Under fire Bush in bid to recapture political initiative (AFP)

(I like that, "...the Hurricane Katrina debacle.")

Under fire Bush in bid to recapture political initiative

04/10/2005 19h20

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush scrambled to seize back control of the US political battleground, defiantly defending his leadership in his first formal news conference for four months after a torrid summer tainted by crises at home and abroad. Bush, only eight months after laying out an aggressive second term agenda, insisted he had "plenty" of political capital left, despite slumping opinion poll ratings, an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, and severe criticism of his role in the Hurricane Katrina debacle.

"My job is to lead and solve problems," said Bush who looked noticeably more tired and less ebullient than during his last prolonged sparring match with reporters on May 31.

Despite raging violence in Iraq, he vowed US troops would not leave before victory was assured. He also defended his latest nominee for the Supreme Court, shouldered blame for misteps in the chaotic New Orleans rescue effort and raised concern over a possible avian flu pandemic. "We're not leaving Iraq. We will succeed in Iraq," Bush said.

"Iraq's a part of a global war on terror," he added, in the latest bid by his administration to frame the conflict as a vital front in a global battle for US security, and not, as some critics argue, as an unnecessary diversion from the fight against Al-Qaeda. "I've said that endlessly. I will continue to say it because I know it's true."

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(more at link above)

:grr:

"I've said that endlessly. I will continue to say it because I know it's true." -- GWB, October 4, 2005

CATAPULT THE PROPAGANDA

over and over, until the ** sinks in...

Maybe some 'reporter' should ask if the B.S. he spouts is part of what he considers his job?

:grr:

...trying not to say something stupid.

You are a liar shrub. We know it. You know it. We know you know it.

Do the country a favor and in the words of Bill Maher, "Just walk away."

but it was best said by that badass in Mad Max.

"Just walk away!"

I'd like to see Bush in a post-apocalyptic desert world.

Wait a minute... I may wind up seeing that afterall...

...he is WAY to close to the man with the football too let me sleep easy at night.

Of course he may just cause the next depression, that would only be disasterous...