Bush to define Iraq goals

[radfringe]

OHHHH goody - 14 months AFTER invading we find out what the goals are..... errrrr...or at least another VERSION of goals

Bush to define Iraq goals
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/8730139.htm
Amid warnings of more violence, the president plans a speech to the nation Monday to spell out his strategy for turning over control of Iraq.
Posted on Sat, May. 22, 2004
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND JOSEPH GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers

BATON ROUGE, La. - President Bush will outline a "clear strategy" for Iraq in a major speech Monday night, White House aides said Friday, even as top U.S. generals warned Congress that Bush's plan to transfer power to Iraqis by June 30 is likely to spawn more violence.

Bush's speech Monday at 7 p.m. CDT at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., is designed to reassure Americans about the war and the hand-off of partial sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30. Bad news from Iraq has helped drive Bush's popularity and job-approval ratings to the lowest point in his presidency and threatens his bid for re-election.

As of Friday afternoon, administration officials hadn't asked the television networks to carry the speech live, but the White House is clearly hoping for a major television audience.

---snip----

The president, a self-confessed C-student at college, also offered words of wisdom on family, moral values and honor to the graduating class of 3,162 students.

"Let me begin with a very valuable lesson I've learned -- a lesson that has influenced my well-being -- and here it is: Listen to your mother," Bush said, to laughter. "My mom has a way of speaking her mind. When I paid attention, I benefited. When I didn't, I paid the price. That's how it still works."
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so did your MAMA tell you what to do about Iraq? Silly me and here I was thinking CHENEY was telling you what to do all along....

[shraby]

1. I don't think "Mama"

did such a good job raising her young'uns. They all seem to be lacking in empathy among other things.

[saigon68]

11. THESE GUYS DON'T LIKE HIS DEFINITIONS

Iraqi armed militiamen take position in the center of Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday, May, 21, 2004 after American tanks charged into the center of this holy city on and shelled positions held by fighters loyal to a radical cleric who launched an uprising against the U.S.-led coalition last month. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

[saigon68]

14. NOR DOES THIS SPIRITED GROUP

Demonstrators carry Hezbollah and Iraqi flags as they chant 'death to America, death to Israel' during a demonstration in Beirut southern suburb, Lebanon, Friday May 21, 2004. Thousands of Shiite Muslim demonstrators wearing white shrouds converged to protest coalition forces action in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. (AP Photo/Adnan Hajj Ali)





Thousands of Shiite protesters carry Hezbollah flags and portraits of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, during a demonstration in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, to protest coalition forces action in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala Friday May 21, 2004. U.S. soldiers and militiamen loyal to al-Sadr have been clashing in the the holy cities.. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)

[punpirate]

2. And he will say anything but the simple truth, which is...

... that the plan is to rule the Middle East from Iraq with absolute military power, and to make Iraq a privatizer's wet dream.

Methinks Dubya has listened to his mother a bit too much....

[izzie]

3. I thin k Barbara has a failed President in her back ground also.

Maybe it is a gene thing? No empathy, longing for power and one term Presidents. It is interesting that this week it is hear Mother, when he is down in polls and he does not hear his father, but only God when he is up in polls! Does that mean anything?

[Disturbed]

4. He minded his Mom.

She said that she didn't wish to mess up her beautiful mind looking at cofins coming back from his wars.

Moma Bush is ugly inside and out. So is he.

[saigon68]

16. wonder what Mom thinks of this?

[JM]

5. So let me get this straight...

...The advice chain is

God->Dick->Babs->W?
God->Babs->Dick->W?
Dick->Babs->W?
Dick->God->Babs->W?

I may be confused...Either it is one of the above or Babs and Uncle Dick play Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide who gets their hand up W's rear end...

JM

[bullimiami]

6. He already did..."Im gonna kill 'em"

Says it all.

[JoFerret]

7. Oooo....I can't wait

for this lying monumental screw-up account of incompetence. And then watch the press hail his eloquence and effectiveness because he makes three veiled references to the gospels, four to crusades for freedom and eight mentions of war on terra and does not fall down.

[0007]

8. Next week junior tells us how he pulled himself up by the bootstrap

[Tansy_Gold]

17. Make that the jackboot strap

.

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. I'm CERTAIN there's something else I'd rather watch

on Monday night. But if he's taking questions, it could be vewwwy, vewwwy entertaining.

[Tuttle]

15. This better not preempt the rerun of the Simpsons

or Friends or Seinfeld or King of Queens or ... I don't know: the Weather Channel (I love Marnie).

Tut-tut

[snippy]

10. What kind of dipshit devises his strategy more than a year after the fact?

Is Bush trying to appear more incompetent than he actually is?

[kentuck]

12. Really! A day late and a dollar short, so to speak..

Unbelievable.

[colonel odis]

13. i'll save him the trouble of going on tv

iraq goals:

grab oil
help halliburton
take attention off complete screw-up at home
create new world order (and not that p*ssy stuff my dad used to talk about)
make lots of money for friends

there. we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming

[Moderator]

18. Duplicate topic, please discuss here, thanks

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x572076