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Bush Suggests Terror War Cannot Be Won
 Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:12 pm
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This is the "confident", authoritative" & "decisive" incumbent president that the republicans are rallying behind? No wonder the atmosphere at the RNC is as diminished as it is.
"ON THE EVENING of Sept. 11, 2001, George W. Bush introduced the most important foreign policy organizing principle since the Cold War. "We stand together to win the war against terrorism," he said. Almost immediately, the nation rallied around that three-word phrase and settled on it as the definition of the struggle of an era..."
Was this just another Bushism, or a flip-flop? Perhaps it was yet another miscalculation?
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040830_1685.html
Bush Suggests Terror War Cannot Be Won
In TV Interview, Bush Suggests Terror War Can't Be Won, Igniting Fierce Criticism From Democrats
The Associated Press
NASHUA, N.H. Aug. 30, 2004 — President Bush ignited a Democratic inferno of criticism on Monday by suggesting the war on terrorism could not be won, forcing his aides to scramble to defend his remarks just as he had hoped to bask in convention accolades.
Bush sought to emphasize the economy New Hampshire's appears to be on a rebound but his comments on terrorism dominated national attention.
In an interview on NBC-TV's "Today" show, Bush vowed to stay the course in the war on terror, saying perseverance in the battle would make the world safer for future generations. But he suggested an all-out victory against terrorism might not be possible.
Asked "Can we win?" Bush said, "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."
Democrats, looking for ways to deflect the spotlight from Republicans as they opened their convention in York, pounced.
"After months of listening to the Republicans base their campaign on their singular ability to win the war on terror, the president now says we can't win the war on terrorism," said Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards. "This is no time to declare defeat."
"I decided a year ago that he cannot win the war on terror," said retired Gen. Merrill McPeak, former Air Force chief of staff, at a news conference in New York organized by Democrats.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan sought to clarify the president's remarks, telling reporters, "He was talking about winning it in the conventional sense ... about how this is a different kind of war and we face an unconventional enemy."
"To suggest that the war on terror can't be won is absolutely unacceptable," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"First George W. Bush said he miscalculated the war in Iraq, then he called it a catastrophic success and blamed the military," said Kerry spokeswoman Allison Dobson. "Now he says we can't win the war on terror. Is that what Karl Rove means when he calls for steady leadership?"
Meanwhile Rove, Bush's chief political strategist, acknowledged that the continuing conflict in Iraq could be a political liability in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona.
"We're in a war, so you got a lot of people who say, `I don't like the fact that we're in a war. But I want to win the war,'" Rove said in an interview in New York with Pennsylvania reporters.
The coordinated Democratic attack came as Republicans sought to portray Bush as a strong leader in the war on terrorism in the opening session of the Republican National Convention.
Bush suggested in an interview with Time magazine that he still would have gone into Iraq but with different tactics if he had known "that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day."
He called the swift military offensive that led to the fall of Baghdad in April 2003 "a catastrophic success" in light of the fact that fighting continues to this day despite the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government.
Speaking in Nashua, Bush praised a 3.9 percent unemployment rate that is considerably below the national average of 5.5 percent, below other states in the region and below New Hampshire's July 2003 rate of 4.3 percent. "It's dropping every second," Bush said with a smile as he took credit for the state's gains.
Bush was on a three-day, six-state campaign dash that will bring him to New York late Wednesday. From New Hampshire, he headed to Michigan.
The president rehearsed his Thursday night acceptance speech Monday morning before leaving the White House.
"They're kicking off the convention with positive speeches. It's going to be a positive experience for the people of this country to see what we believe," Bush said.
photo credit and caption: President Bush addresses a crowd at a rally in Wheeling, W.Va., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles P. Saus)
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skizz
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Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:17 pm
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it was funny how fast they were to clearify what he actually meant  |
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increase 1776
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Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:30 pm
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The moron had to go on the Rush Oxycotin Show this morning and read the talking points .He is not capable of putting together a complete sentence,by himself. Condi,or Karl,or some other Satan worshipper had to write it for him.The President of the U.S.goes on a dope fiends radio show to correct his fuc.ups.Only in Nazi America, can Rush still be on the air.I bet he spent more then one night in the Lincoln Bedroom,lot of sucking up to do.
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