Bush Defines Victory In Iraq.

"We must stay the course until America believes me. I mean, Just don't leave me looking like the lying asshole I am! I will keep those damn troops anywhere I damn well please until they make everyone believe me. When America decides I was not a miserable failure then, I will talk about bringing them home. They will stay and fight until I have my legacy dammit!

Until they prove I am a great president, those folks will stay or I am not George Bush!"

see the diff?

I think it is not too far off the mark of what he really thinks. Wouldn't it be refreshing if he loosed his handlers and actually said these words?

means.

Victory was overthrowing Saddam and proving the non-existance of WMD. Hard for Bush to claim that disproving his own theory was his actual goal. Even though it was what this war was predicated on.

and stolen every last drop of oil the can out of there.

Bush Feared 'Looking Weak' on Iraq

By Robert Parry
October 15, 2005

Less than two months before invading Iraq, George W. Bush fretted that his war plans could be disrupted if United Nations weapons inspectors succeeded in gaining Saddam Hussein’s full cooperation, possibly leaving Bush “looking weak,” according to notes written by a secretary to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The notes, taken by Blair’s personal secretary Matthew Rycroft, were included in a new edition of Lawless World, a book by University College professor Philippe Sands. The notes on the Jan. 30, 2003, phone call between Bush and Blair were reviewed by the New York Times, which said they were marked secret and personal. (NYT, Oct. 14, 2005)

At the time, Blair wanted Bush to seek a second resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would have judged Iraq to be in violation of U.N. disarmament demands and would have authorized military action. According to the notes, Bush agreed that “it made sense to try for a second resolution, which he would love to have.”

But Bush’s deeper worry was that chief U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix would conclude that Hussein’s government was cooperating in the search for weapons of mass destruction, thus delaying or blocking U.S.-led military action. Bush’s “biggest concern was looking weak,” the British document said.

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Though American journalists had witnessed the U.N.’s search of Iraq’s WMD, no one in the national press corps challenged Bush’s historical revisionism. Meanwhile, some of Bush’s defenders argued that the absence of WMD didn’t mean that Bush was a liar, only that he was misled by faulty intelligence.

. . .

In that sense, the newly disclosed British notes – like the earlier Downing Street Memo showing that Bush wanted the intelligence to be “fixed” around his Iraq policy – simply add more weight to the already strong case on Bush’s duplicity.

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One constant throughout this troubled chapter of American history seems to be that Bush puts above all other concerns his avoidance of “looking weak” or being proved wrong. But, arguably, the cause of helping Bush avoid accountability and making him look tough has cost the lives of nearly 2,000 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/101405.html

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