G. Bush: "slow to engage our military, slow to commit our troops..."

I've culled some select quotes that members of the GOP righteously trumpeted in '99. DeLay's quote in the Dallas Times Herald (the last on the list) is mind boggling. Well, heck-- all are mind boggling when contrasted against the here and the now. Bush's 2000 campaign quote re: an exit strategy (#3) is compelling if only in it's irony. And Dick Lugar's statement... well, gosh.

These guys are amazing in their duplicity. And ya gotta love just how incredibly wrong they always seem to be in their prognostications! Goebbels is proud... on with the show:



"I cannot support a failed foreign policy...There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory."
-Tom Delay (R-TX)

"You can support the troops but not the president."
-Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
-Gov. George W. Bush (R-TX)


Then-GOP Presidential candidate Dan Quayle: “What has happened is we have taken a political crisis and a humanitarian crisis and escalated it into a full military crisis. The handling of the situation in the Balkans reflects the inattention of the Clinton Administration to foreign policy. … You have the samesituation . Ambiguity, no stated, clear cut mission and then you are going to have to be there quite some time.”
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN): “This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on his face, that’s his problem.”
May 4, 1999 -- The Scotsman reported, “The Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, said at the weekend: ‘I think that, as Jesse Jackson would say, give peace a chance here. There seems to be somemomentum. There seems to be an opportunity - we should seize this moment. As a matter of fact, you know, I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning. I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area.’”

In his most candid remarks to date, Bush told New York Times columnist William Safire: "I believe we ought to be slow to engage our military, slow to commit our troops,"

DeLay, for example, said, “The White House has bombed its way around the globe. International respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly.” As for Kosovo, DeLay complained that “no one wants us to be there” and that the president’s effort “has harmed standing in the world.” At one point, DeLay went so far as to urge Congress to stop providing necessary funds for the war as a way to end our involvement. Once we start “meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, where does it stop?” DeLay asked on the House floor. He charged that we were “starting to resemble a power-hungry imperialist army” and portrayed our mission as an “occupation by foreigners.”

...9/11 changed everything. :puke:

the neocons got their fig leaf for aggression against Iran.
http://seesdifferent.wordpress.com/2006/12/26/un-resolution-1747-neocon-ticket-to-war-with-iran/