Bush Asks Patience From U.S. on Iraq War

[Gman]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush pleaded for Americans' patience Wednesday on what he conceded was "a very discouraging day" of death and violence for U.S. troops in Iraq. He urged Iraqis to defy terrorist threats and vote in Sunday's elections.

Bush held a White House news conference hours after more than 30 American troops perished in a helicopter crash in western Iraq and insurgents killed five others in the deadliest day yet for U.S. forces. The deaths pushed the American toll above 1,400.

Unwavering in the course he has set, Bush pledged: "We'll have the troop levels necessary to complete the mission. And that mission is to enable Iraq to defend herself from terrorists - homegrown or terrorists that come in from outside of the country." He made clear that Iraq is nowhere near ready to handle its own security, and he talked about U.S. involvement over the next year.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050126/D87S28B81.html

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Patience my ass.

[Cha]

1. Fuck him...he didn't have any "patience" when

it came to bombing the SHYTE outta Iraq!!

[KansDem]

8. I say "F*ck him" too...

Where was his "patience" with the UN inspectors?

Where was his "patience" when Iraq told him it had no WMDs?

Where was his "patience" with "old" Europe?

Where was his "patience" when confronted by critics?

I say, "F*ck him." If its bad PR he's worried about, then let him swing...

[jasmeel]

2. What does he know about patience!! n/t

[EVDebs]

3. Puppydog media isn't even mentioning "5 years" or "10 to 20 yrs" it'll be

"The Republicans' bizarre parallel universe "

http://www.iht.com/articles/537205.html

Here we find Sen John McCain saying that we're in for between "ten to twenty years"; however, in Gen Tommy Frank's book he tells us that we are there for only "five" more years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3540414.stm

PATIENCE ????? SPECIFICS AND AN EXIT STRATEGY FIRST !!!!

[Bemis]

4. OK, I'll give him the same patience..

that he and his cohorts gave Scott Ritter and Hans Blitz.



Sorry time's up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tamyrlin79]

6. That was my first thought, too.

"I'll be as patient with him as he was with the U.N. weapons inspectors."

[bowens43]

5. F*ck you bush.

You murdered another 36 Americans today and no telling how many innocent Iraqis.

[TexasLawyer]

7. This from the guy who

couldn't wait for 4 months for the U.N. weapons inspectors before ordering a unilateral attack on a sovereign nation.

[VegasWolf]

9. LOL. No, bush wants US to have patience, not himself. n/t

[Ravy]

10. It is spelled "patients". The VA is full of them due to his policies(n/t)

[katinmn]

11. Pleaded? That piece of crap didn't plead

he was as nervous as could be. He smirked, talked nervously, and rambled on, but he sure didn't plead. It's against his nature to ask for anything. He just takes.

[truth2power]

15. My first thought, too. That arrogant, nasty little f*ck

has never pleaded for anything in his life.

I'd like to see him at the Hague, pleading for them not to throw his sorry ass in prison for the rest of his life!

[Emboldened Chimp]

12. It's been almost two years, assface...

and the violence keeps getting worse.

Fuck this guy.

[yorkiemommie1]

13. oh.... please....

gimme more time to send your children, NOT MINE!, nuh-uh, off to war and death. gimme more time to muck things up even more than i have, if that's even possible. it's all for FREEdom and LIBERTY, and ..

being president is hard work!

(sarcasm and loathing off)

every funeral should be attended by either bush, or cheney, or rumsfeld or rice or any of their shadow government. each wounded should not only be visited by (that's a photo op) but assisted and cared for by one of these jackals.

[osaMABUSh]

14. I have two words for Bush

FW

[GetTheRightVote]

16. The time for patience is over big *, it is time to end this war period

Bring Our Troops Home Now !!!!

:kick:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. Who has Photoshop and knows how to use it?

This reminds me of the cartoon with the vultures sitting on the tree branch and the one says "patience my ass, I want to kill something!" Someone needs to do that with *'s face on one vulture and Cheney's on the other......

[ladjf]

18. 1400 American dead, 11000 wounded, 100,000+ Iraqis dead

240+ billion spent, hatred being generated around the world about a war that was started based on callous lies, oh yes, we really need to
be patient.

Is he kidding? What a horrible and cynical joke!

[Bluzmann57]

19. There's been way too much "patience" already

at least from some of the electorate. People dying and getting maimed every fucking day, some soldiers, some not, it doesn't matter. They are dead and the occupation is illegal. Bring our troops back home and end the illegal occupation NOW!

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. Floundering stammering nincompoop just needs a little more time

Sure chimp, your gop government isn't going to admit how stupid they were to support this thing, so it will simply drag on for years and years.

[MasonJar]

21. What Iraq War? Wasn't that Mission Accomplished in May 2003?

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. What does he have to worry about? His constituents have all kinds

of clever ways to shut themselves off to a soldier dying. It's not just me thinking this. I just talked to a dad whose daughter is in a military academy and he believes that people in this country are going to allow the casualties to run up to 10,000. Completely shocked me when he told me. But he says that's nothing compared to what he foresees happening with tort reform. He expects a blood bath of casualties from product defects and he doesn't believe that Americans will care about that either.

[yardwork]

41. Note enough people care - I'm hearing the same thing

but sooner or later a critical mass of caring will be reached.

