Did Bush really say: “Wow, you mean we can still win this war?”

[antigop]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-2546344-524,00.html

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FEW neoconservatives can claim to have had as much influence on the course of the Iraq war as the trio of scholars in the Kagan family, writes Sarah Baxter.

Frederick Kagan, 36, is the author of Choosing Victory, a blueprint for the surge adopted by President George W Bush. Just as everybody had begun writing off the influence of the neocons at the White House, genial, chubby-faced Frederick gave the muscular intellectuals a lease of life.

It was at Camp David last June that Kagan, a military historian and fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, outlined his plans for pouring more troops into Iraq to Bush and his war cabinet.

Donald Rumsfeld, the then defence secretary, was unimpressed, but Kagan’s views got another hearing when Bush was searching for ways to ditch the seemingly defeatist recommendations of James Baker’s Iraq Study Group. “Wow, you mean we can still win this war?” a grateful Bush reportedly said.
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[billybob537]

1. He had to have a "Listening Tour"

To find someone willing to tell him what he wanted to hear.
Poor pathetic little coward.

[stevietheman]

6. Yup, the Chimp went "lapdog shopping" and found one.

Just one, mind you. :)

Bush is fucking insane.

[Vickers]

2. Yet another Repuke military "expert" that was never in the military.

Hey, I should write a book about being an astronaut!!!

[billybob537]

8. Or a brain surgeon

We could do a self tought brain surgery manual, Start by practicing on GWB?

[SpiralHawk]

9. COMMANDER AWOL loves him them chickehawk republicons

[livvy]

3. I found this interesting from the article.

Administration officials are already pondering alternative strategies for Iraq, should the surge fail. Dumping Maliki is an obvious first step. According to one congressman, Bush told him on the phone last week: “This has to work or you’re out.”

I thought this was the Iraqi's government.

[stevietheman]

7. The problem is that Maliki will likely be assassinated if he follows...

Bush's escalation plan.

[Rose Siding]

4. Just one more contribution to his "legacy"

of imbecilic utterings.

[chieftain]

5. Be afraid, be very afraid.The awesome power of the US, is

vested in a fool