"Bush: 'I'm the Decision-Maker' on Iraq" (AP)

[Norquist Nemesis]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME

By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his buildup.

"I've picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.

The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are lining up to support resolutions opposing his decision to send 21,500 troops to Iraq. He challenged them to put up their own ideas.

"I know there is skepticism and pessimism and that some are condemning a plan before it's even had a chance to work," the president said. "They have an obligation and a serious responsibility therefore to put up their own plan as to what would work."

...

:argh:

Bush says that "they" have an "obligation and serious responsibility" to put up their own plan so that he can be skeptical and pessimisstic and, ultimately, be "the Decision-Maker" to nix their plan.

[ms liberty]

1. The hatred I feel for that man increases daily...K&R n/t

[lancdem]

4. Yep

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Just when I think it can't get any worse

the Bushetals and Cons never cease to amaze me just how much they can simultaneously make me hate them while scaring the crap out of me that they'll find a way to continue covert destruction of America.

[RiverStone]

14. How can our Democracy allow a Dictator to rule????

Now it has moved to the absurd - Shrub spews forth such garbage as "I'm the Decider - I decide troop levels" - :wtf:

Folks, what is the rest of our government missing that we get? I thought there were both protections and safeguards in our constitution from abuse of executive power? I don't get it.

[crim son]

2. He must be stopped.

He isn't capable of making reasoned decisions.

[havocmom]

3. Do the parent trick: Give him an old checkbook on a closed account

and see how far he gets writing checks on his own.

[crim son]

6. If I had the power.

For the first time during his pResidency I am more than merely shocked and disgusted; I am afraid. His actions are endangering all our lives. He's a madman.

[havocmom]

7. What really worries me is not 'the Decider' so much as the religious nuts in the Air Force

that would follow his order to start the war from 45,000 feet then leave it to the other services to die for the next generation.

[crim son]

8. I know what you mean.

There's a dynamic at work and it feels positively apocalyptic. Last night there was a problem with our local television station and the station identification screen appeared. My first thought was that we had attacked Iran. :scared:

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. Know what you mean!

I'm so often up till at least 2 or 3 am. They always decide to run the emergency test in the middle of something I'm intently watching...late at night...when everyone's asleep...and only a few would hear the warning... :scared:

[cassiepriam]

5. Time to increase his meds again. That darn psychotic thinking keeps breaking thru.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. If only!!! n/t

[fooj]

12. What does this asshole have to do to be impeached?

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. At this point, only God and Pat Robertson know.

I honestly don't know what it's going to take.

[Vinca]

15. Someone's going to have to take one for the team and give him

a blow job.:puke:

[Cabcere]

16. Maybe I'm just being cynical, but

somehow I don't think even that would stop him. :(

[Vinca]

17. You're right. No one would believe it, anyway.

:rofl:

[Sequoia]

18. Yes, we've noticed you idiot. That's why people are dying

and the Universe hates us.