CNN: "140,000 U.S. troops are expected to remain in Iraq for more than...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...a year after the handover."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/23/bush.iraq/index.html

The quote, in its full context: "Aides said the series of speeches is intended to explain the process of transition and, since about 140,000 U.S. troops are expected to remain in Iraq for more than a year after the handover, to prepare Americans for continued casualties."

So the truth of the matter is that Bush is talking about 140,000 troops plus the ones required to replace the ones who get killed...the "fungible" ones, as Rummy would say...just like he asked for $87 billion, then another $25 billion on top of that, and estimates another $50 billion in fiscal year 2005...maybe more. He'll get back to you on that.



"Americans are not the running kind. When this country makes a commitment, we see it through," Bush said."

UNLESS an American's Pappy gets him into the National Guard so he doesn't have to go to Viet Nam. When the COUNTRY makes a commitment, YES. When the FRAT BOY makes a commitment...come on, are you KIDDING?



"Bush's overall job approval rating fell from 49 percent on April 8 in the CNN/Time poll to 46 percent in the most recent survey in mid-May. During the same period, his disapproval rating rose from 47 percent to 49 percent -- the first time in his administration that more people disapproved of his job performance than approved.

Bush's team hopes to do a better job "getting Bush's voice" into the mix, one aide said last week."

Tune in tonight for the first installment of The Bush Mix.

[arcane1]

1. in other words, June 30 is just a PR event, nothing more

no surprise there. But June 30 is a long way from November, I doubt the voting populace will be looking back fondly on that date after months of more dead American kids

[tom_paine]

2. Right. A Total Bushevik Potemikin Lie

I swaer they have NOTHING on Joe Stalin and Ole' Adolf.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Well, he's using tonight to "prepare Americans for continued casualties"..

...AFTER June 30th.

I wonder what his poll numbers will look like at this time tomorrow?

[arcane1]

6. after June 30, people will REALLY start wondering WTF we're dying for

good luck "preparing" us, Mr Bush. I think you better prepare yourself for a new home in November

we should make his dumb ass move to Iraq

[Jacobin]

4. The key words are "MORE than a year"

Its fricking permanent until we are run out or a new president is elected in the U.S.

[Darranar]

5. Far more than a year...

we are NOT going to get out of there any time soon, at least according to their wishes.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. Tweety just said on MSNBC "If he has everything right, we ought to...

...be able to come home in a COUPLE OF YEARS."

Chris Matthews' advice to Bush tonight on how to give a speech the American public will embrace.

Right before Matthews was a former speechwriter for Pappy Bush. She was asked if there was anything that father and son have in common in their speeches. Her reply: "Neither of them like lofty rhetoric."

:wtf:

She also said that the economy right now is "terrific...1,000,000 new jobs...but it is being overshadowed by the bad news coming out of Iraq."

:spank: