AP: Bush hopes to buy time for Iraq strategy (What Iraq strategy?!)

[BurtWorm]

The strategy of turning the problem of Iraq over to the next several administrations? That one already seems to be working. :grr:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq


By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - By promising that the extra combat troops sent to Iraq will come home next year if conditions allow, President Bush hopes to buy enough patience from politicians and the public for success to bloom in that fractured, violent country.

The president's pitch for more time — which has aggravated Democrats as well as many rank-and-file Republicans — was scheduled for a televised address at 9 p.m. EDT Thursday. Aides chose the Oval Office, the White House's most formal, presidential setting, for the 18-minute speech.

Not willing to wait, Senate Democrats were already discussing legislation to limit the mission of U.S. forces in Iraq. By limiting troops to training Iraq's military and police, protecting U.S. assets and fighting terrorists while not setting a deadline to end the war, Democrats hoped to attract enough Republicans to bring such a proposal to a vote.

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.

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[Rob H.]

1. If Plan A failed, and Plan B was to make Plan A work,

this must mean we're on Plan C: making Plans A and B work. :sarcasm:

We're never leaving Iraq while this stupid monkey fuck is still in office--at this point he's just running out the clock. The least he could do is man up and admit it, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

[pansypoo53219]

2. plan c?

is he on a new plan? or is it like plan h?

seems like just the same and run out the clock.

[NewJeffCT]

3. It's pretty obvious what Bush's strategy is

He wants to "run out the clock" on his presidency and not be the one in charge when that last helicopter takes the last troops out of Iraq. Everything he is doing is to buy just a little more time. And, in 20-30-40 years, the history textbooks will state, "And US troops were withdrawn from Iraq under President Gore." (or whomever)