Posted on 05/25/2006 10:42:29 PM PDT by freepatriot32
BESET by low ratings and an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, US President George W. Bush concluded today that perhaps all his trash talk in the war on terror was not such a good idea.
At a news conference with his British ally Tony Blair, Mr Bush expressed regret for calling for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to be brought in "dead or alive" and taunting Iraqi insurgents by saying "bring 'em on". The blunt-speaking Texan said it was "kind of tough talk that sent the wrong signal to people. I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe a little in a more sophisticated manner."
"I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted and so I learned from that," Mr Bush said during an extraordinarily humble 50-minute session with reporters at the White House.
The US president's popularity rating here has sunk to 31 per cent largely because of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war three years after the invasion to oust dictator Saddam Hussein.
There are some real dirt-eaters on some of the GOP-related threads. We need to call these people out, whether they're trolls or not. They are bad for morale.
This is just too depressing, really.
you guys just don't get it
you are not living in a bubble, the border is a very serious issue.
if the GOP wants to be the big winner they will need to address the border issue.
remember perot?
i come from a heavy military family and the military community is pi$$ed.
those who are do not know their history are doomed to repeat it!
this is not about the party.
getting late need spell check
lol
Sure.
I'm afraid "us guys" are on to "you guys."
whatever, i want the GOP to win but they won't w/ their heads in the sand
---This isn't an immigration thread.---
They're all immigration threads now. That issue is going off like an air raid siren. You can't avoid it. If Bush came out and said Americans first, build a fence, secure the border, and we'll have town hall meetings and a national discussion about what to do with the 12 million illegals already here, his numbers would go up, war be damned.
well i hope "you guys" sleep well w/ "us guys" on that wall
bunch of lemmings
i will try to make a difference in the primaries
after that i will hold my nose and vote rino
enough said
The short answer is if you are going to fight make sure you have the machine gun and the other guy has the rocks.
We have the B52s. We should have leveled Fallujah.
We should level Syria and Iran. We should do the Dresden thing.
When you march to War, prepare to make the other guy die!
"We should level Syria and Iran. We should do the Dresden thing."
yes! Patton! Victory!
not this whimp metroman crap
Oh, non-wimpy and self-appointed expert meriting high accolades, could you edumacate us on the history of this darned place?
Bush may be a lot of things, but he NEVER pretends to be anything. Perhaps it's a bit of projection on your part? However, since he's such a "wimp" I guess you can do better? YOU fight a war on 2 fronts, the constant lies and badgering by the press, a congress that would rather hold hands with Dems than with their president, Dems who try every tactic in the world to bring him down, an intelligence service that has/had to be cleaned to be effective but in the meantime is leaking dangerous secrets like a seive, and his pathetic, whiny "base" who expect him to be able to solve everything in the blink of an eye just because they think their issue is the most important one in the world. So since YOU seem to have all the answers, go for it.
France?
you know esss...car...go...
"and his pathetic, whiny "base"
i think i just saw flashes of red!
your right , poll numbers show that democrats have always have a negative view of the president, and his approval rating with them hasn’t changed, the movement in the ratings have come from a loss of supporters from the Republican Party.
Of all people the president should know that conservatives want to be tough with security law and order, they wanted him to call evil for what it is evil, whether it was abroad or at home.
He seems to be backpedaling now by saying he needs to be more sensitive about terrorism, and coupled with his ideas about touchy feely compassion for Latin Americans whom prop up evil governments yet he wants us to assimilate their people and views here but that just leads to a lack of concern for the security US citizens at home.
It appears that he is now not very serious about national security , which is too bad because that topic is the winner for the American people, lets just hope this faction wont end up steering the party and that these views will just be the lame duck views of the liberal center, and a historic president who said some tough talk and acted on it at one time ...
but i am not upset about the war
what about "us guys"?
Oui, c'est comme ca. Tu es tellement foux, connard.
sorry bud I SPEAK ENGLISH.
translate please
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