LAT/AP: Bush radio address: Iraq Must Know It Won't Be Abandoned

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush: Iraq Must Know It Won't Be Abandoned
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
June 17, 2006

CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush, reminding listeners of his surprise trip to Baghdad, said Saturday it was important for the Iraqi people to know after three years of war that "America will not abandon them after we have come this far."

Bush spoke in his weekly radio address as Republicans and Democrats jockeyed for political position on the war with an eye toward the November elections. Following the lead of the Senate, the House on Friday rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq after a ferociously partisan debate....

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Bush flew to Iraq on Tuesday to meet with Iraq's new prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and members of his cabinet...."I told them that the future of Iraq is in their hands," Bush said in his radio address. "And I told them that America is a nation that keeps its word, and America will stand with them as we work toward our shared goal: a free Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself."...

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"I traveled to Baghdad to personally show our nation's commitment to a free Iraq, because it is vital for the Iraqi people to know with certainty that America will not abandon them after we have come this far," Bush said in the radio address.

"The challenges that remain in Iraq are serious. We face determined enemies who remain intent on killing the innocent, and defeating these enemies will require more sacrifice and the continued patience of our country. But our efforts in Iraq are well worth it, the mission is necessary for the security of our country, and we will succeed."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13jun17,0,1754868.story

[LibDemAlways]

1. In the first place Pres. Moron never

set foot in Baghdad proper - only in the heavily fortified Green Zone. Had he appeared on a Baghdad street, his life would have been over within seconds, and he knows it.

Second, the Iraqi people remind us every day with bomb blasts aplenty that they want us the hell out of their country - the sooner the better. This crap he's spewing is strictly for the consumption of the Deliverance demographic at home that believes everything FAUX news tells them.

[antonialee839]

22. Exactly, he snuck into the Green Zone like a sniveling

little weasel and is once again trying to rewrite actual events. I'm sure the Iraqi people curse the day this moron was born.

[Stanchetalarooni]

2. We will ravage you. Torture you. Terrorize you. But.........

....But, we will not abandon you.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Occupy you. fleece you. steal from you.

[LibDemAlways]

6. Bomb you. kill you, main you, bust in on you......

jail you, deny you due process, humiliate you, and expect gratitude from you.

[bedazzled]

4. i bet they pray to be "abandoned"

every day

[0007]

5. 'Tis a sad day that the most powerful nation in the world has to

sneak their wimpy leader into an occupied country like a scared dog.

....and we wonder why the world hates us so!!

[LibDemAlways]

8. "We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators..."

Cheney on Meet the Press, March 16, 2003.

Why no welcoming committee in Baghdad? Think maybe the world has caught on to the fact that Cheney was misquoted, that what he actually said was "We, will, in fact, be greeted as liberators of Iraq's resources and the Iraqi people will launch a sustained and powerful insurgency until we are driven out, but in the meantime our friends at Halliburton will profit mightily. And, hell, we promise to increase business for the Iraqi undertakers and casket makers while we're at it, so it's a win-win."

[lonestarnot]

7. Won't be abandoned, just flattened until there is no sign of life, nut'n

left but our treasury.

[MADem]

9. Sheesh...we won't abandon you, no matter how much or how often

you BEG us to do just that!

[VegasWolf]

10. We're in for the long haul, at least until your oil is gone. nt

[aquart]

11. But it's all right to abandon the United States of America?

It's okay to leave US defenseless, broke, and unprepared for disaster of any kind?

[ladjf]

12. The American people need to know that they won't be abandoned.

[acmavm]

13. The unelected fraud is going to be flapping his lips about this trip to

Baghdad for months. It's all he's got. And that sure as hell ain't much.

[truthisfreedom]

14. why doesn't bush just move to the United States of Iraq? he loves their

country a hell of a lot more than he likes ours. and he will have a whole different population's polls and elections to manipulate!

he can just delare himself prezdunt there, and nobody can stop him from being the "decider!"

[Rex]

15. Not a mention of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Bush slimed his way over to Iraq in the dead of night and way under the radar. He then has the balls to act like it was a heroic thing he did? What a total Reptard, I bet he peed all over himself when they got close to Baghdad.

[Sadie5]

16. Iraq Must Know It Won't Be Abandoned

What about those abandoned in the US. Every word that passes his lips has something to do with Iraqi freedom. Meanwhile in the US our freedoms are being stripped away daily. good jobs are scarce,the economy is in the toilet. No mention of these other problems in his radio address.

[struggle4progress]

17. Link's broken.

Here's a version:
http://www.forbes.com/business/commerce/feeds/ap/2006/06/17/ap2822011.html

[DeepModem Mom]

18. Thanks for that link to the same article! LA Times has done this before -

linking to a different article. Sorry -- I know it was working when posted. I always double check.

[daleo]

19. Bush won't abandon Iraq, but he will abandon New Orleans

Insane nut.

[MadMaddie]

20. My exact thoughts.....he will abandon the American people

[otohara]

21. No Oil in New Orleans

and if anyone thinks that the US just spent billions on a brand new shiny, 8 foot ball fields long, well they just fooling themselves.