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Other spins: "Bush Seeks to Rally GOP Around Iraq Plan" (later headline from AP); "Bush Rallies Worried Republicans on Capitol Hill" (Reuters).
This rare meeting seems to be becoming an annual event.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sought to rally Republican lawmakers around his Iraq plan Thursday, saying Iraqis are ready to "take the training wheels off" by assuming some political power, but warning that violence is likely to worsen as that transfer approaches.The president made a rare visit to Capitol Hill as lawmakers prepare to head to their home states for the Memorial Day recess.
"This has been a rough couple of months for the president, particularly on the issues of Iraq, and I think he was here to remind folks that we do have a policy and this policy is going to be tough," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. "Things, as I think he commented, are very likely to get worse before they get better."
But later
It was the second year in a row that Bush met behind closed doors exclusively with his fellow Republicans just ahead of the congressional Memorial Day break. The stakes were especially high this year: Bush and most lawmakers face re-election, and Iraq is still plagued by chaos and violence six weeks before the United States cedes some power to Iraqis.
Posted by Robert at May 20, 2004 12:24 PM
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Yeah! I'm first. I think that the training wheels was a little bit dumb, perhaps it's the newspaper talking. Iraqis know how to take care of themselves, just take a look at their blogs. And they like Americans, so people like Zeyad and Omar and Ays should be the ones that they take their polls from.
Go here for all the links: healingiraq.blogspot.com
Posted by: Ibn Rushd at May 20, 2004 12:31 PMRalph Peters just published a brilliant editorial in the NY Post called "Kill Faster!" that I think is a must read for anyone interested in the interplay between the media and the military.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/21201.htm
Posted by: Bob Owens at May 20, 2004 12:54 PMBob ,
been there done that! The thing now is to help the Iraqis help themselfs they are being attacked by these monsters too! We have to help them get out this ratical Islam! the Ukrain.s ran away what did the russians tell them?
If the monsters who want to use saddamn's cem. weapons. IT Will kill more Iraqis than Americans and the monsters don't care about other Mulsums. Remember the cem. bomb did not mix right or there would have been many dead Iraqis
This is doable we just have to keep Faith in our Marines and others they are doing a great job. It is the U.S. press that has lost their way and Forgot how to be Americans.
Part of the Americane Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and All who fight with her give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
John F. Kerry's gonna win
Ho, ho, I don't think so,
His daughter dresses like a ho.
Guys:
The Muslims have already TAKEN OVER the May 15 "Berg had Qur'an..." thread.
Posted by: CGW at May 20, 2004 6:40 PMCGW,
This isn't a game played for points, friend. Don't worry about it. Unless my newness here puts me way off the mark, this site is about enlightening poeple to the dangers of Islamic Jihad. We have these discussions. Most times we make the most sense.
People learn.
We win. One reader at a time.
Posted by: Bob Owens at May 20, 2004 8:08 PMBob Owens:
I'm just irritated that they've turned it into their own personal forum to promulgate their cult. We need some big guns over there.
Posted by: CGW at May 20, 2004 8:28 PMWell, until Immigration says I can work, I'm stuck with the comp, my drawing and my writing. Oh and my Wife *s* If I go to another site, it'll be the comp all day. I shall do my best to support you guys here.
Posted by: Gary at May 20, 2004 8:37 PMHave gun. Will travel.
Posted by: Bob Owens at May 21, 2004 12:20 AMThe Q'uran is incompatible with secular democracy.
So..........Iraq can either give up the so-called "faith" or bide its time until the next dictator shows up.
The U.S. should stop its insistence, especially in the face of the historical and cultural facts, that every nation on earth must give up its sovereignty and join the New World Order.
That would take more bloodshed than we have Americans.
Cripes.
Posted by: peggy at May 21, 2004 3:19 PMThe beginning of the end for American Empire...
All past emprires have ended up in same way that America is now hell belt on following...
1. Loss of purpose
2. Violence
3. Debauchery
The process may take 50 100 years but it has definitely begun... its roots are deep in American culture and go far back in our history..
All Empires ultimately die...
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI!!!!
Posted by: Hernand Behn at May 24, 2004 4:57 AMOf course, don't let the fact that we AREN'T an empire get in the way of your argument...
Posted by: Bob Owens at May 24, 2004 5:47 PMIt always amazes me that people who live in a country a little more than two hundred years old feel they are qualified to disparage Mohammed(pbuh)Islam and noble Arabic cultures that have survived for thousands of years. Little people of the hedonistic west, you are but a decadent blip on the radar of history.
Even Rome will outlast you.
The citizens in your own country, your neighbors insist the name of God be removed from public as if it were something shameful whilst they sodomize their brothers.
American liberalism yearns to turn their men into women and their girls into prostitutes.
Look at your immodest 13 year old girls with bare midriff, trousers exposing under garments, makeup and cynical expression. They are used up, worn out and have lost their virtue.
Like most of you.
Cannibalizing eachother is not enough for you. You insist on devouring Muslims of Iraq in the name of democracy and freedom. And while you salute eachother your perverted armies torture and humiliate the Iraqi people.
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