Bush's new message on Iraq: This is not a war of choice. WTF???

Who is buying this?

That fact was Cheney and the neocons dreamed up their little 1% rule as if it was the only logical response to the 9-11 attacks. The fact that the so called "axis of evil" had two other (far more threating) countries shows clearly that this was an optional war.

Even if you are willing to believe that we needed to start invading possible threats wouldn't it make more sense to go into Iran or North Korea first? Also wouldn't any good commander want to finish the job in Afghanistan before undertaking another adventure?

Bush is right Iraq wasn't a war of choice it was a war of "bad choice" like a blind drunk gambler these guys hit without checking their cards and busted.

Remember? His "God" commands him to do things.

That must make you an evil Liberal?
:sarcasm: Just in case.....

that BushCo hadn't the least understanding of Iraq. They picked it because they knew they would encounter massive problems if they went directly into confrontation with Iran or N. Korea.

threat because they thought it was a war they could win with no problem. They thought they would be greeted as liberators with flowers (and flowers are not the sign of a growing danger.)

The whole logic of preemption would dictate that the most pressing and treating country should have been attacked first. Now the most dangerous country is obviously North Korea, but because of China I would accept that even as a member of the axis of evil we probably could not have attacked them.

Iran on the other hand would have fit the profile for a country that warranted a preemptive attack far closer then Iraq did. (or better yet Afghanistan where we already were.)

The relative paucity of strategic thinking about counterinsurgency since Vietnam doubtless contributed to our difficulty in grasping the emergence of the insurgency in Iraq. The absence of recent counterinsurgency doctrine and training in the Army and Marine Corps prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom has similarly contributed to the uneven application of counterinsurgency principles at the tactical and operational levels there. At the small-unit level, where counterinsurgency is conducted on a daily basis, some units in Iraq have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adopt effective counterinsurgency techniques. Others have too often persisted in an over-reliance on military force, despite the fact that such techniques are generally unproductive in developing the intelligence from the local population that is the basis of success in counterinsurgency.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/08/1931298

"not a war of choice"
"you go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had"

And all the time the ratf*cking PR boys are are letting them know "you don't roll out a new product in August".

NONE of them should EVER be allowed to mouth that crap unchallenged.... not ever.

The soldiers certainly didn't have a choice as to whether they would be killed for george bush's lies or not.

army, blah, blah, as though because they are volunteer they know what they are getting into. I can assure him, many do not. His cavalier attitude to our troops, our Katrina victims and us is unacceptable.

bush how many of those "volunteers" died because of his lies?

uncritically....Analysis dismissed as Rove smiles.

I almost fell off my bed when I heard it.

gone off the reservation. I think that everything they do is so dumb that I can't tell the difference between an unscripted gaff and the stupid shit that they plan to try and shove down our throats.

sound like one and same but this one sounds like a new Orwellian phrase that karl the pigsty rove has come up with.

Or at least that seems to be the way this administration operates.

and himself. He just said a few days ago that Iraq had "nothing" to do with 9/11. So, if it had nothing to do with it, why did we invade? It was a "war of choice". Mr. Bush is not being honest, to say it politely. To be not so polite, he's a damn liar!

started when Islamic terrorists hit the twin towers. It's a stretch, of course, but when you consider they're playing to the same sheeple who have believed all along that Iraqis were on the planes and Iraq had WMD . . . what can I say? Tell them the moon is made of blue cheese long enough and they'll believe that, too.

who knows what they would do?