Or is it a lost cause/war. What will his new slogan be. By now he should have run out of those packaged phrasing. right?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061228/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
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2006-12-28 10:47:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, he's not going to jettison "stay the course." He's working on repackaging "stay the course" into a new public relations campaign. In 1999 the Pentagon did extensive studies of a potential invasion of Iraq using an estimate of 400,000 troops. The study concluded that even at that troop level, the USA was looking at a decade or decades long occupation with no guarantee of success. Certain Pentagon officials told the Bush administration that they needed 700,000 troops to control Iraq. The administration ignored that advice and this debacle has been the result. The USA needs to put at least 500,000 to 800,000 troops into Iraq long term to govern the country and even then, there will be no guarantee that the country won't dissolve into civl war as soon as we leave. Do you really believe the American people are going to stand by while the government reinstates the draft, because there will be no other way to reach those levels, to continue the occupation of Iraq? If you are under the age of 42 and believe that this war is of any value to our country, then you need to enlist and put your butt where your mouth is. If you believe in this war, you should volunteer to fight this war.
2006-12-28 11:00:52 · answer #1 · answered by SharonLeigh 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Gee, poor W had to work three whole hours today. I'm sorry but the lead sentence in that article really got to me. How many of you are working 3-hour days and making $400,000 a year? Oh well, guess I should have been a draft-dodging moron with a rich family. I hadn't planned to answer that way until I read the article and something snapped. So here is what I planned to say:
I think Bush will stop saying "stay the course" because I think he will try to send in MORE troops with the promise that this is a short term plan. If the congress goes along with him (in terms of funding or some other inaction), I will be very disappointed. Call what he has been doing lying, or ignorance, but nothing he has promised in 6 years has come true. Nothing.
2006-12-28 18:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by firefly 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No way. Oh, he may change strategy, but in the larger sense, stay the course means stay in Iraq until they meet Bush's 3 goals of running itself, securing itself and helping in the war against terror.
2006-12-28 19:10:37 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I think he's going to send more troops on a "temporary" basis. He may send 25,000 to 40,000 more soldiers. Sounds like 'nam all over again. We have to understand one thing. We should not get bogged down in other nations' civil wars.
If "stay the course" means is Bush going to abandon his theory for victory in Iraq, no, I think it's going to be more of the same for the foreseeable future.
2006-12-28 18:52:02 · answer #4 · answered by gone 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
George Bush is a very confused and insecure little boy. He should go crawl back inside his mothers womb and "stay the course" inside there.
2006-12-28 19:18:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Since he's about to add extra troops, I guess TECHNICALLY he's changing tactics. But it sounds like he'll use those extra troops to just do more of the same. Perhaps a better description is he's intensifying staying the course.
2006-12-28 18:52:04 · answer #6 · answered by someone 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No it is not a lost cause war. A lot will be riding on what the Iraqi government does from here on out. They need to understand that the coalition can't carry them forever. I'm betting on the Iraqi's to step up. Now if we can just get the media to step up and give us some honest reporting we may actually have something.
2006-12-28 18:50:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Has anyone mentioned Neville Chamberlain yet?
2006-12-28 18:52:25 · answer #8 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I've heard he's already abandoned that saying.
Just like, it took untill now, for him to admit to global warming.
I guess he really does know the meaning to 'flip-flop'!
2006-12-28 18:52:06 · answer #9 · answered by Calee 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
nahh... wouldn't that be flip,flopping,... cut and run thinking,... admitting he didn't have an idea of what he was doing in the beginning?
2006-12-28 19:00:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