Bush Vows No Iraq Pullout, Perhaps It’s Time to Pull HIM Out of The White House
From MSNBC.COM:
Bush vows to keep forces in Iraq, rips al-Qaida
President in Baltics for NATO summit, heads to Jordan later in the week
RIGA, Latvia - The United States will not withdraw its forces from Iraq before its mission of building a stable democracy is complete, President Bush said Tuesday.
“There is one thing I’m not going to do. I am not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete,” Bush said in a keynote speech at the University of Latvia just before a summit of the NATO defence alliance.
(more here)
Our clueless President once again vowed not to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq until the “Mission is accomplished” Of course, it doesn’t help that no one is really sure what the mission is anymore, and that the mission is ever-changing, from finding WMD’s, to getting Saddam, to establishing a Jeffersonian Democracy in Iraq.
The latest mission?
To stop Islamic Extremism.
Yes that’s right, the idiot in chief still thinks the sectarian Civil War gripping Iraq is about Al-Qaida, Islamic Extremists, and Radicalism.
This is a President who didn’t even know what a Sunni and Shiite were just a few weeks before sending our troops into this huge mistake of a war, and now, 3 & 1/2 years later, he thinks the Iraqi’s fighting each other are “Islamic extremists”
Kind of reminds me of the 1860’s, when those American “extremists” were duking it out in the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam.
We have a President who is a child, who is a clueless little child who sees the world in black and white absolutes, he has no ability to learn, he is a man with zero intellectual curiosity, and quite frankly would rather go down with a sinking ship than admit he is wrong and change course.
In my mind, this most recent speech not only brings impeachment back to the table, it should make it the number one priority when the Democrats take back congress in January.
It’s time to remove incompetence from the White House.
restless — On 11-28-2006 at 11:05 am
The Dems must use the threat of impeachment to bring things back into balance. Today’s article by Glenn Greenwald (http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/next-two-years.html) brings this point home in great detail:
“Democrats replaced Republicans in Congress as a result of the midterm election but nobody has replaced Dick Cheney and George Bush. And they see Congress as irrelevant.”
“It is good to hear Democrats talking about their intentions to investigate and to exercise oversight and impose limits on the administration’s behavior, but it is vital that they recognize that doing that is not going to happen easily. It will require some extremely contentious confrontations and very difficult fights to enforce the rule of law.”
This is a critical moment in history. Cheney, Professor Yoo, Bush, Gonzales are saying: we are beholden to no one. Cheney has been pushing for an authoritarian president throughout most of his career. These men are planning other invasions (Iran, Syria). They will not be stopped by timidity. Popular opinion wants a change. This is an unpopular government pushing us further into unpopular causes using unpopular and unlawful means to do so. They will not stop, until they are stopped, literally stopped by action of the people given a mandate to stop them in the most recent elections. Directly.
restless — On 11-28-2006 at 11:16 am
[I reposted this without the http so that it would come in sooner and also to add another source, see below]
The Dems must use the threat of impeachment to bring things back into balance. Today’s article by Glenn Greenwald (glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/next-two-years.html) brings this point home in great detail:
“Democrats replaced Republicans in Congress as a result of the midterm election but nobody has replaced Dick Cheney and George Bush. And they see Congress as irrelevant.”
“It is good to hear Democrats talking about their intentions to investigate and to exercise oversight and impose limits on the administration’s behavior, but it is vital that they recognize that doing that is not going to happen easily. It will require some extremely contentious confrontations and very difficult fights to enforce the rule of law.”
This is a critical moment in history. Cheney, Professor Yoo, Bush, Gonzales are saying: we are beholden to no one. Cheney has been pushing for an authoritarian president throughout most of his career. These men are planning other invasions (Iran, Syria). They will not be stopped by timidity. Popular opinion wants a change. This is an unpopular government pushing us further into unpopular causes using unpopular and unlawful means to do so. They will not stop, until they are stopped, literally stopped by action of the people given a mandate to stop them in the most recent elections. Directly.
“Make no mistake: President Bush will have to bomb Iran’s nuclear facility’s before leaving office.” -neocon Joshua Muravchik
Seymour Hersh, the journalist closest to the hidden workings of the Bush administration has just published an article in the New Yorker entitled, The Next Act. Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?” This is what will happen, folks.
For more on this read Trey Ellis’ blog post on the possibly reasons the last anti-neocon in Condi Rice’s office just resigned (www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/what-does-zelikow-know-th_b_35057.html).
Porter Venn — On 11-28-2006 at 11:46 am
It’s time to have them yanked. After the election 3 weeks ago, when Bush sacked Rumsfeld, I thought…well.. .maybe he’s seen the light, lets see if we can work with these guys. This BS speech today proved to me that Bush still has his head stuck in the sand, it’s time to remove them and clean this mess up once and for all.