis??? The ones we support now,

or the ones we supported awhile ago????? Moron.

[Terran1212]

10. Why won't his party support the Kucinich Bill then?

It would give the power to decide when the US wants to leave to the Iraqi Parliament.

So far it has recieved very little support even from within Democrats let alone Republicans (although the "Libertarian" Republican Ron Paul co-sponsored it).

[bigtree]

12. ambivalent about that myself

Bush is hiding behind Maliki's coerced support of our occupation. We should heed their calls for us to leave, but if they say stay, we should take charge of our own and leave anyway.

[peacetalksforall]

11. There you have it, folks. The admission. The deduction -

The Saud families are close friends with the Bush families, PNAC, oil companies.
o bin Laden is a part of the Saud Family.
o the Saud families are friends and partners with our oil companies
o bin Laden was a good friend of ours in the Afghan-Russia war.
o we have supported bin Laden in the past
o bin Laden was CIA, according to some
o bin Laden has not been caught
o bin Laden was escorted out of danger by our military, according to some

soooooo

if bin Laden is a friend of Bush, PNAC, CIA, and oil companies -\

that means we are to blame for the Iraq War.

Then, when you factor Israel and the UK (and their history and obvious mission) you add to the rational. Yep - we are responsible.
As figured out a long time ago, Tony. What a lame propagandist!

[icymist]

13. Hey Snow! BLOW!

eom

[Metta]

14. It's all a deflection to distract us. They do what they want.

What we want clearly doesn't matter.