What Permanent Iraq Presence?
NEWS: What the Beltway crowd said way back when about how long we'd be in Baghdad.
August 22, 2008
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"It is never our intention to go and stay in a place and to impose our will by the presence of our military forces." —Secretary of State Colin Powell, October 2002
"We will stay as long as necessary to make sure that the Iraqi people have a government of, by, and for the Iraqi people. And then we'll come home." —George W. Bush, May 2003
"We have no desire to stay any longer than necessary." —American envoy Paul Bremer, July 2003
"I assured [Iraqis] that America wasn't leaving. When they hear me say we're staying, that means we're staying." —George W. Bush, November 2003
"I can't say whether it is going to be 2006, 2007...It is not going to be months for sure." —British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, January 2004
"As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation—and neither does America." —George W. Bush, April 2004
"We have no intention, at the present time, of putting permanent bases in Iraq." —Then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, February 2005
"We have no goal of establishing permanent bases." —Zalmay Khalilzad, then US ambassador to Iraq, March 2006
"US troops could be in Iraq for a thousand years or a million years...It's not American presence; it's American casualties." —John McCain, explaining his "100 years" remark to Mother Jones, January 2008
"[America's Korean and German bases] have been there for 50 years; they are US facilities in the sense that they are US-only in many instances. That's not what we have in mind…We have no desire for permanent bases in Iraq." —Defense Secretary Robert Gates, June 2008
I'm not sure what this posting is supposed to be. A statement that those in our government will lie soullessly depending on what they expect should be said? That the US has a long history of imperialism? A collection of statements trying to prove the fanatical, fundamentalist Muslim belief that our government is the "Great Satan"? It works but there is no author shown and no statement or explanation why it's here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8
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http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/NEWUSEMBASSYINIRAQ.HTML
Bring'em home NOW!
You'd think, with Bush's approval ratings clear up in the teens, that some Bush apologists would have followed the rich scent of the headline above, to come and "enlighten" us with their soundbite ignorance.
But no -- and when I go looking on other articles, I don't see them there either.
Maybe they think they can just jump into the game when they want to, and jump back out, when it gets too hot.
But I say no.
I want them here, now. I want them to keep complaining about how we're dissing their Boy God, until even they can hear how stupid they sound.
I want them to keep it up until they see what their incompetent oaf-genius has done to our country. No slinking off for a guilty latte, while the rest of us -- those of us who kept using our brains, while the programmed fascist minions assisted the effort to sell America off for corporate profit -- fix up the mess they've left us with.
C'mon, trolls; your work here isn't finished.