Bush: No Promises On Troop Withdrawals

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

(AP) President Bush declined Saturday to repeat promises made by others in his administration that more U.S. troops will return home from Iraq than scheduled before he leaves office.

Decisions about troop cuts beyond those now planned through July would be based on generals' recommendations, the president said.

"There is going to be enormous speculation," he said in a joint appearance at his ranch with Denmark's prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. But, Bush said, "My sole criteria is that whatever we do, it ought to be in the context of success."


President Bush at a news conference at his ranch in Crawford, Texas today, said he would not promise that troop levels in Iraq would be cut before he left office. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

He did suggest strongly that Iraq's provincial elections in October will require bringing more troops home to wait until after the voting.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/01/national/main3896087.shtml

[Akoto]

1. Of course not. The only thing he ever guarantees is vetos. n/t

[Turbineguy]

2. Oh, sorry....

I read "...no premises.."

[Owl]

3. Blah

[Thor_MN]

4. "My sole criteria is that whatever we do, it ought to be in the context of success."

How the hell does he get out of bed in the morning? This moron could screw up putting his feet on the floor. Has he accomplished even one success in his entire life?

[RedSock]

5. he's been very successful

look at all he's been able to do in such a short period of time.

he's been able to do anything he wants -- with almost no opposition.

for what bush/cheney have wanted to do, they have been extraordinarily competent and successful.

[Thor_MN]

7. Well, I was defining success as being that which is good in the long term for all of us

Some of the problems of today's society can be laid at feet of greed. There seems to be less concern paid to the needs of the community and more paid to personal gain. "I got mine" makes one feel successful in the short term, but at what cost in the long term?

Everything that Bush has, was handed to him. He has not succeeded at anything in his life. He's been given opportunities left and right to do things and he's managed to turn them into piles of dung.

The man is a miserable failure. School children of the future will ponder what was wrong with the United States at the turn of the century that they could put such a colossal screw-up into the office of President twice.

[LynnTheDem]

6. Dear troops; by now the majority of you know you have been/are being

BETRAYED.

Time you took the matter into your own hands.

“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC”