Kristol: Bush ‘Was Furious’ Over NYT Report Of 2008 Withdrawal »

[rodeodance]

Ha ha. glad he is mad. ha ha

http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Iraq

Kristol: Bush ‘Was Furious’ Over NYT Report Of 2008 Withdrawal »


The New York Times reported this weekend that the Bush administration is developing “concepts for reducing American combat forces in Iraq by as much as half next year, according to senior administration officials in the midst of the internal debate.” The White House immediately tried to tamp down the story.

If there was ever any lingering doubt about whether the White House might finally be considering a redeployment, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol put those hopes to bed this morning on Fox News. He revealed that Bush is “furious” over the NYT report and that the White House is aggressively pushing back on the story over the Memorial Day weekend. Kristol said:

The president apparently was furious about the New York Times article Saturday. One senior White House official went out of his way to call me Saturday and left me a voicemail saying that. So, since they don’t normally do that on Saturdays, I think maybe it’s even true.

Watch it:

[rodeodance]

1. Kristol snitching on Bush. Oh glory days:-)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. what's that horrid ad tune, "he's mad, I'm glad. . . "

all it will take is a few more pushes before he cracks in public.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Time to retreat from our lies." - Commander AWOL

"But we republicons did make a Massive Boodle of War Profits
while the getting was good. So sorry about my WMD lies. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

[partylessinOhio]

4. Oh, really? Can't Shrub speak for himself?

[formercia]

9. Nobody takes Junior seriously any more.

Kristol leaking a story hasn't much credibility either.

The head of PNAC already.

[Toots]

5. Oh I'm sure it is true

After reading reports of increases in troop size to over two hundred thousand by Christmas it seems quite likely. They will have a forty percent reduction in troop strength and claim it is evidence of American Victory so Republicans will get elected in November. It is so obvious and yet most Americans will fall for it..There will still be about a hundred and twenty five thousand troops there so nothing will actually have changed and the Democrats will fall for it hook line and sinker. It is how Politics works and this Administration knows about politics..

[formercia]

6. Back to pre-surge levels

it's all a numbers game. Same troops, stuck in the same shit-hole.

[davhill]

7. What he really meant was

a 2009 withdrawal. After he leaves office and can snipe at his successor for "losing the war."

[DemGa]

8. Furious over their own leak?

Uh, yeah right.