Bush more optimistic about Iraq than assessments by intelligence community

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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/260/politics/Bush_more_optimistic_about_Ira:.shtml

WASHINGTON (AP) While a new intelligence estimate offers a gloomy assessment of Iraq's future, President Bush talks instead about brighter days ahead under a new prime minister and the promise of free elections. ''Freedom is on the march,'' he told a campaign rally Thursday.

Iraq is a daily theme of Bush's campaign speeches, often a springboard for attacking Democratic rival John Kerry. But Bush does not speak about the more than 1,000 U.S. deaths, the highly publicized kidnappings, executions and beheadings, or the dark scenarios outlined in the highly classified National Intelligence Estimate that was presented to him in late July.

The new report offers a sobering picture of Iraq's future in terms of political, economic and security conditions.

In a worst-case scenario, it envisions developments pointing to a civil war among Iraq's three major populations, the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

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[Larkspur]

1. Bush has "Faith-based Intelligence"

What else does he need? :shrug:

[meti57b]

2. bush is in early stage alzheimers. He says what they tell him to say.

[truth2power]

3. Haven't we been down this road before?

Bush didn't believe the intelligence about there being no WMDs. Now here we go again.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[Penndems]

10. He didn't pay any attention to the pre-9/11 intelligence, either

Why the hell would he bother reading or listening to a status briefing on the deteriorating situation in Iraq? Ah, I remember . . . he doesn't want reality intruding on his delusional, fourth-dimension world.

Those anti-depressants he's ingesting are DEFINITELY doing their job.

[NoMoreChimp]

4. Iraq is a failure

We lost. Get rid of Bush, and get the occupiers out of Iraq.

[AlCzervik]

5. In other news..Bush still thinks he won the election.

Ignorance is the country and Bsuh is it's King.

[Infomaniac]

6. Fantasy World

That's the nice thing about living in a fantasy world. You can believe garbage that is absolutely total bushshit.

[lapfog_1]

7. Ummm, "on the march" is not the best choice of words

given the situation in Iraq these days.

[NJGeek]

8. I wonder why

Dumbya is a MISERABLE FAILURE.

F HIM

GO JOHN KERRY GO

[yardwork]

9. Bush isn't intelligent? That's not breaking news

Oops. Misread the title a wee bit <snort chuckle snort>

[Disturbed]

11. Delusional, arrogant, spoiled, dimbulb..

just for starters.

[Eye and Monkey]

12. Dem ad "Bush on the deck of an aircraft carrier...''Mission Accomplished"

from the cited article:

"The Democratic Party, in a new television ad attacking Bush's credibility, asked, ''How can you solve problems when you won't even admit they're there?'' The ad shows Bush on the deck of an aircraft carrier declaring an end to major combat in Iraq under a ''Mission Accomplished'' banner in May 2003."

Heh heh heh - Karl & Karen, ya blew that one. Thanks for spending taxpayer dollars to provide the Dems with the hammer.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. kick

[LynnTheDem]

14. bush; totally out of touch. Still.

Biggest idiot, buggest FLIP-FLOPPER, dumb as dirt, and totally out of touch with reality.

No wonder rightwingnuts worship him.

[JoFerret]

15. BushWorld versus RealWorld

In today's NYTimes columnist Bob Herbert writes:
...
Three more marines were killed yesterday in Iraq. Kidnappings are commonplace. The insurgency is growing and becoming more sophisticated, which means more deadly. Ordinary Iraqis are becoming ever more enraged at the U.S.

When the newscaster David Brinkley, appalled by the carnage in Vietnam, asked Lyndon Johnson why he didn't just bring the troops home, Johnson replied, "I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war."

George W. Bush is now trapped as tightly in Iraq as Johnson was in Vietnam. The war is going badly. The president's own intelligence estimates are pessimistic. There is no plan to actually win the war in Iraq, and no willingness to concede defeat.

I wonder who the last man or woman will be to die for this colossal mistake.

[Career Prole]

16. This is a REALLY big story, IMO...the evidence is clear shrub is lying to

voters. I wish there was going to be a debate tonight. The fool gets a completely dire NIE in July, the situation has demonstrably gotten worse since he received the report, yet he still insists everything is fine.
I'd love to see him have to debate this tonight on TV. It would be the perfect kickoff to the weekend.

:kick:

[tom_paine]

17. Who DARES question Der Fuhrer?!?

Dear God in Heaven, it is happening AGAIN!