[jimmydean]

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WASHINGTON – President Bush said Friday that the fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected, but he defended the U.S.-led invasion, saying the world could not risk leaving Saddam Hussein's power unchecked.

So it wasn't supposed to go this smooth? Who knew.

 

[Samirol]

did he announce that we are attacking Syria yet?

 

[rockwool]

"We have made our bottom line clear," Bush said. "For the safety of our people and the peace of the world, America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon."

Peace of the world? All I see are wars, occupations and endless suffering almost everywhere.

Earlier this week, Iraq's three-member presidential council signed off on a new U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, which requires the nearly 150,000 U.S. troops to leave Iraq by January 1, 2012. It also requires American soldiers to withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June 2009. On Thursday and Friday, Bush called several Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to thank them for their work in getting the agreement approved.

Arranging those "democratic" elections where only approved parties were allowed to participate was a stroke of genious from the US's side. That way they avoided having this parliament/government being called for a Vichy government.

 

[sanjuro]

WASHINGTON – President Bush said Friday that the fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected, but he defended the U.S.-led invasion, saying the world could not risk leaving Saddam Hussein's power unchecked.

Saddam was poised to invade Kuwait again.

 

[jimmydean]

Saddam was poised to invade Kuwait again.

Lesson learned: Don't act like a bad ass when you are sitting on oil.

 

[Defenestrated]

Saddam Hussein was poised to destroy the world, and America saved the day.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

 

[rockwool]

I bet George Orwell was doing drugs; mushrooms, cannabis, opium, he's way to clearheaded to be sober.