Bush says Iraqi troops playing bigger role

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05558727.htm

Bush says Iraqi troops playing bigger role

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, facing waning public support for Iraq war, said on Wednesday Iraqi troops are taking a bigger role against the Iraqi insurgency and offered hope U.S. troops could come home.

Bush emerged from a war council with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Peter Pace, new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, to claim progress in the training of Iraqi troops, which he calls a prerequisite to a U.S. pullout.

But he offered no timetable.

A CNN/Gallup/USA Today poll last month said only 32 percent of Americans approved of Bush's handling of the war, which he launched in 2003 citing the threat of weapons of mass destruction possessed by Saddam Hussein's government. Such weapons were never found.

"Over 30 percent of the Iraqi troops are in the lead on these offensive operations. We've got troops embedded with them, and that's an important part of the training mission. But nevertheless, the Iraqis are showing more and more capability to take the fight to the enemy," Bush said on the steps of the White House Rose Garden.

[LiberalVoice]

1. "Over 30 percent of Iraqi troops are in the lead on these offensive ops"

Is this true? Can we check these numbers?

[sabra]

2. you know how good the administration is with numbers

a decimal here, a decimal there... real number is .03%

[NoPasaran]

3. Why do the decimals hate America?

[Spurt]

4. Is this true?

Why of course it is.
Just as true as every other pronouncement the fool has made about Iraq.

[Dhalgren]

5. That would be 30% of the one battalion of Iraqi troops that are

actually combat ready. So, that number is about, what...240 or so...

[BlueEyedSon]

6. No.... that's the beauty of it!

[liveoaktx]

7. Bush .... Is...... Lying

McCain on ONE battalion

Pentagon Press Conf on this on Sep 29

I was considering this last night, that the Senators on the committee hearing this KNOW Bush is prevaricating... and they are saying nothing.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Losing TWO-THIRDS of the Iraqi battalions in bushWorld means

"Iraqi troops playing bigger role"

ROTFLMAO!

[Javaman]

9. I think moron* is purposely boosting the numbers so..

that it appears that the Iraqi's really have a handle on things, but with the U.S. media being what it is: shit, the sheeple will believe this idiot, while in reality, moron* will actually leave the Iraqi's left holding the cake of a civil war. Spin, spin, spin