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Post by marked on May 1, 2007 19:59:41 GMT -5
 President Bush addresses the nation from aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1 with the banner in the background. |
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Post by unk on May 2, 2007 6:26:01 GMT -5
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Post by unk on May 2, 2007 7:57:34 GMT -5
(AP) Remarks by President Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq Thursday evening from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We are bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous. We are pursuing and finding leaders of the old regime, who will be held to account for their crimes. We have begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons, and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated. We are helping to rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself, instead of hospitals and schools. And we will stand with the new leaders of Iraq as they establish a government of, by, and for the Iraqi people. The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done. And then we will leave — and we will leave behind a free Iraq.
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 8:22:20 GMT -5
Buckley Says Bush Will Be Judged on Iraq War, Now a `Failure'
By Heidi Przybyla and Judy Woodruff
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- William F. Buckley Jr., the longtime conservative writer and leader, said George W. Bush's presidency will be judged entirely by the outcome of a war in Iraq that is now a failure.
``Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq,'' Buckley said in an interview that will air on Bloomberg Television this weekend. ``If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get him out of his jam.''
Buckley said he doesn't have a formula for getting out of Iraq, though he said ``it's important that we acknowledge in the inner councils of state that it (the war) has failed, so that we should look for opportunities to cope with that failure.''
The 80-year-old Buckley is among a handful of prominent conservatives who are criticizing the war. Asked who is to blame for what he deems a failure, Buckley said, ``the president,'' adding that ``he doesn't hesitate to accept responsibility.''
Buckley called Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a longtime friend, ``a failed executor'' of the war. And Vice President Dick Cheney ``was flatly misled,'' Buckley said. ``He believed the business about the weapons of mass destruction.''
National Review
Buckley, often called the father of contemporary conservatism in America, articulated his beliefs in National Review magazine, which he founded in 1955. His conservatism calls for small government, low taxes and a strong defense. Both Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater said they got their inspiration from the magazine.
In the interview, Buckley criticized the so-called neo- conservatives who enthusiastically embraced the Iraq invasion and the spreading of American values around the world.
``The neoconservative hubris, which sort of assigns to America some kind of geo-strategic responsibility for maximizing democracy, overstretches the resources of a free country,'' Buckley said.
While praising Bush as ``really a conservative,'' he was critical of the president for allowing expansion of the federal government and never vetoing a spending bill.
The president's ``concern has been so completely on the international scope that he can be said to have neglected conservatism'' on the fiscal level, Buckley said.
Appraising Presidents
Buckley also offered his perspectives on other recent presidents:
-- Richard Nixon ``was one of the brightest people who ever occupied the White House,'' he said, ``but he suffered from basic derangements,'' which precipitated his own downfall.
-- Ronald Reagan ``confounded the intellectual class, which disdained him.'' Every year though, Buckley said, ``there is more and more evidence of his ingenuity, of his historical intelligence.''
-- Bill Clinton ``is the most gifted politician of, certainly my time,'' Buckley said. ``He generates a kind of a vibrant goodwill with a capacity for mischief which is very, very American.'' He doubted that ``anyone could begin to write a textbook that explicates his (Clinton's) political philosophy because he doesn't really have one.''
Buckley exalted in what he sees as the conservative success stemming from his call a half century ago in the National Review to ``stand athwart history and yell stop.''
That, he remembered, was when Marxism was widely considered ``an absolute irreversible call of history.'' The folly of that notion was demonstrated by the demise of communism a decade and a half ago, he said.
Buckley said he had a few regrets, most notably his magazine's opposition to civil rights legislation in the 1960s. ``I think that the impact of that bill should have been welcomed by us,'' he said.
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 8:27:06 GMT -5
In the four years since President Bush falsely claimed victory on that aircraft carrier, the American people have been exceptionally patient. But each time the President has had an opportunity to put the interests of the American people first, he chose to let partisan politics dictate White House policy.
The President needs to replace his hollow rhetoric with action, and bring our troops home to the hero's welcome they've earned -- to the sort of welcome he promised them four years ago.
No more broken promises. The American people deserve better, and they'll get it with Democrats in control.
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 8:32:01 GMT -5
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Post by unk on May 2, 2007 8:35:08 GMT -5
Marked......you are full of it again this morning. Keep up the good work. Your stupity is showing every time you post.
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 8:50:45 GMT -5
Marked......you are full of it again this morning. Keep up the good work. Your stupity is showing every time you post. Yeah, because nothing's smarter than joking about how you lied about wmd. I'm sure the mothers of the soldiers killed by that lie thought that was hilarious. |
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 8:53:59 GMT -5
"The war is long and hard and tough. I'm not here to tell you, 'Mission accomplished,'" McCain said, distancing himself from President Bush's declaration of an end to major military actions in Iraq nearly four years ago.
The war was "terribly mismanaged" and Rumsfeld will go "down as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history," McCain said.
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Post by unk on May 2, 2007 9:17:04 GMT -5
Ya, John McCain is a liberal trying to disguise himself as a Republican. That explains all that.
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 10:22:37 GMT -5
President Bush and Vice President Cheney failed to provide US soldiers with bulletproof vests or appropriately-armored vehicles and had no serious plan for the aftermath of the war, thus demonstrating a complete disregard for the welfare of the troops and the need for proper governance of a country after occupation. The result has been a never-ending war that will cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion with over 3,000 U.S. soldiers killed and over 21,000 wounded.
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Post by unk on May 2, 2007 10:25:03 GMT -5
President Bush and Vice President Cheney failed to provide US soldiers with bulletproof vests or appropriately-armored vehicles and had no serious plan for the aftermath of the war, thus demonstrating a complete disregard for the welfare of the troops and the need for proper governance of a country after occupation. The result has been a never-ending war that will cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion with over 3,000 U.S. soldiers killed and over 21,000 wounded. < > YAH, YAH, yah. Why do you keep riding that same old horse. Why don't you get another one. |
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 10:49:39 GMT -5
President Bush and Vice President Cheney failed to provide US soldiers with bulletproof vests or appropriately-armored vehicles and had no serious plan for the aftermath of the war, thus demonstrating a complete disregard for the welfare of the troops and the need for proper governance of a country after occupation. The result has been a never-ending war that will cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion with over 3,000 U.S. soldiers killed and over 21,000 wounded. < > YAH, YAH, yah. Why do you keep riding that same old horse. Why don't you get another one.It's called a question mark, look into it. |
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Post by unk on May 2, 2007 10:54:46 GMT -5
It's called a question mark, look into it.
<> Sorry. ?
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Post by marked on May 2, 2007 10:58:26 GMT -5
President Bush and Vice President Cheney failed to provide US soldiers with bulletproof vests or appropriately-armored vehicles and had no serious plan for the aftermath of the war, thus demonstrating a complete disregard for the welfare of the troops and the need for proper governance of a country after occupation. The result has been a never-ending war that will cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion with over 3,000 U.S. soldiers killed and over 21,000 wounded. < > YAH, YAH, yah. Why do you keep riding that same old horse. Why don't you get another one.How exactly does one get over $1,000,000,000 wasted and thousands of dead and wounded Americans? |
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