VIDEO: Bush Himself Said So
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been suggesting America should leave. John McCain says otherwise, America will leave when he says America will leave. After all, he knows best. Well, remember these words from the President from a press conference May 2007:
REPORTER: You say you want nothing short of victory, that leaving Iraq would be catastrophic; you once again mentioned al Qaeda. Does that mean that you are willing to leave American troops there, no matter what the Iraqi government does?
THE PRESIDENT: We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It's their government's choice. If they were to say, leave, we would leave.
That's right everybody!
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- July 22, 2008
Barack & The Surge
Appreciate your point and I don't disagree, however, isn't this all moot? Tom Freidman notwithstanding, the Press has already moved on and so should Barack. If he revisits the issue and changes his mind, doesn't he create a whole new story, or at least give the story a whole new life? I think this is a little like Hillary not apologizing for voting for the war, but without the bite.
I believe Harriet Heartland, standing in the voter's booth on Election Day and having become recently unemployed, is not going to stop and say to herself, "Wait a minute! Didn't Barack say he was against the Surge?" No, she's going to vote for the candidate who, in her mind, will pull her out of the hole that looms before her.
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By lewisshanksJuly 23, 2008 - 10:30amShould the press move on
Should the press move on just because the public has the attention span of gnats?
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouJuly 23, 2008 - 10:39amDoes Bush understand what "sovereign" means?
I'm not sure that when you invade a country, depose its government and install a puppet government, any invitation by that puppet government can be considered valid. After all, Saddam Hussein's government did not invite the US to occupy, and Iraq was sovereign nation at the time we invaded.
How many times do we have to be asked to leave anyhow? They asked us in May 2007. They asked us in July 2008. Just because they back down under pressure doesn't mean they don't want us out.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouJuly 23, 2008 - 10:37amShhhhh! You're being
Shhhhh! You're being un-American!
-- McCain = Four more years of the same --
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By dtaylo75July 23, 2008 - 3:33pm