Will it take 10,000 American casualties? It took 50,000 in Vietnam.

[NickB79]

23. So he admits Iraqis security forces aren't worth shit, huh?

"He made clear that Iraq is nowhere near ready to handle its own security, and he talked about U.S. involvement over the next year."

What happened to those 120,000 US-trained Iraqi police and soldiers bravely defending their country from insurgents? Oh yeah, thats right, half of them were never really trained and many of those that were defected to the insurgency when fighting broke out.

[calimary]

26. I wonder if those were some of the same ones "trained" by Bernie

Kerik...

Don't forget, he was sent over there, too, to coordinate and oversee the training of Iraqi security people, too. Actually, only for the three months or so he was forced to move while his house was being remodeled.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

24. Ef'm eom

[Art_from_Ark]

25. There's an old saying in Tennessee...

Fool me once...

[Ramsey]

27. Fuck Bush

And every ass he rode in on!

[deadparrot]

28. Us lowly ones have gotta be patient.

Him...well, someone's gotta keep the world safe for demoKKKracy...Iran's on the clock.

[superconnected]

29. patients? What are we wating for that requires patients?

I gather bush plans on continuing doing what he's doing - or making it worse- iran.

maybe he means "be patient my blood thirst republicans. The American death toll will soon hit 1500. Just be patient, it will come."

[calimary]

36. This part's certainly true. He does want our patience. He's not finished

trashing the place. Remember, he's mr. "let me finish!" That's what he whines at any (Irish) journalist who puts tough questions to him and then demands that he answer the question without sidestepping or changing the subject.

His Pentagon is not finished dotting the i's and crossing the t's on the war against Iran. His pirate buddies on the Hill aren't finished taking Social Security apart, ripping up the social safety net, the Constitution, and the Geneva Convention, skirting the law (alberto "Torture's Okay" gonzales is still making the rounds, after all), reconfiguring the Defense Department so it's full of these shadowy new entities that don't come under conventional law, destroying the rest of Iraq, and making the Middle East safe for his PNAC buddies. His cabinet secretaries need to finish figuring up new ways to buy pundits and their assorted services without detection. He still needs a little time...

Besides, it's Hard Work.

[yardwork]

42. Great rant! Do it again!

[TexasLawyer]

50. Oh Yeah!

very well said, Calimary!

[hector459]

30. Thanks to Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz 1400 US soldiers

have the ultimate patience.

[The_Casual_Observer]

31. I think it's about time that bush go over there and find out whats

going on first hand. After all, that's what would be demanded of the CEO of some company that has a division that's 200 billion in the red, isn't it? And let's start with that "triangle of death".

[NYC Liberal]

32. Fuck Commander Codpiece.

Will he be calling for 'patience' when Iraq's new theocracy tells him to get the hell out?

[VegasWolf]

33. Please, please, I don't wanna. n/t

[Gyre]

34. Fuck his chimperial majesty!

With a big red-hot chili pepper wrapped in sandpaper.:)

Gyre

[Mr_Spock]

35. Patience my ass you lying war criminal - we're gonna have you executed

for war crimes. Draw up the letters of impeachment! What are they waiting for?

[sweetheart]

44. Exactly my sentiment as well

The gallows for Mr. Patience.

He might as well be telling us to have pateince with the russian
insurgency at stalingrad... oh! ... a historical flashback!

[Deja Q]

37. After the UN and everyone else asked the US for patience?!?! If the UN

agrees to that, then we all know the UN truly iss

IRRELEVANT.

[MsMagnificent]

38. We're the US! We don't need no steen-king patience!

Oh wait -- we DO now?!

/sarcasm

[darkism]

39. No patience for you, you murderous jerk.

That's the best you can say to the families of the 1400 that died for your oil-coated lies?

What a dick. Go Cheney yourself, **.

[jazzjunkysue]

40. Patience like they afforded Clinton. Time's up! :)

[pinniped]

43. FUCK YOU terrorist!

There was a time when this piece of shit said that US casualties were an indication of our success in Iraq.

I dare this asshole to bring that stoopid line out again.

[leesa]

45. "that mission is to enable Iraq to defend herself from terrorists..."

Well, they ARE defending themselves from US terrorism. Can our troops pack up and go home now?? Mission Accomplished!

[NYC]

46. Did Iraq have a problem with terrorists before we got there?

"...And that mission is to enable Iraq to defend herself from terrorists - homegrown or terrorists that come in from outside of the country."

I don't remember hearing a thing about terrorists invading Iraq or blowing up Iraq. Does anyone?

[Chicago Democrat]

47. Precisely!

Well said my fellow Democrat

[Chicago Democrat]

48. SEIG!

HEIL!

[American Tragedy]

49. How the fuck does he have the nerve to ask US to be patient?

We wouldn't even be in this bloody mess, if he had been patient when the U.N. inspectors were in Iraq. Instead he had them expelled because he just couldn't wait to destroy that country and have us pay for it in blood and treasure for years to come. What a fucking ignorant hypocritical lying little piece of shit.

[PA Democrat]

51. I ask Bush to quantify the amount of additional "patience"

we should have? How many more body bags? How many more amputees? How much more money?

[cthrumatrix]

52. he has no desire to bring these troops home ...we know that

[LeftHander]

53. effing kick

nt