Bush to America: You're expecting too much progress in Iraq. It's only been a couple months.

[kpete]

Bush to America: You're expecting too much progress in Iraq. It's only been a couple months.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 8/25/2007


The problem we have here is that George Bush has lied to the American people about every single aspect of the Iraq war. Why should we start believing him now?
U.S. President George W. Bush, faced with growing calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, pleaded with Americans on Saturday for patience and cited progress in the past two months.

"The success of the past couple of months have shown that conditions on the ground can change -- and they are changing," he said in his weekly radio address. "We cannot expect the new strategy we are carrying out to bring success overnight."

A couple of months? It's been four and a half years.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/08/bush-to-america-youre-expecting-too.html

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And

Despite escalation, Iraqi deaths double. The Iraqi death toll “from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070825/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_counting_the_dead

[annabanana]

1. "Patience, patience, patience. . . ."

2005
Jan.: Bush Urges Patience on Iraq as Election Nears
Jun.: Bush urges patience, long view on Iraq war
Aug.: Bush calls for patience on Iraq mission
Nov.: Bush Urges Patience With Iraq Training

2006
Mar.: Bush calls on Americans to show patience with Iraq
Jun.: After Iraq Visit, Bush Urges Patience
Aug.: Bush Urges Patience on Iraq, Speed in Lebanon
Oct.: Conceding Missteps, Bush Urges Patience on Iraq
Nov.: Bush Urges Patience on Winning Iraq War

2007
Mar: Bush Pleads for Patience in Iraq War
May: Bush Urges Patience on Iraq
Jun.: Bush urges patience on Iraq
Jul.: War In Year 5; Bush Requests Patience
Aug.: Bush pleads for more patience for Iraq war efforts


Jun. 2003: Bush urges patience... Oops!


links here:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1662099

[muntrv]

2. 4 and 1/2 years since "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" and the subsequent

right wing orgy over it.

[LaPera]

3. Stupid fuck Bush - In Jan 2005 there were more troop in Iraq than there are now....

Who in the fuck does he think he's fooling, the "surge" is just a ploy to lie and buy more time....anything to keep his profitable occupation going, the corporations love our hundreds & hundreds of billions in tax dollars, and the oil companies love stealing that unmetered Iraqi oil...Keep the lies & smokescreens coming to keep the profits flowing.

[billyoc]

4. Oh, it's only been a couple of months!

Somehow it seemed longer. :eyes:

[porphyrian]

5. America to Bush: Eat shit, traitor. - n/t

[Disturbed]

7. Securing our Oil in Iraq is hard work.

Those damn Iraqis are stubborn. They don't want to give up our Oil. Be patient. We will get rid of Maliki, who is too friendly with that rabble rousing Iraninan Pres.

[porphyrian]

10. It's getting so you can't even violently bring democracy to unwilling countries for profit anymore.

I mean, people are trying to run a republic like a capitalist empire here...

[Amonester]

6. Series? It's only been a couple of months that they torture Americans

who blow whistle on contractor fraud in Iraq?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1658802
Those who blow whistle on contractor fraud in Iraq face penalties
DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer
August 24, 2007 12:24 PM

DAT'S HUGH 11!!11!!!111!!1

mmm... 'k.


:puke:

[rodeodance]

8. "We cannot expect the new strategy we are carrying out to bring success overnight."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070825/ts_alt_afp/usiraqbushpolitics_070825185707
Bush says Iraq war strategy shows promise

12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush insisted Saturday his new war strategy in Iraq showed promise but needed more time to bear fruit as the White House fought to rebuff calls for a withdrawal of US troops.


"We are still in the early stages of our new operations," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "But the success of the past couple of months have shown that conditions on the ground can change -- and they are changing."

In a clear jab at critics demanding a drawdown of US troops, Bush added: "We cannot expect the new strategy we are carrying out to bring success overnight."

The president said that every month since January, US forces have killed or captured on average more than 1,500 Al-Qaeda fighters and other insurgents in Iraq.

Bush's positive portrayal of the unpopular war, part of a broader campaign by the White House to fend off calls for an early withdrawal of US forces, came despite a plea by a prominent Republican senator to begin at least a symbolic pullout of troops.

[kenny blankenship]

9. And in a couple MORE months ANOTHER 160 Americans will be dead

hundreds more wounded and maimed.

[liberal N proud]

11. This asshole really can't count

Did he really forget what year he started this occupation?

[Solly Mack]

12. and yet America tolerates it

Bush Inc sits around laughing at Americans...they know how far they can push Americans...they see what Americans will take without doing anything about it