Bush urges Iraq-war allies to stick with U.S.

[GoBlue]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday urged European allies to stick with the United States in Iraq, and the White House said it may seek a new U.N. resolution to help persuade Spain not to withdraw its troops.

http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4580901

[historian]

1. UN resolution???

Oh now we want the UN to join in? They should tell chimp to sit on it!

[revcarol]

13. They already told Bush to sit on it!!

He wants the U. S. to be in CONTROL of the troops, the oil, the rpivatization of everything in the country,and the "reconstruction" contracts.

Kofi Annan told him to stuff it.

BTW, Honduras quit today.

[pfitz59]

2. "Get back on the Titanic..now!

I'm the Captain, dammit! I don't see no stinking iceberg!"

[bluedog]

3. kinda like

closing the gate after the horses got out huh bushie?

[Beetwasher]

4. What a Putz! What Gall! Crawling to the UN Again!

Oh the irony...

[chelsea0011]

5. Great! Let them commit 100,000 troups

[tlcandie]

6. So, now Spain will be bullied the world over for this decision!!!

Reminds me of children calling others sissies, wimps, etc. I say let 'em!

Disgusting! Spain made the right choice for the right reason and to hell with everyone else who thinks or believes otherwise! Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do and say screw off idiots!

[rocktivity]

7. Are the Dutch wavering?

Honduras says they are also out if the UN isn't in by June 30.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Skidmore]

8. If the rest of the world is as smart as I think it is, they should

start playing hardball with this arrogant sob and tell him take his stupid war and shove it. They should also turn on him and tell him to take his fake Texas hiney back to Crawford and cut brush.

[montanacowboy]

9. the Dominos are falling

Honduras is pulling out too (if UN doesn't take over) - more will follow - the people of Poland, Italy and Britin need to start demanding their troops be withddrawn.

On another note - article in NYT about gas prices -- seems someone from Oppenheimer says because of our "cowboy mentality" we screwed Venezula and now watch out for much higher gas prices..

Just like Chimpy - winning so mannnnnnnnnnnnny friends around the globe...

[llmart]

10. Oh, who needs Old Europe anyways????

Ha ha ha ha ha. Chimpy's getting his comeuppance and he's having a shit fit. Ask me if I care. Like we even had a coalition to start with. The rest of the world would be smart if they would all show the US that might doesn't make right.

[louis-t]

11. If only our 'allies' had the guts to stand up to...

shrubbie earlier. Spain will only be punished by WH if others in coalition stay in Iraq. Shrubco are a bunch of bullies, if enough people stand up to them, they back down. Read Scotty boy's little speech. "We believe the U.N. has a vital to play going forward."

Since when??

[Just Me]

12. They will diplomatically smile and say, "insufficient security",...

,...then, whisper KMA...A (which is code for "kiss my ass,...asshole").

Gotta take what you dished out, Georgie Pie.

:nopity:

[54anickel]

14. This line is rather ironic in its own way -

"Al Qaeda understands the stakes. Al Qaeda wants us out of Iraq because al Qaeda wants to use Iraq as an example of defeating freedom and democracy," he said.

Hmmm, didn't Shrub use Iraq as an example to the "terrorists"?

[damnraddem]

15. Come on, all you allies, I want to drag your governments down ...

with mine.
- Dubya

[freeforall]

16. World snubs chimpy...

This is great. Spain and Russia basically called him irresponsible yesterday, today Honduras is pulling out, the Haitan President returns to the Caribbean...

Do you ever think * will get the drift?

[UpInArms]

17. kick

:kick:

Get this back to the front - everyone needs to see this worm turn.

[T_i_B]

18. Spain got the point

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1170977,00.html

Maybe they think it's payback time. In 2001, many American conservatives were appalled by the reaction in some European quarters to 9/11, a reaction crudely summarised as "America had it coming". They insisted it was grossly insensitive to attack the United States and its foreign policy while Ground Zero still smouldered. They were right and I took their side, urging people at least to pause a while before adding greater hurt to an already traumatised nation.

But look what's happening now. A matter of days after the event branded Europe's 9/11, and American conservatives - including some of the very people who were so outraged by the criticisms hurled at the US in September 2001 - have started whacking not just Spanish policy, but the Spanish people.

The first mistake is the more surprising, for no word is invoked more often in support of the "war on terror" than democracy. Yet these insults hurled at the Spanish show a sneaking contempt for the idea. For surely the Spanish did nothing more on Sunday than exercise their democratic right to change governments. They elected the Socialist party; to suggest they voted for al-Qaida is a slur not only on the Spanish nation but on the democratic process itself, implying that when terrorists strike political choice must end.

It comes from the same mentality that prompted Republicans in 2002 to run TV ads against the Democratic senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in the Vietnam war, placing his face alongside those of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. It is the same thinking that led one Republican congressman to quip recently that a vote in November for John Kerry will be a vote for Osama. It is a bid to reshape the political landscape, so that parties of the right stand on one side and all the rest are lumped in with al-Qaida. The tactic is McCarthyite, the natural extension of the bullying insistence that, in President Bush's own words, "You are either with us or you're with the terrorists". If that is the choice, then there is no choice: it is a mandate for a collection of one-party states.

[Zech Marquis]

19. what allies?

Besides the poodle--who's looking pretty lonely right now--there's no one in Europe who's happy to call themselves an ally of * right about now.