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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:39 AM
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MSNBC: White House says there will be no negotiations @ today's Bush/Congress Iraq meeting

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/04/18/155677.aspx

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NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports that Bush’s White House meeting with the bipartisan congressional leaders is going forward today as planned. The White House has described this meeting as "not a negotiation," but an opportunity to discuss the war supplemental. Democrats want compromise from the president on their demands for a timetable for withdrawal.

NBC’s Viqueira says that GOP leaders McConnell, Lott, Boehner, and Blunt spoke with Bush yesterday to strategize about today’s meeting. On the Democratic side, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will hold a press conference with veterans and military families at 11:45 am ET, before heading over to the White House for their meeting on the Iraq supplemental.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:41 AM
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1. What's he going to do, lecture them? Threaten them?
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:43 AM
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3. Nope. He'll just let the war go on for two more years...
And let whoever becomes President deal with the repercussions of a ruined country.
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:47 AM
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7. "...the repercussions of a ruined country."
Which one? There's so many to choose from.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:43 AM
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2. Why bother to meet with Bush then?
What hubris. I wouldn't waste my time listening to a lecture from an idiot who has been completely WRONG on every decision he's made on Iraq from day 1.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:43 AM
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4. Dogs of war don't negotiate...ask Pink Floyd
Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

The dogs of war don't negotiate
The dogs of war won't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world


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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:43 AM
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5. Then why meet?
There is no negotiating with this administration - compromise and flexibility are not part of what they're all about. The Dems have just got to move forward with their own agenda on Iraq, and keep calling these creeps to testify.
F**k 'em. Let them rot in pieces! :nopity:
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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:51 AM
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8. thats my first reaction too
but I think it positions Dems to say that they tried to negotiate, while at the same time showing Bush incapable of negotiation, even w/ Americans.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:47 AM
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6. Good. So when Bush vetoes the supplementary $$$$ bill
for the soldiers, the Dems can say "why doesn't Bush want to support the troops"?
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Dr. Death Donating Member (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:10 AM
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10. And that's exactly the point that needs to be hammered
over and over and over.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:51 AM
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9. I love how McConnell/Lott/Boner huddled with the Royal Decider--
presumably to create another "united front"--good, let 'em. Keep fighting the tide, boys.
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:46 AM
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11. When is the "White House" going to learn that we don't consider buildings to be...
...sentient beings, especially when certain buildings keep emitting lying and deceitful broadcast signals designed to misdirect and disinform.

Sloppy writing by MSNBC--typical of the war profiteering corporate news monopolies--used to enhance the legitmacy of the current junta and to obscure its deep fissures, and its personnel problems.

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"The White House has described this meeting as..." --MSNBC
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