Bush caves! Exposes resolve to stay the course as disastrous policy!

George Bush has raised the possibility of altering US tactics in Iraq in a move that his campaign manager said showed a commander-in-chief willing to learn from setbacks.
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"A president must lead with consistency and strength in these troubling times," Mr Bush told supporters in Onalaska, Wisconsin. "In war, sometimes you change your tactics - but you never change your principles."

In Washington, Mr Bush's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, told reporters several hours later that "the goal is fixed the tactics are flexible" in Iraq. Neither man detailed changes in the approach to Iraq, where about 1100 soldiers have died in combat in the past 19 months.

"The American people want a leader who is resolute in what he wants to accomplish and is flexible in working on how to accomplish it," Mr Mehlman said. "Ultimately what the American people want from their president is not some guy who lies on the couch and says 'Ooh,' but somebody who learns and adapts and changes based on what we learn."

Mr Mehlman conceded that Mr Bush may not sound consistent as he adapts his approach to changing circumstances, but said: "I think the American people are much more interested in what he has done for the country than in a particular answer to a question."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/27/1098667842419.html?oneclick=true

(good catch by milkyway)

He's gone off message. No one can win anything this week, but this is the way to lose.

So Bush has been lying on the couch going 'Ooh'?

God, if this doesn't smack of desperation - it is so obvious that they have been focus testing, and Kerry's charges that Bush is a little too 'resolute' have stuck a little bit better than the charges that Kerry was a wimpy waffler (damn you, debates!!!).

But the timing is so wrong that there is no way that this doesn't look desperate. I just wish it would get some play.

"I think the American people are much more interested in what he has done for the country than in a particular answer to a question."

I agree. Just what the hell has * done for the country, Kenny?

"I think the American people are much more interested in what he has done for the country than in a particular answer to a question."

On the evening of Nov 2nd, you'll find out just "much more interested" the American people are.

Indeed you will, sir!

with a room temperature(e.g. cabin in Utah)who can't even see the irony in his statement; or the political WMD he just handed to Kerry.

Professor 2

UnF'CKING believable that this cheapa's chimp gets away with this Bullsh't of a flip flop. Where is the f'cking media to call him out on this Flip-flop?

I'm sorry for the language and I'm trying to be nice, but to let this slime-ball get away with this when John Kerry has never changed his position and they turned him into a joke! I want some f'cking resolution and charges on him for both his FLIP-FLOP of civil union and now stay the course. Where the f'ck is the justice in this?

Again I'm sorry for the language I'm trying to be nice but right now I'm just so pissed off. I apologize ahead of time and hope that nobody takes offense. I've been trying to edit it out before I post, but everything I write right now when responding ends up coming out similar. This is actually the nicest I could be.

I'm sending it to the campaign.

If anyone's offended by your language, I would advise them to open their eyes and look at what's happening to their country. Now THAT's some offensive sh*t. I'm sure that even Mother Theresa would have some fine sailor language to use on * if she were alive today.
Being offended by bad language in the face of all this is like getting mad at somebody for sneezing on you in a hurricane.

It is all about 'leadership' and * leadership will win the election.

If * were a real leader, as a War-Time President, this election would not even be close?

I wish someone, any reporter or plastic talking face, would just ask why the election is so close if * were truly the leader that Apologist claim he is.

Oh my poor aching head... How is this not the flippiest flop EVER! I'm surprised that the crowd didn't reflexively start booing at the WORD "flexible"

Bush change position = good
Kerry change position = BAD BAD BAD BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HISS!

JK could string up OBL and Zarqawi singlehandedly and they'd STILL drink the * Kool-Aid.

"I think the American people are much more interested in what he has done for the country than in a particular answer to a question."

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I care about the casualties.
- I care that Americans are dying on Iraqi sand.
- I care that Iraqis are dying on Iraqi sand.
- I care that our world has been poisoned for the next several billion years.

I care about what he has done for -- er -- what he has done to the country and the world.

I could go on, but I will stop now.