posted on December 8, 2006 05:40:22 PM new
Bush Quickens Search for New War Plan
Updated 8:21 PM ET December 8, 2006
By DEB RIECHMANN
WASHINGTON (AP) - Quickening his search for a new war strategy, President Bush sought ideas from lawmakers on Friday and lined up three days of urgent talks with military brass, diplomats and outside experts on how to stop Iraq's slide toward anarchy.
Bush is expected to settle on a new course and present it to the nation in a speech before Christmas, the debate and his new efforts framed by the Iraq Study Group's stinging rebuke this week of U.S. policy.
In the meantime, Americans' dissatisfaction with his handling of Iraq has climbed to an all-time high of 71 percent in the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll."""
posted on December 8, 2006 05:56:41 PM new
Hey mingotree here is another FLIP FLOPPER.
I hope Oregan voters remember and vote this Azzhole out in the 2008 elections. Where are all the PHONY "STAY THE COURSE" NEW-CON now.
GOP senator says war may be 'criminal'
MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, a Republican who voted in favor of the Iraq war in 2002 and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."
In an emotional speech on the Senate floor Thursday night, Smith called for changes in U.S. policy that could include rapid pullouts of U.S. troops from Iraq. He said he never would have voted for the conflict if he had known the intelligence that President Bush gave the American people was inaccurate.
"I for one am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day," Smith said. "That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore. ... So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home."
A spokesman said Friday that Smith did not mean to call the war criminal in a legal sense. LOL
Smith is up for re-election in 2008. His comments come a month after Republicans lost control of Congress - in large part because of voter unhappiness with the Iraq war - and shortly after the Iraq Study Group issued a blistering criticism of the administration's handling of the war.
Smith said he is "tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let's cut and run or cut and walk, but let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way."
posted on December 8, 2006 07:49:00 PM new
Gosh, when Democrats speak out against the war, we are harshly reminded here that these are the "same hypocrites who voted FOR the war to begin with" and then we are LOLLED at.
Just curious Linda, is THIS guy one too?
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May 1, 2003, America brings "democracy" to Iraq. November 7, 2006, Iraq brings democracy to America.
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