Has the Bush Doctrine decided to flip-flop?

Question

nearly five years since 9-11 and the president wants to try diplomacy, is it too little, too late for the Rove-brained, Bush team?

why did it take George W. Bush nearly 5 years to see the light of diplomacy?

Thanks to all the Convervatives for reminding us of the Clinton years of Diplomacy vs. the Bush Doctrine of
PRE-EMPTIVE WAR!
but, where have YOU been?

Answer 1

More importantly
He Fliped Flopped on Osama....

Remember
"wanted dead or alive"

Then
"i don't know where he is, nor, i just don't spend that much time on him"
A few days ago he closed the counter terrorism unit speciffically responsible for find OBL.


As for N. Korea....is the sadder FLIP FLOP

Then....
remember Colin Powell saying we were going to continue diplomacy and the Sunshine policy.....

Later
Bush contradicted powell and made south Korea look like fools. We cut off diplomacy

Now....flip flop...
Diplomacy is the way to go and talks....

Answer 2

What are you talking about? We had 12 years of diplomacy with Iraq. Bush is stupid like a fox. He keeps beating liberals who think they're so smart.

Liberals just can't stand the fact that Bush is a leader who doesn't need to take a poll and have a focus group before making a decision like Clinton/Gore.

By the way, we've had about 50 years of diplomacy with North Korea. So get your facts straight before you look more like a liberal idiot.

Answer 3

Did I miss something? Didn't we try diplomacy with Iraq from 1991 to 2002? 11 years of failed diplomacy, most of it during the Clinton regime?

Answer 4

Adam: uh... Iraq, N. Korea and Iran have all been in various stages of negotiations for years...

if he took the same tact with N. Korea, he would have invaded there, before Iraq... they DO have and admit to having NUCLEAR weapons... and about the same links to terror, both minimal... and many more have died in N. Korea...

but there is no rhyme or reason to Bush's policies... unless oil is a motivation... that's the only thing that seems to make much sense... and N. Korea doesn't have oil and he's pushing deplomacy after YEARS of attempts?

Answer 5

Neddie, would you please put the Kool-Aid down and log off moveon.org? Seriously, you really oughta start thinking for yourself. It's good for ya :)

We tried diplomacy with Iraq for how long? I believe it was about 11 years, during which Saddam was served with 17 UN resolutions, which he proceeded to ignore. Remember how our planes were patrolling the no-fly zones in the northern and southern areas of Iraq, and he was sending up planes to shoot at them? We only invaded after it was clear that the UN was all talk and never intended to enforce its own resolutions. You can only try to talk to someone for so long before it becomes clear that they're not listening to you. Hmmm...perhaps I should heed my own advice here. lol

Answer 6

We tried diplomacy with Iraq, dim-wit.....resolution 1441....among dozens of others....and it didn't work...Bush had from 2000 election to 2003 with trying to get Saddam to knock it off and he refused....N. Korea, I might add, isn't much to think of unless China gets serious...until then, it won't matter what we do.

Answer 7

Oh for cryin out loud, get out a history book and take a good long look at all the diplomatic scenarios that presented, hashed out, agreed to, revoked, stomped on, ignored, with Iraq.

Geez, why do you people believe we just barn stormed Iraq???

Clueless.

Answer 8

Yes it has, it's just a prime example that the criminal Bush administration has no idea what it's doing, unfortunately at our expense.

Answer 9

If you hadn't noticed in the pass few years he has done of lot of flip flop. I guess when your at the top you can do anything and get away with it!

Answer 10

why do we question the idiot's moves? i can't wait until my brother gets out of the navy this fall so he is no longer under his command