Reuters: "George Bush Says He Doesn't Regret War's Cost in Lives"
Reuters made this dishonest statement yesterday in their grim milestone report that 4,000 soldiers had lost their lives in the Iraq War:
"US President George Bush says he doesn't regret the war or its cost in lives."Here is the video. Reuters makes the claim at the end of the report:
Here is what the president actually said about the mission in Iraq yesterday via The New York Times:
President Bush, although “grieved” by the new numbers, would continue to push forward and “focus on succeeding.”Sorry Reuters, even the evil Chimpy Bushitlerburton is not that rotten.
Mr. Bush responded only indirectly to the passing of the milestone. He made reference to “this day of reflection” during a brief statement at the State Department on Monday afternoon, in which he noted the deaths of foreign service officers, as well as soldiers.
“I hope their families know that the citizens pray for their comfort and strength,” he said, “whether they were the first one who lost their life in Iraq or recently lost their lives in Iraq — that every life is precious in our sight.”
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/25/2008 05:29:00 AM
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But there's no bias in the MSM.....
Of course, the loon toon leftist wackjobs were knee jerking all over Cheney too.
*Note the pics they all use for the VP....if only they could draw horns on his head & lazer beams from his eyes....
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GP & Locomotive Breath @ 6:47 AM..
BDS sufferer's are profoundly clueless..
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
God Bless Bush/Maliki!!
God Bless US/Iraq!!
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I'm surprised you're disagreeing with this. Given all benefit of the doubt to the President, it's clear that he doesn't regret the war or the loss of life. He may well wish it hadn't been necessary, but that's a separate point; if he regretted it that would presumably mean it wasn't worth it in his opinion, and I'm pretty sure that's not what he thinks.
As a comparison I don't regret the loss of life in WWII, because it all turned out to be worth it. The hesitation that you couldn't see when I typed the words 'worth it' is just a small indicator of how terrible a thing it was, and how immeasurably I wish it hadn't been necessary, but given that it was, then I don't regret it. I don't think by saying this that I'm claiming the mantle of Bushitlerburton.
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OT, but worth the read..
Operation Cavalry Charge
excerpts:
[But is this how this story is being reported
by the US and Arab media? Of course not!
The dominant false narrative du jour goes something like this: the Sadrists are angry over a number of things (arrests, political wrangling with the Hakim family and the Da’awa Party, etc.) so they decided to back away from Sadr’s seven-month ‘ceasefire’ (a term invented by the western media as a deliberately wrongful translation of تجميد وإعادة هيكلة جيش المهدي: “freezing and restructuring the Mahdi Army”) by staging ‘civil disobedience’ (…such as shutting down primary schools and shops by threatening teachers, students and the middle class) but things quickly deteriorated into the perpetual cycles violence that these journalists and pundits are mentally wedded to and have staked their thin expertise on predicting as Iraq’s inevitable fate.]
[Why now? Maliki has sent 50,000 Iraqi soldiers to deal with about a dozen criminal cartels. Militarily, this will be an easy fight. Those counseling caution and delay stressed that smashing Sadrist-related criminal cartels would spark a large-scale Sadrist reaction across Iraq at a time when the Bush administration wants to keep Iraq quiet especially with the ‘4000’ milestone that was being approached and got passed a couple of days ago. Another argument against action counseled that the Iranians are angling for a fire-fight to sully any talk of progress that Gen. Petraeus may give in a couple of weeks when he appears before Congress, and that the Democrats and their allies in the US media would take these images out of Basra and elsewhere and package the news as a “security meltdown” (…which they would and have done so, irrespective of reality).
Maliki decided that he doesn’t give a damn about US presidential elections and that the only timeline that concern him are Iraq’s own upcoming elections. Maliki also concluded, from intensive intelligence reporting, that the Sadrists are weak and that Iran doesn’t really have much punch to its supposed influence in Iraq. That’s why he decided to go for it.]
[Oh heavens, but this is so pathetic: the US media is falling all over itself in trying to describe today’s clashes in the worst possible light, which is just the usual thing they do whenever they can, but it has been harder to squeeze in the Iraq story in recent months because the American public has tuned out.
So, this is what the news consumer gets: something’s going on with the Sadrists, and everyone is keeping their fingers crossed that this is it; this is the moment when Iraq re-descends into chaos and it can again be called a “quagmire”, and terms like “Iraq is lost” and “no one can stop this civil war” are brought back into vogue. I can see a certain Brisbane native snorting ‘happy power’ up his crooked nose in early celebration.
I hope that keeping those fingers
crossed will give them arthritis.]
yes, he's a trip, but he's also there..
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oh what the heck, another excerpt re: bg @ 9:24 PM..
[Muqtada al-Sadr knows fully well that should a third all-out confrontation erupt between forces associated with him on the one hand and U.S. and Iraqi government troops on the other, then it can only end with his death, arrest or the much more unlikely prospect of escape to Iran from which he won’t return to Iraq for a very, very long time—Muqtada really doesn’t like being in Tehran from what I’ve heard.
One well-placed source claims that al-Sadr is lashing out at his inner circle and crying out “You’re going to get me killed! You’re going to get me killed!” I cannot gauge the veracity of this account, but this source had in the past accurately corroborated accounts from al-Sadr’s inner sanctum given to me by a fully trustworthy source (now deceased).]
buh-bye Sadr..
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