[Vision2020] Bush Says He Won't Be Swayed To Withdraw

[Carl Westberg]

Tony writes:  "History will record Bush as one of our finest Presidents - 
and his critics as bitter and small people."  Hey.  I'm a Bush critic and I 
am rather small of stature.   I'm hurt.  By the way, does anyone want a cat? 
  A real nice, sweet, affectionate cat?  I'm still trying to find a home for 
the guy.    He, I don't believe, cares about politics.   Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: "Tony" <tonytime at clearwire.net>
>To: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bush Says He Won't Be Swayed To Withdraw
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:33:17 -0800
>
>Yeah Pat, the leftists radicals on this list wouldn't know a principled man
>if he treated the interns appropriately.  History will record Bush as one 
>of
>our finest presidents - and his critics as bitter and small people.
>
>May you be blessed by the grace of God this holiday season.     -T
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:29 PM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bush Says He Won't Be Swayed To Withdraw
>
>
> > Thank God! Someone who takes a stand and will not be swayed by polls.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> > To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:00 PM
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Bush Says He Won't Be Swayed To Withdraw
> >
> >
> >>From the today's (November 28, 2006) Roundup edition of the Army times -
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Bush says he won't be swayed to withdraw
> > Iraq violence is not civil war, he adds
> >
> > The Associated Press
> >
> > RIGA, Latvia - President Bush, under pressure to change direction in 
>Iraq,
> > said Tuesday he will not be persuaded by any calls to withdraw American
> > troops before the country is stabilized.
> >
> > "There's one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to pull our troops
> > off
> > the battlefield before the mission is complete," he said in a speech
> > setting
> > the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later
> > this
> > week. "We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our
> > grandchildren."
> >
> > Bush added that the sectarian violence rocking Iraq is part of an 
>al-Qaida
> > plot to goad Iraqi factions into repeated attacks and counterattacks.
> >
> > "There's a lot of sectarian violence taking place, fomented in my 
>opinion
> > because of the attacks by al-Qaida causing people to seek reprisal," he
> > said.
> >
> > Bush, who travels to Jordan later in the week for a summit with Iraqi
> > Prime
> > Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said the latest cycle of violence does not
> > represent a new era in Iraq. The country is reeling from the deadliest
> > week
> > of sectarian fighting since the war began in March 2003.
> >
> > "We've been in this phase for a while," Bush said.
> >
> > The president dated the current spike in violence to the Feb. 22 bombing
> > of
> > a sacred Shiite shrine in Samarra, which triggered reprisal attacks
> > between
> > Shiites and Sunnis and raised fears of civil war.
> >
> > Reviews of how to alter the Iraq strategy are underway within the
> > administration, even as a bipartisan panel, led by former Secretary of
> > State
> > James Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., is completing the
> > recommendations it is expected to present to Bush next month.
> >
> > Bush said he will ask al-Maliki to explain his plan for quelling the
> > violence.
> >
> > "The Maliki government is going to have to deal with that violence and 
>we
> > want to help them do so," the president said. "It's in our interest that
> > we
> > succeed."
> >
> > Directly seeking help from Iran and Syria with Iraq, as part of new,
> > aggressive diplomacy throughout the region, is expected to be among the
> > recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton group.
> >
> > But Bush continued to express his administration's reluctance to talk 
>with
> > two nations it regards as pariah states working to destabilize the 
>Middle
> > East.
> >
> > Iran, the top U.S. rival in the region, has reached out to Iraq and 
>Syria
> > in
> > recent days - an attempt viewed as a bid to assert its role as a
> > powerbroker
> > in Iraq.
> >
> > Bush said Iraq is a sovereign nation, free to meet with its neighbors.
> >
> > "If that's what they think they ought to do, that's fine," he said. "One
> > thing Iraq would like to see is for the Iranians to leave them alone."
> >
> > The president added that the U.S. will only deal with Iran when they
> > suspend
> > their program of enriching uranium, which could be used in a nuclear
> > weapon
> > arsenal.
> >
> > "The Iranians and the Syrians should help - not destabilize - this young
> > democracy," he said.
> >
> > U.S. officials have previously accused Iran of military interference in
> > Iraq.
> >
> > On Iraq, Jordan's King Abdullah, who is hosting al-Maliki's meeting with
> > Bush, has warned that unless bold steps are taken urgently, the new year
> > could dawn with three civil wars in the Middle East - with one in Iraq
> > added
> > to those in Lebanon and between the Palestinians and Israelis.
> >
> > But Bush, dodging a direct answer of whether civil war exists or not, 
>tied
> > the three conflicts together in a different way. He said that recent
> > strife
> > in Lebanon and the heated up Israeli-Palestinian dispute are, like Iraq,
> > the
> > result of extremists trying to choke off democratic progress.
> >
> > "When you see a young democracy beginning to emerge in the Middle East,
> > the
> > extremists try to defeat its emergence," Bush said. "Extremists attack
> > because they can't stand the thought of a democracy. And the same thing 
>is
> > happening in Iraq."
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > ********************************************
> >
> > "In America, anybody can become president.
> > That's one of the risks you take . . ."
> >
> > - Adlai Stevenson
> >
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