Bush's War Boy Gates Says Questioning Bush's Iraq Plan and Offering Alternatives Helps the Enemy

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Bush Defies Lawmakers To Solve Iraq
Gates Says Doubts Bolster Enemy

By Michael Abramowitz and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, January 27, 2007; A01

Declaring "I'm the decision maker," President Bush yesterday challenged congressional efforts to formally condemn his Iraq plan, while Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned that a proposed Senate resolution criticizing the deployment of additional troops would embolden the enemy.

"Any indication of flagging will in the United States gives encouragement to those folks," Gates told reporters at the Pentagon. "I'm sure that that's not the intent behind the resolutions, but I think it may be the effect."


Democrats responded angrily to Gates's comments, which were similar to what Petraeus said at his Tuesday hearing before his confirmation yesterday. "The American people will rightly dismiss these accusations as a desperate attempt by the administration to support a failed policy that is not worthy of the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) disputed Bush's suggestion that the Democrats have not come up with a plan. Speaking at the Brookings Institution, he said his party was united around the proposition that the United States should shift more responsibility to the Iraqis, begin a "phased redeployment" of troops and initiate more aggressive regional diplomacy to stabilize Iraq.


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1. If being a good American means having to heil our Fuhrer

...then consider me a BAD TO THE BONE American.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Bush regime tells America to shut up and take it

With an attitude like that
I think they have another thing coming
We won't shut up and we're not going to take it.
Ever.

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3. Dumbya's *WAR* is what emboldens the enemy it also created. n/t