Bush says he’s open to halting troop cutbacks

[Contrary1]

I am so very sick of this excuse for a president. Clearly, he doesn't represent us. Can't we just get a long hook and pull the comedian off the stage?

"MANAMA, Bahrain - President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals.

Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.

Bush said any decision about troop levels "needs to be based upon success," but that there was no discussion about specific numbers when he was briefed by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22626192/



Chief Rabbi Metzger thanks Bush for intervening in Iraq

"During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben Gurion Airport Terminal Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked President George Bush for the US's military intervention in Iraq.

"I want to thank you for your support of Israel and in particular for waging a war against Iraq," Metzger told Bush, according to the chief rabbi's spokesman.

Bush reportedly answered that the chief rabbi's words "warmed his heart".

Metzger's stand on the Iraqi war, while reflecting the Israeli majority and Orthodox Jewry, is not shared with most US Jews. The American Jewish Committee's annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, published last year, found that 70 percent of US Jews disapprove of the Iraq war, with 28 percent backing it."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517335513&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[TwilightGardener]

1. Pull troops out, and the Surge "success" crumbles--this is what they're afraid of.

However, the Surge is officially ending in April, no matter what--don't have troops to replace those rotating out. Good luck with that, Chimperor.

[valerief]

2. He has drained the Treasury dry. nt

[Buzz Clik]

3. Is he also open to immediately stopping our lack of wars in the 191 countries we haven't invaded?

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