OK, where is the outrage over this: "Bush: Progress in Iraq is mixed"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

After all of the Connecticut Cowboy bravado...after "they can run, but they can't hide"...after "Mission Accomplished"...after "Bring it ON"...after "we will smoke them out of their caves"...we get the USA Today headline "Bush: Progress in Iraq is mixed???"

Does this mean that he still has his FIRM, STEADFAST RESOLVE? Does this mean that he still will not be shaken?

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/20041221/ts_usatoday/bushprogressiniraqismixed

President Bush (news - web sites) delivered a sober assessment of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) on Monday, acknowledging that recent bomb attacks were proving to be "effective propaganda tools." At the same time, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll found that a majority of Americans disapprove of the way the war is being run and say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign.

In a wide-ranging news conference five days before Christmas, Bush conceded that Iraqi troops aren't ready to take over the security of their country. Noting that some U.S.-trained Iraqi troops have fled under fire, he said, "I would call the results mixed."

Bush said that the elections planned for Iraq on Jan. 30 would be only a first step for the country. "I certainly don't expect the process to be trouble-free," the president said. "Yet...I'm confident the terrorists will fail, the elections will go forward and Iraq will be a democracy." The new poll showed increased pessimism among Americans concerning the war effort. A majority, 52%, said Rumsfeld should resign; 41% said they approve of the job he's doing.

The embattled Pentagon (news - web sites) chief has been criticized in recent days by several prominent members of Congress, including Republicans such as Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) and Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record). Bush gave him a vote of confidence. "I believe he's doing a really fine job," Bush said. "Sometimes, perhaps, his demeanor is rough and gruff. But beneath that rough and gruff, no-nonsense demeanor is a good human being who cares deeply about the military and deeply about the grief that war causes."

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MEANWHILE, Supreme Lord Emperor Baby Jesus Bunnypants addresses "the grief that war causes" by dressing up as an unholy cross between Van Helsing and one of the Oak Ridge Boys:

[Inland]

1. The only news is that Bush actually admits something

and that thing is, the least he can possibly admit. "Don't expect elections to be trouble-free". No shit, sherlock.

[EC]

6. He's setting us up

for declaring an emergency situation in Iraq, to cover for his next moves, then he'll say he needs more money and will have to start up a draft...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. It's "hard work". We know results will be mixed

He has already told us and so lowered expectations.
Apparently getting armor on all the humvees is "hard work" too.

[rkc3]

3. Nice -- bomb attacks = Propaganda tools

You would think that a guy who has as much experience with propaganda as bush, would recognize that Iraqis don't want us in the country and that his planners did a shitty job protecting the borders and ammo dumps on their way to ousting Hussein.

Maybe if he'd lay off the bottle or read a newspaper, he might see what a fuckarow Iraq has turned into.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. If you want to see how 'mixed' results are in Iraq, remember

that Iraq is less than one tenth the size of the US.

Using 10% as a ballpark, multiply all the reported civilian and Iraqi guard casualties by ten, and imagine the same here at home.

3 poll workers murdered = 30 poll workers murdered.

15 sitting or aspiring government officials assassinated = 150 US senators, congressmen, precinct captains and mayors assassinated.

17 Iraqi guardsmen killed in an ambush = 170 cops killed in a single incident.

100,000 civilians dead = 1,000,000 Americans killed by a foreign power that invaded us to save us from ourselves.

Can anybody wonder what we need to do?

[Willy Lee]

5. There are no problems in Iraq. Keep repeating it. It is their way.

How many Bush administration officials does it take to screw in light bulb?



None.



There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its condition is improving every day.

Any reports of its lack of incandescence are delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effort.



Why do you hate freedom?