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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
W tells the Dems to stop rewriting history
President Bush strongly rebuked congressional critics of his Iraq war policy Friday, accusing them of being “deeply irresponsible” and sending the wrong signal both to America’s enemy and to U.S. troops.
“The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges,” Bush said in his most combative defense yet of his rationale for invading Iraq in March 2003.
Bush’s charges brought a forceful response from senior Democrats in Congress, who accused the president of misleading the country about the justification for war. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who ran unsuccessfully against Bush last year, accused the president of playing “the politics of fear and smear.”
Bush’s speech was part of a coordinated White House effort to bolster the president’s waning credibility and dwindling support for the war, in which more than 2,000 U.S. troops have died.
As casualties have climbed, Bush’s popularity has dropped. His approval rating now is at 37 percent in the latest AP-Ipsos poll, an all-time low point for his presidency.
“When I made the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Congress approved it with strong bipartisan support,” Bush said in a Veterans Day speech at Tobyhanna Army Depot.
“While it’s perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.”
Most excellent. I’ve been wanting him to say this long before now to the Dem liars in Congress regarding their statements on the Iraq war.
Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of blogger reaction here, with a followup here regarding criticism of his comments.
More via my favorite blogger Jeff Goldstein here and here.
Captain Ed smacks down the flip flopping lying Dems in Congress. Ouch!
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GW understands what is at stake in Iraq. He realizes that if democracy works in Iraq, it will work in other places without our military. Lebanon, and Egypt are already wanting to give this thing called democracy a try. Syria needs to leave Lebanon alone tho. They think they can stop democracy in Lebanon. I pray that the people of Lebanon will rise up in greater numbers and tell Syria, You Cannot Stop This!!! – Lorica
We’ve got a lot riding on how things turn out in Iraq, no doubt. I think they will work out for the best. It’s Iran I’m really worried about at this point.
For the Brian’s of the world:
Part of Bush’s speech:
While it is perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war.
These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community’s judgments related to Iraq’s weapons programs. They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein. They know the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession of weapons of mass destruction. Many of these critics supported my opponent during the last election, who explained his position to support the resolution in the Congress this way: ‘When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security.’ That’s why more than 100 Democrats in the House and the Senate, who had access to the same intelligence voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power.
The stakes in the global War on Terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America’s will. As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them. Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough. And our troops deserve to know that whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, our Nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory.
Could you imagine if we pulled out now how Enboldened our enemy would be. Syria, Iran and N Korea would all try something against us. If we leave now it will be deemed that we “tuck tailed and ran”. There would be no better recruitment tool than to show the United States as weak willed and spineless. – Lorica
Osama even remarked about making us cutting and running (lesson he learned after Somalia). The left makes the enemy feel they are this close “” to having us cut and run. The left feels no shame.
This is absolutely the reason some of these folks need to hold their tongues. I seem to remember how a N. Korea Colonel in an interview talked about how John Kerry’s antics encouraged the North Vietminese. – Lorica
You seem to remember correctly Lorica.
I usually do, unless it is my birthday. Was I born in 1963 or 1968?? Maybe one day I will get that straight.