The decider speaks:
President Bush said Wednesday he would “not be rushed” into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq, saying that in a round of consultations he heard both some interesting ideas and some “ideas that would lead to defeat.”
“And I reject those ideas,” Bush said after meeting with top generals and Defense Department officials at the Pentagon. He said those ideas included “leaving before the job is done, ideas such as not helping this (Iraqi) government take the necessary and hard steps to be able to do its job.”
Bush spoke with reporters after wrapping up a round of high-level talks on revising his Iraq war policy. Earlier he spoke by telephone with two Kurdish leaders in Iraq as part of what the White House called efforts to forge a “moderate bloc” behind the shaky central government in Baghdad.
You know – there should be no real sense of urgency on the situation. Things are going so well in Iraq, why would he have to hurry up? I mean this is a typical “ideal” day in Iraq:
Gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped dozens of people Thursday from a major commercial area in central Baghdad, the second mass abduction in the capital in a month.
The attackers drove up to the busy al-Sanak area in about 10 sport utility vehicles and began rounding up shop owners and bystanders. Two police officers said 50 to 70 people were abducted.
The al-Sanak area — one of the capital’s main commercial districts — holds stores selling auto spare parts, agricultural equipment and the small power generators that are ubiquitous in Baghdad due to severe power shortages.
Perhaps we should change that article to “50 to 70 people were abducted by George Bush”. That is what’s happening. He has ignored every expert for years and now won’t “rush” into a decision, even though numerous ideas are out there. While he sits around twiddling his thumbs, more people get killed, tortured, kidnapped, etc. From now on, every single abduction or murder in Iraq must be the sole fault of George Bush. He had no problems with rushing us into this war, so he should have no problem rushing into fixing it. True he could just be trying to wait and wait and wait until someone else can take office and clean his fuck up. The wingnuts idol has never been able to fix his problems, why should he start now?