Did Pres Bush just screw the dems to the wall???

Question

he said the war on terror would extend beyond his term. Now the dems can do one of several things, give Bush all the backing he needs to end it quickly, come up with some specific plans ( just withdrawing won't do it, they'd be seen as surrender monkeys)
or,. be honest and admit they have no plans.
To continue to say Bush got un into thismess, or Bush lied, will work for a while.
Eventuially people will say "you dems are now in control, what are you going to do about it??" Blaming Bush will no longer work.
The dems don't want to deal with it, they have no plan, it looks like stupid Bush turns out to be a master politician while the dems paint him as another homer Simpson. What is it they say about paybacks?

Answer 1

The war on terror will be indefinite. Everyone knows that. It has nothing to do with backing Bush.

Answer 2

you're assuming, of course, that democrats will still be in the majority after the next election, perhaps in the presidency. This is not a sure thing.

Democrats do have a plan for the War on Terror, and it doesn't differ by very much (if you go for mainstream candidates) from the Bush plan. Gradual withdrawal of troops from Iraq, smarter tactics in Afghanistan, etcetera. Republicans will do the same thing, and I know that.

The fact is that the entire Middle East policy needs a drastic change. Dems and Republicans have to stop backing Sunni terrorists (mostly from Saudi Arabia) and stop backing dictators. You'd think they'd learn that after Reagan financed al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, but they haven't.

Answer 3

President Bush gave a good speech and told it like it is. We can't just leave Iraq and the Dems know it. They won't be out totally for a number of years and yes, the Dems will have to deal with it. They don't care what they say at this point because the election is approaching and they will use their "Moveon connection" to get all the publicity they can get. In the end, they will have to pay a price for all the stories that they have been telling, for all the disrespect and belittling of our brave troops, our honorable four star General and the patriots who are trying to keep us safe. Bush has made some mistakes, for sure but he is not as evil as the Dems paint him to be. There is more evil coming and if you think we have trouble now, if Hillary gets in office, you got real trouble!!

Answer 4

The tune of the left is, "We gotta change! Time for a change. We demand change," right? Bush has changed the secretary of defense. Bush has changed the commanders in Iraq. Bush has changed the ambassadors to Iraq. Bush has changed the entire Iraq strategy, and those changes have changed the momentum.

Now, the Democrats, they haven't changed Harry Reid. They haven't changed Nancy Pelosi. They haven't changed their talking points. They haven't changed their lack of cooperation. They haven't changed their defeatism. About the only thing that has changed -- and this is with routine consistency -- is Hillary Clinton's position of the day on the war. Of all the words, of all the concepts, the lament of the left is "change," and they haven't changed a bit.

The president is offering and providing all kinds of change. The democrats offer nothing but chump change.

Answer 5

Neither the "Dems" or the "Pubs" are being honest with us about this unconstitutional, unjustifiable, illegal and immoral 'war'. The "Dems" know this 'war' will go on for decades - if not generations - until America has sucked every drop of OIL from Iraq's sands.
That's why the U.S. is building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad, overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government installed by the Bush administration;
That's why Halliburton is building fourteen (yes - 14!) new permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq;
That's why the number-one non-military 'benchmark' isn't being discussed by politicians: they all know that Bush is insisting that Iraq surrender 66% of its oil fields to private foreign corporation - mostly "big oil" companies. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Venezeula and Iran - which control their own oil drilling and extraction - Iraq's oil will be controlled by "big oil" if Bush-Cheney gets their way.**
-RKO- 09/14/07

Answer 6

The congressional Democrats have two equally unappetizing options:

1) Cut off the war funding and be painted as soft on terrorism, anti-war pansies by right wing radio and Fox.

2) Continue war funding and be seen as being soft on the President and a bunch of pansies by right wing radio and Fox.

Option number 2 is probably somewhat better because it continues to allow Bush the necessary rope he needs to hang himself and tarnish his legacy. The Democrats won't profit from it now, but will probably do hansomely by it in 15-20 years.

Answer 7

He's right you know, the war on terror will be fought till the end of time, the cowardly Dem's are still trying to surrender (wont work) they have no plan to pull troops out. they have no plan to run this country. they have no plan for anything

Go Bush!

Answer 8

Speaking of "no plan", isn't that what your buddy W has? No plan? That's why he's abdicating his responsibility for this debacle, he has absolutely no idea of how to get himself out of this mess and he's depending on someone else to bail him out.

Bush a master polititian? Hardly. It's just another episode in his life of utter failure, and like so many conservatives before him, he leaves the mess behind for future administrations and generations to clean up and pay for. And like progressives always have, we'll do the dirty work. Somebody has to, and Bush doesn't seem to have the capacity.

Answer 9

No.
Anyone paying attention since 1996 knew that the Presidents war planners wanted to stay in Iraq permanently.
This is the reason for building permanent bases there.

The surge is over so he can bring the extra troops home. Get the numbers back to pre surge levels.
And as always planned.
"STAY THE COURSE"

Answer 10

The war on terror is the same as this country's wars on poverty, drugs, etc. These are all faceless, abstract enemies that are impossible to defeat b/c there will always be poor people - either through their own laziness or by getting screwed by the corrupt rich. There will always be a group of people who take drugs, and therefore, always people who will be willing to do whatever it takes to profit from it. Finally, there will always be terrorism because there will always be a group that will kill innocent people to obtain what they want.

If the Boston Tea Party happened today, the king of England would have condemned it as an act of terrorism and the colonists who supported American independence would have been labeled as terrorists. I'm not saying that George Washington should be likened to Bin Laden, I'm saying that history is a matter of perception in most cases. The use of military force to go into Afghanistan was appropriate because we were attempting to bring the perpetrator of several thousand deaths to justice. This "war on terror" has nothing to do with our invasion of Iraq. Bush, whom I voted for because I did not like the alternative, is merely the puppet to people like Cheney, who want to expand the American Empire and profit from it.

I think it's time for us to withdraw from Iraq because our goals have been accomplished to the best of our military capabilities. Saddam (a horrible tyrant and murderer) has been removed from power and the Iraqi people now freedom to choose their government and government officials. I think of present-day Iraq as a child and the U.S. as the parent. At some point we have to let Iraq stand on its own and force them to become dependent upon themselves rather than the U.S. The Iraqi people have freedom and democracy, if THEY want to keep it and sustain that type of government, then THEY should fight for it, not the U.S.

I supported Bush in 2004 because I felt he was better than Kerry, which is still the case in my mind. That should tell you everything you need to know about my opinion of Kerry, and the same opinion holds for Gore, Hillary, and Guiliani. I also wanted Bush to finish the job in Iraq, he initiated the whole thing, it'd be nice for him to see it through. I also wanted him to do something about illegal immigration, one of the biggest threats to our national security. On both the issues of Iraq and illegal immigration, Bush has failed tremendously. He's leaving a mess for the next President, Republican or Democrat, to clean up.

Answer 11

He said it would continue since a complete pull out is unwise and he won't do it. It has to be done over time. Do the math.

EDIT: Hey, "stoppdemadness2003" - Bush may have an approval rating of only 39% but Congress's rating is at 17%.