Query: Will the U.S. pull out of Iraq if requested by the new government? Bush: "Absolutely. This is a sovereign government. They're on their feet."
The 01-28-05 New York Times reports that Bush said something yesterday in an interview with the newspaper that I am having a had time believing he said:
President Bush said in an interview on Thursday that he would withdraw American forces from Iraq if the new government that is elected on Sunday asked him to do so, but that he expected Iraq's first democratically elected leaders would want the troops to remain as helpers, not as occupiers.
I predict these words that Mr. Bush uttered in the Oval Office will come back to haunt him; at a minimum he will have to eat some words.
Will our troops be asked to leave? Probably not. Could they be? Yes. Will we then leave? Of course not.
Since some members of the administration had made similar pledges, although never Mr. Bush, I could be putting to much significance in his statement. But I don't think so.
I was as surprised to read that Bush had said this as when I read that Kerry, responding to Bush's challenge to him for a yes-or-no answer, had said 'yes,' that he still would have voted to authorize the war in Iraq even if he had known then that U.S. and allied forces would not find weapons of mass destruction.
For me, this demonstration of stupidity and a lack of common sense by Kerry in making his ill-fated decision to take Bush's bait and fall for his trap marked the beginning of the downfall of this mediocre candidate who beat himself rather than allowing the campaign to focus on his opponent's disastrous four years in office.
I wish there was such a serious consequence to Bush's comments.
But rather there being such, all that we will see is his being overruled by Karl Rove, Inc. as he was following his recent Washington Post interview (when he said he would not push for a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriages), or something similar to when his handlers clarified that he didn't mean what he said in his lofty Inauguration speech.
President Bush said in an interview on Thursday that he would withdraw American forces from Iraq if the new government that is elected on Sunday asked him to do so, but that he expected Iraq's first democratically elected leaders would want the troops to remain as helpers, not as occupiers.
I predict these words that Mr. Bush uttered in the Oval Office will come back to haunt him; at a minimum he will have to eat some words.
Will our troops be asked to leave? Probably not. Could they be? Yes. Will we then leave? Of course not.
Since some members of the administration had made similar pledges, although never Mr. Bush, I could be putting to much significance in his statement. But I don't think so.
I was as surprised to read that Bush had said this as when I read that Kerry, responding to Bush's challenge to him for a yes-or-no answer, had said 'yes,' that he still would have voted to authorize the war in Iraq even if he had known then that U.S. and allied forces would not find weapons of mass destruction.
For me, this demonstration of stupidity and a lack of common sense by Kerry in making his ill-fated decision to take Bush's bait and fall for his trap marked the beginning of the downfall of this mediocre candidate who beat himself rather than allowing the campaign to focus on his opponent's disastrous four years in office.
I wish there was such a serious consequence to Bush's comments.
But rather there being such, all that we will see is his being overruled by Karl Rove, Inc. as he was following his recent Washington Post interview (when he said he would not push for a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriages), or something similar to when his handlers clarified that he didn't mean what he said in his lofty Inauguration speech.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 6:50 AM
1 Comments:
Its going to be interesting to see what type of people emerge from this race. My feeling is the Iraqis will elect people who run on a platform of expelling the troops. Therefore if we had a press to hold Bush's feet to the fire, he would be in ...as his dad said "deep doo-doo" for making the statement you mentioned. He will just escape though, as the tide has now become too large in the GOPs favor for any real effective opposition until 2006.
About Kerry, I agree with your assessment about the beginning of the end in the campaign.
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