White House is cutting and running from "stay the course."

pickel · October 25th, 2006, 12:03 AM

Imagine that !!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15392441/

President Bush and his aides are annoyed that people keep misinterpreting his Iraq policy as "stay the course." A complete distortion, they say. "That is not a stay-the-course policy," White House press secretary Tony Snow declared yesterday.

HaHa What a joke. The ULTIMATE flip/flop .

Where would anyone have gotten that idea? Well, maybe from Bush.

"We will stay the course. We will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed," he said in Salt Lake City in August.

"We will win in Iraq so long as we stay the course," he said in Milwaukee in July.

"I saw people wondering whether the United States would have the nerve to stay the course and help them succeed," he said after returning from Baghdad in June.

But the White House is cutting and running from "stay the course." A phrase meant to connote steely resolve instead has become a symbol for being out of touch and rigid in the face of a war that seems to grow worse by the week, Republican strategists say. Democrats have now turned "stay the course" into an attack line in campaign commercials, and the Bush team is busy explaining that "stay the course" does not actually mean stay the course .

This has to be the BIGGEST sack of B.S. the White House has EVER come up with
I can't stop laughing .And they think , with a straight face, anybody is going to beleive this crap. Oh , I forget Chuckiechan will eat this up...Anybody else ????

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indus49 · October 25th, 2006, 12:17 AM

It's sad... I can't imagine what future Americans will think of this time in our history, but my feeling is it will be remembered with shame.

pickel · October 25th, 2006, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by indus49

It's sad... I can't imagine what future Americans will think of this time in our history, but my feeling is it will be remembered with shame.

Welcome to Tech IMO !!!! I can well understand your feelings. The whole political structure has let us down in so many ways but with our young boys dieing and getting maimed in such numbers it's a TOTAL disgrace. All we can do is pray the future will be ALOT different.

Mojo Risin' · October 25th, 2006, 01:01 AM

Okay, I’m in. Stay the course is committed to not cutting and running. Others interpret that to mean “keep on doing what your doing with no adjustments”. Fact is we are winning this war in Iraq hands down, just as we did in Viet Nam. Haven’t lost a battle yet. (Same thing as Viet Nam.) Unfortunately, the agenda driven media has chosen to present the war in such a way that they will even provide news clips that only help to further the terrorist’s cause and negatively sway public support in order to advance their ideals. Guaranteed Bush will not let what the media did to Viet Nam happen here. There’s way too much more here at stake, and if you can’t realize that then maybe you’ve been shacked up in a spider hole like Saddam was.

voogru · October 25th, 2006, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Mojo Risin'

Okay, I’m in. Stay the course is committed to not cutting and running. Others interpret that to mean “keep on doing what your doing with no adjustments”. Fact is we are winning this war in Iraq hands down, just as we did in Viet Nam. Haven’t lost a battle yet. (Same thing as Viet Nam.) Unfortunately, the agenda driven media has chosen to present the war in such a way that they will even provide news clips that only help to further the terrorist’s cause and negatively sway public support in order to advance their ideals. Guaranteed Bush will not let what the media did to Viet Nam happen here. There’s way too much more here at stake, and if you can’t realize that then maybe you’ve been shacked up in a spider hole like Saddam was.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

pickel · October 25th, 2006, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Mojo Risin'

Okay, I’m in. Stay the course is committed to not cutting and running. Others interpret that to mean “keep on doing what your doing with no adjustments”. Fact is we are winning this war in Iraq hands down, just as we did in Viet Nam. Haven’t lost a battle yet. (Same thing as Viet Nam.) Unfortunately, the agenda driven media has chosen to present the war in such a way that they will even provide news clips that only help to further the terrorist’s cause and negatively sway public support in order to advance their ideals. Guaranteed Bush will not let what the media did to Viet Nam happen here. There’s way too much more here at stake, and if you can’t realize that then maybe you’ve been shacked up in a spider hole like Saddam was.

It was North Viet Nam that "won" the war , not the media , as we are getting our asses kicked in Iraq. When did you get back from Baghdad to report the latest news ????? I got the straight dope at the VA hospital last week from the horses mouth. I'm sick of paying to rip off Big Business for over priced commodities of war. Same as Nam...the oil and munitions companies making a killing. Cheney's Haliburtion sucking us dry for all they can get. And ignorant citizendry( anyone posting in this thread ??????) being lied to time after time. There's alot at stake, however Bush is the last person who should be running the show. He's proved his ineptness and should let the military boys take over while maybe there's time to salvage this mess.

RADAR1797 · October 25th, 2006, 02:47 AM

pickel,

I do not know who the hell you have been talking to, but my buddies over there now are not under the impression they are getting their asses kicked.

pickel · October 25th, 2006, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by RADAR1797

pickel,

I do not know who the hell you have been talking to, but my buddies over there now are not under the impression they are getting their asses kicked.

I reckon when your body has just been re-arranged your reality is slightly different from the norm.

read these

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ24Ak02.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...6074182.stm?ls

http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?...rder=0&thold=0

Epidemic · October 25th, 2006, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by pickel

It was North Viet Nam that "won" the war , not the media , .

The north won when we left... Why did we leave vietnam?

Was it because it was impossible for us to win as we had our butts handed to us in battle after battle?

Was it a lack of will power and desire to continue to spend treasure and political capita?

Was it an inability to meet the demands of war?

AFAIAC (for better or for worse) the people were convinced it was a no win situation that had no personal benefit to them in their daily lives or futures.

MTAtech · October 25th, 2006, 06:06 PM

Regarding Iraq, it isn't use versus them. The major fighting and violence in Iraq is religious factions fighting each other in a civil war with the purpose of jockeying for power in the new country. The U.S. is basically backing the Shiite controlled government.