Bush blasts critics of war

Bush blasts critics of war

Sat, November 12, 2005

By AP

TOBYHANNA, PA. -- President George W. Bush, in the most forceful defence yet of his Iraq war policy, accused critics yesterday of trying to rewrite history and alleged they're undercutting U.S. forces on the front lines.

"The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," the president said in a combative Veterans Day speech.

"While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began," Bush said.

The president's defence of his policy came at a time of growing doubts and criticism about a war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,050 members of the U.S. military. As casualties have climbed, Bush's popularity has dropped. His approval rating now is at 37 per cent in the latest AP-Ipsos poll, an all-time low point of his presidency.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2005/11/12/1303893-sun.html


SOUNDS like running scared...

http://www.thinkprogress.org/2005/07/26/bush-pulls-security/

and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101832.html

Happy day today. Impeachment proceedings let the good times roll!

By Tim Reid in Washington


President Bush began a fierce counterattack yesterday against Democrat accusations that he manipulated intelligence and misled America into the Iraq war.

“The stakes in the global War on Terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges,” he said in a Veterans Day speech at a Pennsylvania army base.

It was “deeply irresponsible” for Democrats to “rewrite the history of how the war began”, he said. Congressional inquiries had found no evidence of intelligence manipulation, and many other nations, and the UN, also believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1868506,00.html