In Speech Tonight, Bush Will Lay Out Long-Term Plan To Stay In Iraq

[babylonsister]

Breathtaking chutzpah. :grr: :grr:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/13/bush-russert/

In Speech Tonight, Bush Will Lay Out Long-Term Plan To Stay In Iraq

In his “eighth” major Iraq speech, President Bush will tonight endorse the Gen. David Petraeus’s plan to stay 9-10 years in Iraq, prolonging the escalation until next summer. Bush will falsely allege that he supports “redeployment” from Iraq, heralding the strategy as “a way to bring a divided America together.” From exerpts of tonight’s speech:

These Iraqi leaders have asked for an enduring relationship with America. And we are ready to begin building that relationship.

Today, NBC’s Tim Russert added further details about Bush’s “long-term commitment” to Iraq:

At the end of 2008, by the best calculations, there will be anywhere from ninety to 110,000 troops still in Iraq. And if in fact there’s going to be this long term strategic relationship, that number will necessarily have to go down, but it indicates that we are in Iraq for the long, long haul.

Watch it at link~

So what would Americans have to commit to Bush’s long-term plan? Today, the Center for American Progress offered a “conservative projection,” suggesting that “we could well suffer between 8,220 and 11,167 additional deaths” and potentially 59-80,000 wounded.

Furthermore, despite three different scenarios on troop levels (70,000, 100,000, and 130,000), each adds up to well over $1 trillion in tax dollars spent on the war by FY2017.



As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated, “The Bush-Petraeus plan of 130,000 Americans in Iraq for 10 more years is not a reduction in our footprint; it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to call that a new direction.”

[TahitiNut]

1. "These Iraqi leaders..."??? Including the one just killed?

(Sheesh!) Good luck Smirk.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

2. Bloodshed Uber Alles and War Without End

Say umm Nancy? TAKE AWAY HIS CHECKBOOK and then you can talk to us about insults and intelligence.

[backscatter712]

3. Why is this brainstem still in office?

Everyone, including the Republicans, hates his guts now, with the exception of the Kool-Aid drinking 23%.

I don't know why we put up with him.

[swag]

4. We're going to need another wall

[tridim]

5. And we should force Bush to carve every name of every soldier he has killed. nt

[babylonsister]

10. Even that possibility is so sad when we could stop this madness.

:cry:

[NanceGreggs]

6. I believe you've just initiated a new DU Forum ...

... "Breathtaking chutzpah. :grr: :grr:"




(Note to DU Admins: Do we have enough bandwidth for this new forum?)

[babylonsister]

8. !! Nah, I think we'd reach the end of the internets! nt

[NanceGreggs]

9. Yeah, you're probably right ...

This series of tubes can only handle so much traffic - and GOP BS tends to clog the internetz arteries quicker than anything else ...

[Chipper Chat]

7. Sickening.

Heil Hitler II

[swag]

11. Kicked and recommended