Bush declares progress in Iraq war »
Posted By monicachenoa 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsStanding on the Colonnade outside the Oval Office of the White House , Bush also announced that effective Thursday, the duration of troop tours in Iraq will be cut from 15 months to 12 months.
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STONERS1 year, 3 months ago
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"He said that violence is at its lowest ebb since the spring of 2004, that forces are in their third consecutive month with lower violence levels holding steady, and that Iraqi forces are becoming increasingly capable of both fighting and securing the country."
"The progress is still reversible," Bush acknowledged. But he added, "There now appears to be a degree of durability in gains."
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djn3nunez31 year, 3 months ago
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I heard his little speach this morning. He still tries to link his illegal and may I say blunderous invasion of Iraq with al Queda, even though al Queda was an enemy of Saddams Iraq and was not operational in Iraq. (Well except for the small activity in US Backed Kurdish controlled areas that is).
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voiant11 months, 1 week ago
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You dont know the full truth. Weapons of mass distruction have been removed by the Army, major stock pile of nuk substance has been removed and sent to Canada. Enough to make many nuk bombs. We had progress for 6 years, it wasn't until the democrats took over that we have slid where we are today.
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Teech1 year, 1 month ago
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Damn right Bush sees progress! 10 billion per week in his pocket, Cheney's pocket, Halliburton's pocket, and the pockets of all his war lovin' cronies.
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Great progress in the further fleecing of the American taxpayer. The cash just keeps rolling in!
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sbestpa11 months, 1 week ago
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The truth is that the limited forces can't continue to maintain their current numbers with 15 month tours. It's simple math...the tours had to be cut. It shouldn't be played as any sort of progress. We should never have come here in 2003, especially based on the lies and misinformation to cover a hidden agenda that had been planned from early 2001. Unfortunately, we did and blasted the country's infrastructure and now have to pay and clean up our mess here. In addition, the whole shebang could fall apart until the central government is strong enough to hold things together and that is also our mess to try and take care of. Violence still occurs daily outside of the Green Zone. In the past few days, rockets have been fired into the zone and people have been killed. It is not unheard in the Green Zone for Iraq security to point weapons at each other. Religious and ethnic violence and tensions still exist, as evidenced by the violence against ethnic christians in Mosul. Over 4000 americans (speaking only of soldiers) have been killed here, and over 30,000 more wounded. We will very soon pass the trillion (1000 billion) dollar mark here in financial costs (waste) that should have been serving our own economy/education/health care/ infrastructure projects/ etc. Much of this money has directly benefited friends of the current US president and vice president. At home these same peole are giving money to corporations while the citizens (the human people) they were elected to serve lose their homes and jobs. Bush has given the American people the worse hose job they will have ever had. In the end, we'll be dealing with this for decades while Bush, his friends and the corporate cronies all look down from their mansions without a financial care in the world. A good writer could build a story (?fiction) about how Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush collaborated to bring down what once was the greatest free country on Earth. Think on it.
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