Bush: "We're going to win."

[sabra]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/095rxgyi.asp

'We're Going to Win'
The president finally has a plan for victory.
by Fred Barnes

It turns out you only have to attend a White House Christmas party to find out where President Bush is headed on Iraq. One guest who shook hands with Bush in the receiving line told him, "Don't let the bastards get you down." Bush, slightly startled but cheerful, replied, "Don't worry. I'm not." The guest followed up: "I think we can win in Iraq." The president's reply was emphatic: "We're going to win." Another guest informed Bush he'd given some advice to the Iraq Study Group, and said its report should be ignored. The president chuckled and said he'd made his position clear when he appeared with British prime minister Tony Blair. The report had never mentioned the possibility of American victory. Bush's goal in Iraq, he said at the photo-op with Blair, is "victory."

Now Bush is ready to gamble his presidency on a last-ditch effort to defeat the Sunni insurgency and establish a sustainable democracy in Iraq. He is prepared to defy the weary wisdom of Washington that it's too late, that the war in Iraq is lost, and that Bush's lone option is to retreat from Iraq as gracefully and with as little loss of face as possible. Bush only needed what his press secretary, Tony Snow, called a "plan for winning." Now he has one.

[spanone]

1. He has no 'presidency' to gamble. It's over Junior.

[Kelly Rupert]

2. We're winning. No, we're not. But we're not losing.

Well, we're just not winning fast enough. Okay, we're not winning. But we're going to win.

And around and around he goes...

[thereismore]

3. Yeah, like they were going to win the election. nt

[NoAmericanTaliban]

4. The only thing he is winning is the war on the middle class

This is like Vietnam all over again. Last ditch effort to win the war. All we need is more troops & less liberal media. Wonder is those shaking his hand have been to Iraq or served in the military. Probably just
keyboard kommandos :)

[senseandsensibility]

5. Fred Barnes is out of his mind.

"He only needed a plan for winning?" And NOW he has one.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: We needed a PLAN for winning in Iraq four years ago. He has one NOW? Barnes is so medicated or congenitally stupid that he thinks this is impressive.

[musette_sf]

11. remember his gushing paean to Butchie?

"Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush"

i think Freddie knew when Jeff Gannon was on his WH "sleepovers", if you know what i mean*. "Beadle" is just too, too enamored of Butchie, and not in a Hail Fellow Well Met kind of way.

* not that there's anything wrong with that

[WI_DEM]

6. "Don't let the bastards get you down" same thing some Nixon loyalists

told the Dick.

[Nutmegger]

7. Win what? The high school football game?

People are dying day after day and the pukes treat it as if it's a competing game. :mad::grr:

[damntexdem]

8. Sounds like the same plan he's had all along.

It will likely work just as poorly as it has all along.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. "Don't let the bastards get you down" Apparently, 70% of America is

comprised of bastards. That's nice to know.

[rodeodance]

10. all he needs now is his pom poms

[Bluebear]

12. Grand. Define the "win", you monkey. nt