Bush: Iraq timeline could cause 'chaos' (From MacDill AFB in Tampa)

[seafan]

Bush: Iraq timeline could cause 'chaos'

By JENNIFER LOVEN
May 1, 2007



Gerald Herbert / AP Photo

President Bush, right, shakes hands with Iraq National Security Adviser Dr. Mowaffak Al Rubaie after making remarks at the CENTCOM Coalition Conference at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. on Tuesday, May 1, 2007.

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. --
Hours before vetoing a war spending bill, President Bush said Tuesday that Democrats who made the legislation a showdown over withdrawing U.S. troops could turn Iraq into a terror-spreading "cauldron of chaos" with their approach.
"Success in Iraq is critical to the security of free people everywhere," Bush said at the headquarters of U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, including Iraq.

The Democratic-led Congress was holding a ceremony Tuesday afternoon to send the bill to the president, and he planned to veto it soon thereafter, immediately upon his return to the White House from Florida. The White House said Bush would go before television cameras at 6:10 p.m. EDT to explain his veto, just before the evening news shows.

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Bush's appearance came exactly four years after his speech on an aircraft carrier decorated with a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner. In that address, a frequent target of Democrats seeking to ridicule the president, he declared that the Iraq front in the global fight against terrorism had been successfully completed.
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," the president said from the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, just weeks after the war began. "In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

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Four years later, with over 3,300 U.S. troops killed in Iraq and the country gripped by unrelenting violence and political uncertainty, only 35 percent of the public approves of the job the president is doing, while 62 percent disapprove, according to an April 2-4 poll from AP-Ipsos.


The anniversary prompted a protest in Tampa, Fla., not far from where Bush spoke. "He's hearing us. He's just not listening to us," said Chrystal Hutchison, who demonstrated with about two dozen others under a "Quagmire Accomplished" banner. "He's taking a hard-nosed stand here and doing what he wants regardless."

And absolutely NOTHING WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER until he is removed from power.


Speaker Pelosi, it is time.

[babylonsister]

1. Oh no, not the dreaded 'cauldron of chaos'! What exactly is it now? nt

[Kutjara]

2. Oh dear me, we wouldn't want there to be chaos in Iraq, would we?

Just imagine if Iraq fell into chaos! Why, it would be...well...erm...it would be pretty much just like it is right now. And we can't have that.

[El Supremo]

3. If it ain't chaos now WTF is it?

Georgie, why don't you sign it and make a "signing statement?" Oh, that won't work here, huh?

[BOSSHOG]

4. Going to War in Iraq could cause Chaos you fucking idiot

but no you got your fucking ignorant trash base all sexed up about war in 03 and shouted down rational minds who were trying to tell you you'll be sorry. But you don't give a fuck, you don't give a fuck about anything.

[eagler]

5. What a damned idiot ! We caused the chaos

[tabasco]

6. Why not? Chaos would be a FUCKING IMPROVEMENT, Dumbass!!

This moron still has 25% approval. Unbelievable.

[ananda]

7. c-h-a-o-s

or KAOS. Whatever.

This selected ass of a president will use any lie
or rhetoric to keep his corporate cronies in Iraq
and please his owners.

[AlCzervik]

8. It's a Calderon Chaos and not a dump truck!

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Translated: We wouldn't have any control over that oil.