Bush Marks Anniversary, Never Says 'War'

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President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by touting the efforts to build democracy there and avoiding any mention of the daily violence that rages three years after he ordered an invasion.
The president didn't utter the word "war."

"We are implementing a strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq," the president assured a public that is increasingly skeptical that he has a plan to end the fighting after the deaths of more than 2,300 U.S. troops. Administration officials repeated the mantra that progress continues toward building a unified Iraqi government and nation.

"Now is the time for resolve, not retreat," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wrote in a column for The Washington Post. "Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."

Yet there were acknowledgments from the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq that the situation is fragile and that he did not predict the strength of the insurgency.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060319/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_6

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. The strength of the insurgency is directly proportional to the

ineptness of this administration, the lack of planning for "postwar" Iraq, the amount of graft and corruption witnessed by the Iraqis in the "rebuilding", the lack of jobs reserved for the Iraqis but given to foreigners, the electicity shortage, clean water shortage and whatnot. It's almost as if the insurgency is part of the plan for our staying there and maintaining control of the economics of the situation... indeed it must be.

[flordehinojos]

2. he should have used the word OCCUPIED, as in,

"We are implementing a strategy that will lead to victory in OCCUPIED Iraq,"


and when ROMMEL states, "Now is the time for resolve, not retreat," ... "Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."

what he really means is... "Turning our backs on OCCUPIED Iraq today would be the equivalent of GIVING BACK TO THE IRAQIS WHAT WE SO LUSTED AND INVADED IRAQ FOR... THEIR OIL"


PLAIN AND SIMPLE BUT NEVER EXPECT TO HEAR THE TRUTH FROM GEORGE BUSH, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, JEB BUTTINSKY BUSH, CONDROOOLEEEZZZAAA LICE, DONALD ROMESFELT DUCK, TRICKY DICKY CHENEY, LAURA BUSH, THE je-je TWINS, OR ANY ONE OF THE REST OF THEM...

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Historical equivalent

Rumsfeld: "Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."

If these clowns had been in charge of post WW-2 Europe, they would have been begging the Soviets to invade.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Victory In Iraq!

When every...last...person
That opposes our presence there is dead or incapacitated....We win.

Then he can start here.

[liveoaktx]

5. What gets me is his use of the "Liberation of Iraq" phrase which

he used twice today. There isn't any way we would have gone to Iraq initially to "liberate" it.

[ClintonTyree]

6. Except when he's the, "War President"..........

trying to get away with illegal spying and trying to convince people he's "tuff on terra". :eyes: I imagine he is a little hesitant to use the word "war" unless he's in a crowd of hand-picked bushbots. which is just about always.