Bush to mull Iraq strategy over holidays

Bush to mull Iraq strategy over holidays
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While spending the upcoming holiday week at Camp David and his Texas ranch, President Bush will hold high-level meetings on Iraq as he gets ready to unveil a fresh strategy in the new year, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said on Friday.

Bush, who is mulling a short-term boost in U.S. troop levels in Iraq among other ideas, will receive a briefing from new Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday who will have just returned from a two-day trip to Iraq this week.

As they usually do, Bush and his wife, Laura, will spend Christmas at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, then travel to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas the day after Christmas.

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As the death toll in Iraq crept toward the 3,000 mark, Bush visited wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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But as his helicopter landed in a field near the medical center, a house across the street displayed signs saying, "Bush lied, Innocents died" and "Peace on Earth."

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President Bush, right, and first lady Laura Bush, walk away after the president addressed the media following their visit with troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 22, 2006 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hey, GW, y'all let us know when you've gotten in figured out, OK?

:crazy:

I'll bet he doesn't think about Iraq for 10 minutes between now and whatever date in January he decides to show up again in the Oval Office.

"I have to take another month-long vacation and host 24 holiday parties and mull it over. I just don't know. I've asked generals and other important people, but Unka Dick is the only one telling me what gawd wants me to hear. I don't know what to do. Have you tried the Mexican dip?"

He's utterly clueless.

And the MSM won't call him on it.

And certainly not the people of this nation.

:banghead:

Why haven't millions of us stormed D.C. and dragged these despicable criminals out by their heels? :grr:

in another country this kind of dictator would have been long gone.

Bushler to eat, sleep, get drunk, and fuck his dog Barney under the x-mas tree while singing "Yankee Doodle."

:puke:

plan to get him out of the mess in Iraq. If this does not happen he will toss a coin.

Do you think the Decider will make better decisions when he's drunk, or has he been secretly drunk all along?

The troops' anxious families come first. The innocent Iraqis whose lives have been turned upside down come first. Just say it: "I've made a mistake against humanity & I hereby order all troops home. I surrender now to the custody of the U.S. Marshalls."

How dare you put everyone's lives, especially those in harm's way, on hold until after the holidays.

Or, is it "success"? "Progress"? "Winning"?

Not to mention the dead Iraqis who aren't worth his "mulling".

If there were any justice, he'd have plenty of time to "mull" while wearing an orange jump suit.

for crimes to not look like crimes, for lies to not look like lies....

Never mind a little truth could save lives....the truth is ugly and must be avoided no matter how many more people have to die...because the truth demands accountability. It demands justice.

America invaded a country for lies, deception and greed...
America tortures...
America illegally detains people - indefinitely and without charge..
America maintains secret prisons...
America kidnaps people and flies them to places where they will be tortured..that's what "extraordinary rendition" is

America will play the "we're trying" game with all these reports and suggestions and fact finding missions....America will let more people die just to maintain the illusion that America has done nothing criminal.

the US government will blame

the Iraqis - by claiming they won't "stand up"
the American people - for not supporting the war enough
the troops - for failing at the mission (never mind they have been used and abused by a criminal government that started a "war" for lies)

The government will blame anyone and everyone BUT the guilty....because to go after the guilty means others will have to answer for not stopping Bush before now....and that means many in Congress will have to answer for their inaction and their complicity and their enabling of Bush.

I bet I know which report is more accurate.