Generals: Bush level-headed in evaluating Iraq policy - "very engaged" and "very sober-minded"

[Kadie]

whooosh.... good to hear he is level-headed, engaged, and sober-minded

Generals: Bush level-headed in evaluating Iraq policy
Updated 12/12/2006 11:25 AM ET

By David Jackson, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — President Bush, whose series of high-level meetings on Iraq includes a videoconference today with military leaders in Iraq, is "very engaged" and "very sober-minded" in the search for new policy ideas, according to two retired Army generals who met with him on Monday.

"I found him very engaged. I think he's looking for some answers, and the impression I had was there will be some changes," said retired Gen. Wayne Downing in an interview with NBC's Today show. "I think you're going to see some new things come out."

Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey said the president was "very sober-minded" and listened "intently to different views," including a difference of opinion among the former generals over the Iraq Study Group recommendation that most combat troops could be withdrawn from Iraq by the first quarter of 2008.

Today, Bush will speak by videoconference with the senior military commanders in Iraq. On Wednesday, he will confer with senior defense officials at the Pentagon.

A senior White House official told the Associated Press today that Bush now is "more likely" to lay out his plans on Iraq to the nation after Christmas.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-12-bush-iraq_x.htm?csp=34

[Captain Hilts]

1. To say otherwise comes of as very "Seven Days in May"ish.

McCaffrey, for one, thinks he's a total screw up.

[Mz Pip]

2. I suspect they are

all hoping for the best and pissing Bush off by being publicly critical won't help. They are essentially kissing his ass.

It won't work. Bush will do what he wants because he listens to his gut rather than people who might actually know something.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Kadie]

4. When you have Generals

coming out and making these points about the president you would think it would make people wonder why they are stressing these points.

It is so sad, and disgusting, that our Generals have to re-assure people that the president is level-headed and sober-minded.

[verse18]

3. It's interesting that they made a point to include this adjective

"sober-minded." Is it because * is normally in a drunken stupor when evaluating national policy? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Kadie]

5. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? n/t

[spanone]

6. It doesn't make me wonder at all. It reinforces the obvious.

:hippie:

[Kadie]

8. .

Yeh. You are right. There has been more than enough evidence over the past few years.

:hi:

[spanone]

7. dupe

:hippie:

[thereismore]

9. "sober minded" - now that's special. nt