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on Wednesday September 24, @04:51PM
from the WP dept.
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National Guard, Reserve May Plug Holes
Breaking: NBC Office bombed in Baghdad (09/25)
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WP -September 24
By Dana Milbank and Colum Lynch
Bush's empty-handed departure after two days at the United Nations, combined with warnings from the military that it will soon need fresh U.S. troops to relieve those in Iraq, makes it increasingly likely that the U.S. military will have to rely on its own reservists to do the job -- a politically dicey move for Bush, whose domestic support already has declined because of the continuing instability in Iraq.
Compounding the pressure, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is considering ordering the total withdrawal of U.N. personnel from Iraq, a step recommended by his top political and security advisers after two bombing attacks against the world body in Baghdad over the past month, according to U.N. and U.S. officials. A U.N. pullout would seriously undercut efforts to assign the United Nations a broader role in overseeing Iraq's political transition.
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The fraud who would “return honor and dignity to the White House” is only as good as his word, worthless.
From Dubya’s phony speech to the red staters which FOX aired on the day of his UN speech September 23,2003:
HUME’s question, “Let me start off talking about Iraq. A few weeks back, when these terrorists began to appear on the scene evidently from outside, you said, "Bring 'em on." What did you mean by that?”
BUSH’s answer, “Well, I was really talking to our troops. I was saying to our troops in the theater that some in the region felt like they could come and take you on. Some felt like -- some terrorists, that is -- felt like they could beat us. And my point was we're plenty tough and we will take them on there. They've chosen to fight. They, being al Qaeda types, Ansar Islam types, terrorist groups have chosen to fight American and coalition forces in Iraq. And we are prepared to battle, and we will.”
HUME," From a military point of view, do you regard that as a welcome or unwelcome development?”
BUSH, “That's an interesting question, because you know I'm a man of peace. And obviously I would hope that we wouldn't have combat. I also live in a real world of being the president during a war on terror. So I guess I would rather fight them there than here. I know I would rather fight them there than here, and I know would rather fight them there than in other remote parts of the world, where it may be more difficult to find them.”
From France’s Jacques Chirac’s UN speech directed to the boy who possesses “moral clarity”:"No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules," he said. "The war, launched without the authorisation of the security council, shook the multilateral system. The UN has just been through one of the most grave crises in its history."
From the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan’s speech directed to the dolt “uniter, not a divider”: He also condemned the spiffy new GOP PNAC doctrine of preemptive military intervention, arguing that it could lead to the unjustified "lawless use of force" and posed a "fundamental challenge" to world peace and stability. "My concern is that, if it were to be adopted, it could set precedents that resulted in a proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification," said Mr. Annan. "This logic represents a fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly, world peace and stability have rested for the last 58 years."
They don’t seem to agree that Junior is “a man of peace”. I wonder who has a credibility gap?
At last year's General Assembly meeting Dubya warned that the United Nations was in danger of becoming irrelevant. Now he has his hands out. Does it make sense? Since the fool is begging for the UN to get him out of this jam, of his own making, then he better make concessions. That isn’t what happened. Dubya can’t be seen as submitting to the UN because that will drive into the dim consciousness of the red staters that their “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” failed and maybe should consider doing thinking that includes fine distinctions. Nuanced thought would never have allowed him to use his “16 words”. Maybe if he did spend more time in clarifying his thoughts he would not have refused to declassify the 28-page redaction about the Saudi government's role in financing the hijackings, even though the Saudi foreign minister flew to the US to ask the president to do that. A clear thinker wouldn’t have allowed his team to intentionally disclose information identifying a covert agent, as they did with Joseph Wilson’s wife, a CIA operative on weapons of mass destruction. Finally, a detailed thinker would not have blown off the Presidential Daily Briefing which stated “bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States for years and that (his) group apparently maintained a support base here”. Instead of having a summer vacation, if he
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