Bush Said to Be Frustrated by Level of Public Support in Iraq...

[bridgit]

'President Bush made clear in a private meeting this week that he was concerned about the lack of progress in Iraq and frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater public support for the American mission, participants in the meeting said Tuesday.

Those who attended a Monday lunch at the Pentagon that included the president’s war cabinet and several outside experts said Mr. Bush carefully avoided expressing a clear personal view of the new prime minister of Iraq, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

But in what participants described as a telling line of questioning, Mr. Bush did ask each of the academic experts for their assessment of the prime minister’s effectiveness.

“I sensed a frustration with the lack of progress on the bigger picture of Iraq generally — that we continue to lose a lot of lives, it continues to sap our budget,” said one person who attended the meeting. “The president wants the people in Iraq to get more on board to bring success.”'

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0816-01.htm

bush has lost his mind x(

[Monkeyman]

1. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism

[MindMatter]

15. After all we've done for the Iraqis ...

Bush is "frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater public support for the American mission".

Geez, what is it gonna take to win over the Iraqis?

[Monkeyman]

19. To leave now

[theoldman]

2. I will bet that Bush is looking for someone to blame.

This guy will never accept the fact that he screwed up. He will remain in denial until the day he dies.

[bridgit]

4. as the allies closed in, Hitler was blaming the German people...

for not fighting hard enough, castigating the very people that gave him the world that he then destroyed with his own hands

[april]

3. I would like to tell him a thing or 900 what a idiot wake up

:mad: 

[bridgit]

7. welcome to du, april...

and i agree :patriot: :kick:

[BeyondThePale]

5. His inability to understand why the Iraqi people do not support...

his imperial adventure is quite telling.

Here is a white patriarch bring guns and bibles, and the slaughtered inhabitants are not grateful.

What a fucking idiot.

[jedr]

6. Insanity is continuing to to the same thing;

And expect a different result....The man just doesn't get it!

[bridgit]

9. while my sense is that you CAN get a square peg into a round hole...

if you smack it with a big enough hammer x( the world is really not better served by mashing them as such

[jedr]

12. If the only tool you own is a hammer;

then everything begins to look like a nail!

[bridgit]

17. then i say, build someone in need a house & home instead...

:hi:

[sweetheart]

8. I'm sure he's laughin' his ass off

After he gets off camera, he is having a good laugh. Its just a joke, as long as the
republicans stay in power, he can say whatever he wants and people have to believe him.
... what a buch of morans... he's laughin' his ass off.

[bridgit]

11. believe me, it's more a villainous little cackle, my friend...

not the wholesome laugh we would hope to hear round well poured drinks amongst friends & family :hi:

[sweetheart]

13. i'm sure its more like a hip swivel

Yes, dubious it is a civil laugh, the grunted gufaww of a broken man driven by
fear and lust to betray all that he loves, and finally to laugh at his cynical
accomplishment as another rapist who gets to say, "comeon, deal with it.".. the
new rapists have moved in to the block, watch out or you'll get raped, deal with
it, (to the tune of republican laughter and race purity songs).

If a cultural historian were to recapitulate history as a cycle of reincarnated
souls who've been starting the same war for centuries under different flags, is
the laughter any less cynical, or the avoidable tragedy any less sad.

[bridgit]

14. true, i often think there is but one face in one pantheon to war...

somewhere ~

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. If they weren't afraid of getting killed, they'd be flinging flowers.

Their just a bunch of ingrates who don't understand that destroying their country and bringing on a civil war was absolutely necessary to reassure the American people that their "safe".

[SunDrop23]

16. Public said to be frustrated with jackass in the White House (nfm)

[bridgit]

18. e-yup...

:thumbsup:

[lectrobyte]

20. I'm frustrated that 28 to 32 percent of my fellow citizens still think *'s

doing a good job.

[bridgit]

21. there is that odd 30% number in all these samples, 30% still like Bush...

30% still hated Clinton, 30% still think Saddam did this or that, etc; in the survey world it has to be that 'magical goofy factor' from which virtually all other data & elections can be skewed & won

[ima_sinnic]

22. gee, ya think? maybe if you slaughtered another 10,000 or so, they'd

"appreciate" you and everything you've "done for them."

what a total fucking clueless loser!!! :grr:

[bridgit]

23. kinda what i was thinking = bush "total fucking clueless loser"...

x(

[dflprincess]

24. “The president wants the people in Iraq to get more on board

to bring success". If they don't, maybe he'll go into a pout and just take "his" troops and go home (and tell mommy that no one would play nice with him).

[bridgit]

25. love that pic of crusader rabbit...

i stole it fair & square :hi: