President Bush says he won't pull troops out of Iraq "before the mission is complete."

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/

President Bush says he won't pull troops out of Iraq "before the mission is complete."

Yellow banner @ top

[Toots]

1. When the money ends the troops will come home..

Stop the money flow.......

[Megahurtz]

26. I Wish.

[saigon68]

47. Bush Bots like Joementum will keep shoveling the $$$$$$$$$$

[elehhhhna]

2. Media still refuses to ask Bush to define "the mission". Breaking LOL

[MissMillie]

10. Yeah... We've been waiting for that for a while, haven't we?

How can we get them to do that?

[stellanoir]

3. Shocking newsflash

I've never heard him say that before. /sarcasm

[Phredicles]

4. Any chance that this time he said what "the mission" IS?

Or any chance that anyone bothered to ask?:eyes:

[radfringe]

11. no, but he's pressing buttons

[calimary]

32. My husband keeps hollering at the TV - WHAT'S THE JOB, george?

WHAT'S THE JOB, IDJIT????

[indepat]

5. What's the phucking mission?

[MGD]

6. Support and defend the democratically elected government of Iraq

until they are able to support and defend themselves? :hide:

[ronnie624]

14. There is no democratically elected government

in Iraq. There is only a new dictatorship, installed by the U.S. government.

Try again.

[MGD]

16. They had a larger voter turnout in their last elections than we did in ous.

Actually, I don't think we have ever in our history even come close to the 70% turnout that they experienced on December 15th. Is that what you call a dictatorship?

[ronnie624]

20. Twaddle.

the extreme chaos surrounding the Iraqi "election" was well reported. Perhaps not by the corporate owned cable media, but here, on DU, there was no shortage of information.

My busy schedule does not allow much time for searching for links in order to abridge someone's ignorance, so you will have to research the topic yourself.

[MGD]

22. Karl Rove stole the Iraqi election too? Is that what you're saying?

"here, on DU, there was no shortage of information."
And I'm sure it was completely unbiased and factual as it always is when discussing George Bush's Iraq policies.

"My busy schedule does not allow much time for searching for links in order to abridge someone's ignorance, so you will have to research the topic yourself."
I have researched it. The only ignorance here is your assertion that there is no democratically elected government in Iraq.

[ronnie624]

29. Oh, have another slurp of kool-aid.

Clearly, you choose to exist in the "reality" created by corporatist propaganda.

[MGD]

36. I was going to say the same thing to you but decided to leave the Kool Aid out of the discussion.

"Clearly, you choose to exist in the "reality" created by corporatist propaganda."

As opposed to the "reality" which you have constructed to support your paranoid delusions? Absolutely. You are, after all, the one making the completely unfounded claim that there isn't a democratically elected government in Iraq. Please, qualify that assertion with some evidence or at least some evidence based rationalizations.


Purple Fingered Propaganda?

[ronnie624]

44. How strange,

seeing the "purple finger" meme on DU. The owners of the cable media used it in their propaganda. I clearly remember numerous Republican nit-wits in Congress, celebrating Iraqi "democracy", by displaying purple fingers, but seeing such nonsense from a poster with more than a thousand posts on DU, is rather surprising.

As I feel no compulsion to qualify my assertions with evidence that you clearly have no interest in anyway, I shall decline to waste my time doing so. My primary reason for frequenting DU, is to keep myself abreast of world events and important issues, not to stroke my ego, arguing with right-wingers.

Good day to you.


(edited for punctuation)

[No Exit]

39. Rather odd that a "democratically elected government" needs outside invaders to defend it...

I mean, "democracy" and "elections" are supposed to be innately appealing to the oppressed masses... so why would such things need foreigners (our guys) in Humvees wearing armor to, er, "support" and "defend" the government they brought about?

"Sometime after last November’s Presidential election, I was told by past and present intelligence and military officials, the Bush Administration decided to override Pelosi’s objections and covertly intervene in the Iraqi election. A former national-security official told me that he had learned of the effort from “people who worked the beat”—those involved in the operation. It was necessary, he added, “because they couldn’t afford to have a disaster.”

A Pentagon consultant who deals with the senior military leadership acknowledged that the American authorities in Iraq “did an operation” to try to influence the results of the election. “They had to,” he said. “They were trying to make a case that Allawi was popular, and he had no juice.” A government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon’s civilian leaders said, “We didn’t want to take a chance.”"

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact

Golly, there's just nothin' so Amur'can as "supporting the democratically elected government of Iraq."

Three cheers for Our Leader, President Bush!

[ronnie624]

45. Thanks for the link, No Exit.

I almost posted a link to that article, along with a number of others, and then deleted the entire mess.

What would be the point? The poster to whom you replied is still wagging a purple finger.

[No Exit]

49. You're welcome!

So far, I've found Seymour Hersh to be pretty reliable. Unfortunately, though, I always end up wishing something like "Oh, please, let him be wrong THIS time!" Example: Hersh's predictions that Cowboy Shrub will attack Iran regardless of the obvious stupidity of that plan.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

40. . . .

:popcorn:

[saigon68]

48. LOL

[aquart]

7. Can we have him committed?

[arewenotdemo]

25. Laura says no

Barney is conspicuously silent

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. luckily, the "mission" is a secret. So it could happen at any time or never.

After all, every justification for this war was proven to be false. Now that IraqNam is spiraling into a hell of our own making, the Bushistas pin their hopes on Jim Baker and Sandra Day O'Connor. (SANDRA? What you doin here, babe?) Of course, just in case they disagree with Jimbo, Cheney has organized a DOD study that will contradict whatever Jombo's group eventually comes up with.

[heidler1]

30. The Baker bunch are just buying time for * to say "OK we did it."

IMO * thinks if he's happy with the war's end situation; everyone will be happy and he might be right for once. Who will say "NO Way, let the war go on"? Some of us will grumble, but who will want the damn stupid war to continue?

[calimary]

41. Unless they're ghost-writing a book for him called "If I Did It"...

n/t

[goclark]

9. It should not be his mission it should be our mission

to have him IMPEACHED!

What happened to the idea of the IMPEACHMENT by citizens?

I remember reading that there were several city governments that have started a process of impeachment that comes not from Congress but from the citizens ~ yes/no?

[Tyler Durden]

12. Wish his "Daddy" had pulled out of "Babs."

ew that's a pretty creepy image (but a nice wish).

[durtee librul]

34. hubby says

the best part of him ran down her legs....creepy yes, but look what happened...that's even creepier!

[madinmaryland]

13. What IS the "Mission"? n/t

[No Exit]

37. Shrub's "Mission": "To git myse'f IM-peached!"

Progess continues to be made.

[VegasWolf]

15. Bush!! Put down the OIL BARREL and walk slowly away with your hands on your head!! nt

[truthisfreedom]

17. Except he neglected to tell anyone what the mission was. If it was finding WMDs, he's SOL.

What a hoot, huh? I can only laugh at this pathetic little man.

[ddbaj]

18. Bush has said many times what "The mission" is

To turn Iraq into a regional ally. Sadly, the only way I see this happening is if we install a brutal Saddam-esque dictator who is pro-US.

[No Exit]

38. Er... wasn't Saddam formerly an ally of ours?

Or did millions of internet users just imagine they saw that picture of him heartily shaking hands with a certain Amur'can politico?

Yeah, that's a great way to get allies: bomb 'em, invade 'em, burn 'em out, an' then give 'em a big ol' Texas handshake.

Bush/Cheney's mission: line one's own personal wallet as long as possible. Retire in globalist splendor. Be a citizen of no particular nation (nations are obsolete, anyway), so you don't have to follow any particular nation's laws. The only law globalists heed is the law of the jungle: more assets=more power; the big fish eats the smaller fish. I think it's called "predation".

[Eurobabe]

19. With MSM reporting Iraq is in state of civil war, I'd say

Mission Accomplished, Bush.

Get the troops the phuck outta there!

[montieg]

21. I thought we had accomplished the mission?????

Don't I remember some banner or something?

[LiberalFighter]

28. Where is the "Mission Accomplished" banner?

Would be appropriate for the troops to send it to him with a little note.

Or lots of people should send him a photo of the "Mission Accomplished"

[olddad56]

23. Pull em out, the mission was accomplished years ago.

[emald]

24. does anyone take this idiot seriously?

Can one person matter less and make more noise than little mouse pResident? Bring it on, jerk.

[warrens]

27. The 500-Year-War Redux

What a moron. Unless he redefines the mission (or actually, DEFINES the mission) as "create total chaos in the Middle East and totally destroy any legitimacy the United States ever had," I don't think his mission is going to be completed in our lifetimes.

[Thor_MN]

31. The mission being the avoidance of being found guilty of war crimes?

I'm expecting the pig farm to be sold sometime within the next year and * and Co to disappear to South America sometime before Jan 2008.

[Anakin Skywalker]

33. I Thought It Was Already "Mission Accomplished"? That's What His @$$ Said Aboard the Carrier.

[Occulus]

35. Then I guess we're done.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

42. he is such a pathetic little man. i am so ashamed.

i am so ashamed to have this little man represent my country. humiliated. mortified at the thought of what the world must think. saddened by what he has done. i just want to wake up and this all have been a bad dream.

[zann725]

43. He keeps trying to frenzy this catastrophy BEFORE Dems take over in Jan. '07.

He's in total "denial" of his minority, and "lame" politial position. In no way, has he shown ANY effort to "work with" the Dems since the Dems' win recently. Certainly his hiring of Poppy's "old team" of experts, acts AS IF Chimpy the Emperor STILL doesn't realize he 'has no clothes.'

With 2 more years to serve as Prez...could someone please bring this space-man back to reality?!

[BenDavid]

46. Bumper sticker

George W.Bush...Creating the terrorists our kids will have to fight."