Bush: All we need to win in Iraq is COURAGE and RESOLVE!

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Striking a subdued tone on the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war,
President George W. Bush pleaded for patience on Monday and warned skeptical Americans of dire consequences of a swift troop withdrawal.

With polls showing him near the weakest point of his presidency, Bush defended his Iraq policy to a nation increasingly opposed to the war and unsupportive of his drive to send in nearly 30,000 additional troops.

Bush, in a brief televised statement from the White House, appealed to Americans for more time while acknowledging: "Prevailing in Iraq is not going to be easy."..."Four years after this war began, the fight is difficult but it can be won," Bush said after a teleconference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. "It will be won if we have the courage and resolve to see it through."..

He said failure to secure Baghdad would allow a "contagion of violence" to spread. "The terrorists could emerge from the chaos with a safe haven in Iraq," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070319/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc

"Courage!"

[BOSSHOG]

1. So that's why chickenhawks aren't serving their country?

[fooj]

2. Courage? That's laughable.

All this from one of the biggest cowards on the planet...

[Ilsa]

9. Courage? Ha! His consigliere, Alberto, has managed his

scary ordeals for the last two decades. Gonzo had to "handle" Bush*'s jury summons back in Texas in the 1990's when he was governor because he would have had to list all of his convictions. Bush has no courage.

[DRoseDARs]

3. Mr. President, all the clapping in the world isn't going to save this fairy named Iraq. n/t

[IWantAChange]

4. Somehow I knew - We the People - are gonna lose this version of VietNam

Chimpy truly is a visionary - SOMEBODY PLEASE TURN ON THE LIGHTS FOR THIS BOZO.

[Rob H.]

5. "...the fight is difficult but it can be won."

It's good to get updates from Bizarro Earth every once in a while! :sarcasm:

[hobbit709]

6. All we need to win in Iraq is COURAGE and RESOLVE!

Well, he's done used up the military and money so that's all he's got left. He should have plenty of both since he's never used any of his own.:sarcasm:

[Jim Warren]

7. and to finish looting the treasury

of the American people.

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. This idiot is ruining our country. Read some history, idiot!

Start with The History of the Peloponnesian War, and read Pericle's Speeches and read what happened to one of the greatest civilizations in recorded history, a civilization that our very government owes a tremendous debt to, and one from which we can still learn. (Oh, but I forget. Your own father, whose intelligence makes yours seem non-existent, couldn't even pronounce the author's name Thucydide's in his own speech!)

[ChickMagic]

10. Surprisingly coherent

He really IS a sub dude!!!

[AndyA]

11. All we need is COURAGE and RESOLVE?

What about troops?

Money?

Equipment?

A belief that we have any business over there in the first place?

What about a plan to redeploy our troops and bring them home?

Mr. *, it takes more than courage and resolve. A LOT more.

Are you on the same planet as the rest of us?

[Cabcere]

17. If I may play "devil's advocate" here for a minute

(and I do mean that "devil" part...), I'd like to offer some possible Bushite responses to your relevant and insightful queries (because, since they are relevant and insightful, you KNOW Chimpy and his buddies aren't going to get anywhere NEAR them):

What about troops? - What about them? Don't you SUPPORT OUR TROOPS™? You know, when you question their mission, you're undermining them...not to mention being unpatriotic. Duh.

Money? - Yeah, money's good; there's lots of money in oil, y'know. Heh heh heh.

Equipment? - MINE'S BIGGER!!11!!!!1!!1!

A belief that we have any business over there in the first place? - We're bringin' FREEDUMB!1!!1!!!11!! And DUMBOCRACY!!11!!!1!!1!! *cough* Uh, I mean "freedom" and "democracy." They'll greet us as liberators! (Only I think maybe the Iraqis are greetin' us as libruls instead, 'cause they don't seem to like us much. Yeah, that must be it. Think so, Uncle Dick?)

What about a plan to redeploy our troops and bring them home? - Why don't you SUPPORT OUR TROOPS™? Why do you want to "slow bleed" and "undermine" them?!? WHY DO YOU HATE 'MURCA???!!?


(This shouldn't be necessary, but just in case the tone of this message got lost somewhere in the vast series of tubes that makes up the internets: :sarcasm: )

[WinkyDink]

12. I've got 2 numbers for Bush: 1941-1945.

[sakabatou]

13. ::headdesk::

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. Still fighting a hot war 5 years later that we supposedly won 4 years ago.

Read me another story jr!

"six days, six weeks, I doubt six months"

[ComerPerro]

15. and all you need to fly is pixie dust and happy thoughts

[WinkyDink]

16. Is Bush implying our TROOPS LACK THESE QUALITIES?

[Cabcere]

18. Ooooh! That's a good question...is he guilty of...

*gasp* NOT SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS? :wow: It sure sounds like it, doesn't it?

[Virginia Dare]

21. He's implying that the American people lack these qualities...

since the majority of us want to pull out of Iraq.

[WinkyDink]

22. Let's use it against him anyway!

[Bluebear]

30. =)

[newyawker99]

19. *yawn* Ho hum.

:boring:

[Hubert Flottz]

20. Well why does he want all that money then?

[TK421]

23. Well...I will say that Resolve is REALLY GOOD at getting tough stains

out of carpets, but how is that going to help the situation in Iraq? :wtf:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. All the blood stains?

That must have been what he was talking about, but I don't know how well it works on hands.

[blues90]

24. All we need in Iraq

Was not to have gone into there in the first place . That damn bush and cheney , the damn entire crew of thiefs and murdering bastard freaks including the corporations selling our jobs off shore . From one end to the other we have been systematically sold out , murdered and starved and screwed .

Fuck them and funk this mad house they have turned the USA into . May an earwick find it's way into each and everyone of their sick minds .

[Johonny]

26. courage, resolve and

about 100 billion in no bid contracts to my friends companies.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

27. Translation: "This is an open-ended quagmire with no end in sight"

If Bush could remain in office for ten more years, he'd be saying the same thing as he's about to leave office.

[dkofos]

28. And a few hundred BILLION DOLLARS for my friends

[Bluebear]

29. EXactly. nt

[Jack Sprat]

31. So let's get those twins outfitted in

a nice desert-khaki twill uniform and hustle them on over for some action. CNN can film the Bush twins in combat to inspire the rest of us with Courage and Resolve. The old American Legion veterans would get a nut off on that.