George Bush relied on bad data to declare war on Iraq. Is he qualified to say when to pull the US out?

Answer 1

He is not qualified to say or do anything.

Answer 2

I think you believed in bad data. In this case the bad data was the bullsh*t that came out of the president's mouth and you bought into it. This man who claims to be president has made himself the laughing stock by his own actions. He is lazy, he is juvenile and he makes no effort at all to take responsibility. It is always someone else's fault never his or his administration. He is a pathetic buffoon who never should have been president to begin with. He never was qualified and he never will be. If this man who pretends to act like a CEO had been head of any corporation the board of trustees would have fired him a long time ago. It takes more then putting on an expensive suit in the morning to run a company and the fact that he is the president of our country should be enough for his "followers" to wake up and throw the bum out because it is your country that he is destroying!

Answer 3

Who said Geo W 'relied' on bad data? Geo W was determined to attack Iraq. MILLIONS of Americans were like Southerners at a Lynching jonesing for an excuse, collectively muttering, "c'mon George let US at 'em, give us a reason." Geo W merely trotted out a litany of viable excuses and the one that caught everyone's heart was WMD - - - Weapons of Mass Destruction. Geo W got what he and a majority of Americans wanted - - - I challenge anyone to give proof of a viable anti-war movement in the weeks before the Attack on Iraq. As for pulling out - - - why? Welcome to the New Economy. AN on going War thousands of miles away. America's Armed Forces were getting flabby there in the Nineties, now it is a lean mean killing machine. Were you aware that on average every amputee requires the medical services of twenty specialists over an on going period? And look how much money will be spent on community centers in the name of dead 'heroes?' Pull out, why, when more than likely the US will go in either next door in Iran or Syria, perhaps both. Welcome to the New American World Order, where is Your Patriotism?

Answer 4

I do not agree with your premise. If you go back to all of the speeches, news coverage, criticism from Democrats, you will find that there were many reasons for invading Iraq. All of them valid.
While it may be up to the President to make the final call, he certainly will not do it on his own. There are the government of Iraq, US military, US Congress, United Nations, the coalition who will make the decision. Yes, Mr. Bush is qualified.

Answer 5

Qualified or not? The only qualification President has is that he has been so elected. He always acts on the basis of advice of his specialist staff. He has indeed to be careful before ordering withdrawal of troops.Any premature withdrawal will surely result in civil war and anarchy.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

were the damnocrats qualified to support the war since they hate funding our great military. Remember kerry, sillary, kennedy and many more yellow damnocrats spoke out against Saddam and his evil regime!!

Answer 8

Here's one scenario Phase One: Transitional civil war

It starts with the generals: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld repeatedly remind us they are driving the car. Remember, Bush is too strong to follow public opinion when it comes to troop strength or other strategic and tactical decisions. He listens to his experts on the ground. So the first step will be a gradual adjusting of the recent generals' "civil war" analysis from a negative sounding "slide" into a more positive and uplifting "transition." This new phase will, of course, require a fresh tactical and strategic approach and further study by the military.

Phase Two: Iraqi government asks us to leave

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, standing proudly with his military and security team, will make a major address thanking the Americans for everything accomplished thus far and announce: "We can take it from here." He will ask our troops to retreat to the borders in virtually the same strategic role suggested by congressman Murtha, but this won't be a "cut and run" approach suggested by wimpy Democrat. It will be a carefully determined strategy created by Iraq military brass and the freely elected and independent government of Iraq.

Phase Three: Civil war is good

Of course, this new "transitional civil war" will be painted as a necessary and understandable period in the march to democracy. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and the entire right-wing media machine will swarm the news shows and talk forcefully about how many years it took for the U.S. to travel from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to a Constitution and our first president in 1789. How "transitional civil war" is a necessary step that now requires our troops to get out of the way. Dick Cheney will talk about how "lucky" the Iraqis are to have already entered the civil war phase -- "the United States had to wait a full 60 years to make that necessary transition to a more perfect union". We will hear about the Shay Rebellion and every minor misstep and outbreak Rove and his minions can find in the messy American march to democracy.

Phase Four: The mission was accomplished

With our generals and the Iraq government now in-sync, Hannity and Team Republican will begin to hammer away at how we DID accomplish our goals in Iraq. We will be reminded that the "mission" was to depose a dangerous dictator who was hell-bent on blowing up the world, supportive of 9/11 and sponsoring terrorism. How Saddam's WMD intentions were dismantled, and his dangerous military deneutered. How the United States successfully orchestrated three elections and helped the Iraq people create a solid constitution and a path to democracy. And now, with a terrific U.S.-inspired democratic framework in place, the Iraqi Army and government would handle the next steps to self-reliance. The Iraqi people would sort things out, and eventually -- in five to 10 years perhaps --- achieve democracy.

