Bush aide: 'We have not failed in Iraq'

Dec 3, 2006

WASHINGTON - While President Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week's Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said Sunday.

"We have not failed in Iraq," Stephen Hadley said as he made the talk show rounds. "We will fail in Iraq if we pull out our troops before we're in a position to help the Iraqis succeed."

But he added: "The president understands that we need to have a way forward in Iraq that is more successful."

The White House readied for an important week in the debate over Iraq: Bush planned a meeting Monday with Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the largest bloc in Iraq's parliament, and awaited the recommendations Wednesday from the bipartisan commission.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061203/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq


I'd like to read this jerk's definition of failure.

"Allah does not change what has befallen people until they change what is in themselves"
- Holy Quran

President Peter Pan loves to snort so much fairy dust that he flies up up up in the sky in his LASSEIZ FAIRYLAND where everything goes his way.

I swear, it will take a century to undo the shit the Nazi Republican Party has inflicted on us!

circling the wagons. What puzzles me though is their insistence on obviously tired "progress is being made, spreading democracy" memes. They're just making the politically strategic withdrawal that seems inevitable more difficult and I find it hard to believe they're going to try a last ditch military effort in the midst of the armed anarchy. Maybe I'm missing something in all the spin. :shrug:

They are referring to their cadre of cronies who have profited, and are continuing to profit, very handsomely from all this mess.

Seriously. They have fashioned this fiasco into a world view of "democracy at the end of a gun" which would somehow inspire the Middle East to follow suit.

Obviously, someone missed the chapter that there are other world views based on similar, short sighted armed movements. Intractable confrontation would seem inevitable.

In any event, don't discount the Administration's true believer extremism, concurrent to the profit motives enmeshed in the whole scenario.

At least, most of them do. They know it's not about democracy or freedom, because they have been doing their best to destroy those things at home. They know it was never about weapons of mass destruction, because they know it would have been impossible for the most bombed, the most sanctioned, the most surveilled country in the world for the 12 years prior to the invasion to have come anywhere near getting the military capability they were attributing to Saddam. They are just spouting the things they know Americans want to hear, and will feel good about.

And their assaults on the Constitution have to have given them some qualms...The only rationale I can fathom is they believe the BS, come hell or high water.

They're not all crazy, it's not all about the money, imo, there's some blind faith lock step that's been going on at the upper/mid level bureaucracy, across the board - domestic and international. That's really what I'd like to see snipped - Bush is gone in 2 years, as is Cheney, but their "coup de bureau" could last years if unchecked.

should be drug out of every damn government building and put somewhere where they can't do anymore damage.

....Ambiguous talk, or talk that seems relevant but is really meaningless, especially as offered up by politicians.

Well, yea he was. And this headline might as well of said: Bush Aide: We've FAILED in Iraq!

...I believe the official military terminology is "FUBAR"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq



White House on defensive over Iraq memos
By BEN FELLER

WASHINGTON - While President Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week's Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said Sunday.

"We have not failed in Iraq," Stephen Hadley said as he made the talk show rounds. "We will fail in Iraq if we pull out our troops before we're in a position to help the Iraqis succeed."

But he added: "The president understands that we need to have a way forward in Iraq that is more successful."

The White House readied for an important week in the debate over Iraq: Bush planned a meeting Monday with Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the largest bloc in Iraq's parliament, and awaited the recommendations Wednesday from the bipartisan commission.

why are people always saying that? NO HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.

Hadley had his lines memorized and imprinted inside his eyelids, and he stayed precisely on message, word for word, as though repetition would make him more honest and accurate.

Listening to a spinster puppet like Hadley makes my stomach turn after a while.

yeah, you have.

...and the 1937 landing of the Hindenburg was a great success, too.

Shesh!

And the fetal-alcohol-syndrome-addled 'cowboy' across the table won't tip his king because he vowed before the game "We will be victorious and nothing less will be accepted!"

So you keep playing because as long as you keep playing, you haven't lost yet.

:thumbsup:

I wonder what life is like down there in the bunker?

It was their intention to get the Middle East into the biggest mess ever.

Since they're in denial mode, they might as well cover everything.

When did that coward ever fight in a war? When did he ever sacrifice a child or urge his children to go fight in Iraq? He's nothing but a two-bit armchair warrior. It's so much easier to conduct a war when you have nothing personal to lose.

Him and his cronies and family sicken me to no end.

Maybe "we have not failed" really means that 'we have not finished failing yet, more of this cluster fuck yet to come.'

cocksucker in the history of this country.

since day 1 their war crimes in Iraq started.

They have not failed to loot the Treasury of the US, as they intended to, long before they fixed the 2000 elections and did everything they could (and still can) to make sure thousands of Americans would pay the price of their immoral defrauding of the US taxpayers with their lives, by willfully ignoring ALL warnings about their incoming (and carefully planned) "new Pearl Harbor" they have not failed to make happen either (yet).

That arrogant co-conspirator is telling the truth (for a change...).

They (the real meaning of the "we" in the headline) have not failed in Iraq.

We, The People, Failed (to hold them accountable for their million crimes).

For how long will we continue to fail at that?