Phase Five: The assault on defeatist, unpatriotic liberals and democrats

This will be the fun part for Ken Melman and Karl Rove. War heroes will be honored. Memorials erected. Candidates McCain and Giuliani will talk about our valiant stand against terrorism on the streets of Baghdad. Any mention of defeat or wasted funds will be painted as an insult to all of the brave men and women who fought for freedom. We will be reminded again and again -- no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, Hussein is in jail and Iraq is on the road to freedom. Democrats will be brutally attacked for whining and putting down America and our military -- again. Democrats will see a populace happy the troops are home, and feel boxed-in by the Republicans' relentless attack on their anti-U.S., do-nothing, wimpy foreign policy -- again. The Republicans stood Hussein down, took the fight to the terrorists and freed a country. 9/11! 9/11! 9/11!

Let's face it, there won't be a lot of Iraqi's complaining as we exit. Most will conclude things can't get any worse -- so we might as well fight this out among ourselves. Old-school conservatives will be glad our interventionist phase is over. Neocons will argue that chaos was always Plan B, and even if a divided and weakened Iraq eventually emerges -- that is also success. Anything was preferable to a centralized and powerful Saddam. Progressives will be happy about the withdrawal and fight like hell to convince the country the loss of life and $1 trillion spent was a colossal waste -- and a foreign policy failure. But since no American citizen will be able to easily describe the Democratic alternative -- more troops? fewer troops? better planning? more cooperation with the French? the U.N.? -- Americans will be happy to forget and move on. What's a trillion dollars among friends?

And the future in this scenario? Lots of juicy contracts will be awarded to rebuild and retrain the military in Democratic districts. The endless war against terrorism will go on. With our troops out of harm's way, President McCain will be free to exercise the kind of anti-terror, aerial-only campaigns Americans prefer. Vice President Giuliani will spearhead "Operation Home-Turf" -- a $100 billion bipartisan effort to kill two birds with one stone -- terror and immigration. A national ID card, immigration strangling, shipping-container sensitive, port-security, domestic-tracking apparatus all security-minded Americans will be happy to support.

Afghanistan? A distant memory. "Let them have over there, so they don't want to come over here" will be the new unspoken motto. Let the Middle East go back to hating Jews, like the good old days. Giving lots of money to Israel is far preferable to sending troops, and cheaper too. Israel has bombs landing in their backyards -- and people openly calling for their annihilation -- so bombing Iran's nuclear facilities is easily justifiable. Let them do the dirty work. And Iraqis will fight among themselves, a pro-west strongman will emerge and order will be restored.

So Democrats and progressives will be tearing their hair out again -- if they have any hair left. We simply won't be able to understand how the Right turns a war-centric calamity into victory and a path to election for McCain-Giuliani, anymore than we understood how Kerry became an anti-U.S. war vet and Bush a flyboy. The new progressive strategy of the "common good" and "we are in this together" will be crushed again by Rambo America.

Answer 9

A History Of Lies: WMD, Who Said What and When

Intelligence leaves no doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons

George Bush, US President 18 March, 2003

Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary 2 April, 2003

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit

Tony Blair 28 April, 2003

We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd

Tony Blair, Prime Minister 18 March, 2003

It is possible Iraqi leaders decided they would destroy them prior to the conflict

Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary 28 May, 2003

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

Dick Cheney
Speech to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002


Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

George "aWol" Bush
Speech to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002



If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
December 2, 2002


We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
January 9, 2003


"25,000 liters of anthrax ... 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin ... materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent ... upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents ... several mobile biological weapons labs ... thousands of Iraqi security personnel ... at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors."

George "aWol" Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 2003



We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
February 5, 2003



We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.

George "aWol" Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003


So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
March 7, 2003



Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

George "aWol" Bush
Address to the Nation
March 17, 2003


Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

Ari Fleisher
Press Briefing
March 21, 2003


There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

Gen. Tommy Franks
Press Conference
March 22, 2003


I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
Washington Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003


One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
Press Briefing
March 22, 2003


We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003


Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.

Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington Post op-ed
April 9, 2003


I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
April 10, 2003


We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.

George "aWol" Bush
NBC Interview
April 24, 2003


There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld
Press Briefing
April 25, 2003


We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

George "aWol" Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 3, 2003


I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.

Colin Powell
Remarks to Reporters
May 4, 2003


We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld
Fox News Interview
May 4, 2003


I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.

George "aWol" Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 6, 2003


U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction.

Condoleeza Rice
Reuters Interview
May 12, 2003


I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne
Press Briefing
May 13, 2003


Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found.

Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps
Interview with Reporters
May 21, 2003



Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
NBC Today Show interview
May 26, 2003



They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003


For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.

Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity Fair interview
May 28, 2003

It was a surprise to me then Eit remains a surprise to me now Ethat we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there.

Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
Press Interview

But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.

--George W. Bush
Interview with TVP Poland
5/30/2003

You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons ...They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two...And we'll find more weapons as time goes on And we'll find more weapons as time goes on

--George W. Bush
Press Briefing
5/30/2003

But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.

--George W. Bush
Interview with TVP Poland
5/30/2003

You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons ...They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two...And we'll find more weapons as time goes on And we'll find more weapons as time goes on

--George W. Bush
Press Briefing
5/30/2003

Answer 10

Well he's the president it's his call right or wrong.