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Bush Escalates Bitter Iraq War Debate
AP ^ | November 14, 2005 | TERENCE HUNT

Posted on 11/14/2005 6:19:09 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

President Bush escalated the bitter debate over the Iraq war on Monday, hurling back at Democratic critics the worries they once expressed that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the world.

"They spoke the truth then and they're speaking politics now," Bush charged.

Bush went on the attack after Democrats accused the president of manipulating and withholding some pre-war intelligence and misleading Americans about the rationale for war.

"Some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past," Bush said. "They're playing politics with this issue and they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. That is irresponsible."

The president spoke to cheering troops at this military base at a refueling stop for Air Force One on the first leg of an eight-day journey to Japan, South Korea, China and Mongolia.

During the stopover, he also met privately with families of four slain service members.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agitprop; antivictory; asiavisit; bush; bushhassers; democrats; iraq; iraqwar; mediabias; propaganda; terrorism; unamerican
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To: Parley Baer

And now that Bush has escalated, the debate is bitter.


21 posted on 11/14/2005 6:32:26 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: West Coast Conservative

The rhetoric cannot possibly be escalated to a higher level after Liberals claimed GWB misled and lied us into war.


22 posted on 11/14/2005 6:32:59 PM PST by Rosemont
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To: Parley Baer

You stole my words!

Pres B is silent and he is "hiding"

Pres B speaks out and he is "escalating"

This makes my stomach sour, how low will they go?


23 posted on 11/14/2005 6:35:21 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Rosemont

Hofstra (?) House intel has made a wonder strong statement on reps who say they did not have the same intel. He says they have access to everything (people, agencies) and did not do their due diligence if they say that. They let down their constituents.


24 posted on 11/14/2005 6:37:58 PM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
I normally avoid "me too" posts but this one calls for it. The use of the word "escalates" by the headline writer is simply over the line.

The left, and here AP is clearly showing a bias in that direction, has for years attempted to establish a political continuum in which "dialogue" involves them making accusations and their opponents restricted first to defending against them and then to admitting their truth. This is the sort of dialogue popular among Soviet re-education camps, which is pretty much what the modern media have attempted to mimic and came very close to establishing. They decide, they report, you agree.

AP, Reuters, the NY Times, the Christian Science Monitor, AFP, the BBC...the list is a long and depressing one. Those on it are perfectly aware of what they're about and have been so unopposed for so long that they've grown arrogant and clumsy and shrink in horror from the first Rush or Fox who comes along.

Every single story I've read in any of the aforementioned on the topic of Bush's speech treats the matter as if he were doing something seedy and unfair by quoting the words of his critics back at them. I think Mencken was wrong - at some point you do go broke underestimating the intelligence of the public.

25 posted on 11/14/2005 6:38:46 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: West Coast Conservative

Amazing. The libs are in true form. Anytime anyone calls them what they are, anti-American, anti-military treasonist anal orifices, they cry foul.

It is about time Bush stood up and defended this country's polition against the communists that are trying to tear it down. WAAAAYYY overdue. Too little, too late really.


26 posted on 11/14/2005 6:39:23 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: West Coast Conservative

AP and it's demo operatives provide more aid and comfort to international terrorists.


27 posted on 11/14/2005 6:39:49 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: West Coast Conservative

This must be working, because all of the sudden the democrats are trotting out Lieberman to bemoan the "excessive partisanship" of the debate and to call for bipartisan cooperation on the war.

And the democrats in the senate have proposed a "sense of the Senate" resolution to make it look like they are in front of what is already happening without them, the success in Iraq with the likely drawdown of troops next year.


28 posted on 11/14/2005 6:44:49 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

And Republicans are still in hiding.

Its sinful that President Bush should have to defend himself. That his own party doesnt have the balls to do it for him. Where is Dr. Frist still looking at the stem cell crystal ball?


29 posted on 11/14/2005 6:49:52 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: West Coast Conservative

It's about time he escalated this war of words, and fought back against these treasonous pigs.


30 posted on 11/14/2005 6:50:48 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: West Coast Conservative

I don't think the AP is even trying anymore


31 posted on 11/14/2005 6:51:47 PM PST by Vision ("When you trust in yourself, you're trusting in the same wisdom that created you")
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To: West Coast Conservative

Bush defends himself from LIARS..........is more like it. Escalates -- no way.


32 posted on 11/14/2005 6:52:04 PM PST by tioga
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To: West Coast Conservative
BUSH escalates??? WTF!

This is, like, my 5th dose of associated Puke today. I don't know how much more I can stand without hurling...

P
33 posted on 11/14/2005 6:53:36 PM PST by papasmurf (Support Delay, support Libby, donate today.)
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To: LibertarianInExile

"Rats realize all hell just broke loose ..."


I think that about sums it up .. how dare that cowboy expose us for the liars we are.


34 posted on 11/14/2005 6:54:07 PM PST by CyberAnt ( I believe Congressman Curt Weldon re Able Danger)
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To: sgtbono2002

You got my vote on that!


35 posted on 11/14/2005 6:54:14 PM PST by papasmurf (Support Delay, support Libby, donate today.)
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To: Brilliant

We ALWAYS let the Dems get away with rewriting history.

It is TIME we stop letting them get away with it.

There is no need to get down and dirty (which is really what held us back to now; Republicans distaste for non-factual distortion of the facts.) We just need to keep hammering back with the real facts.


36 posted on 11/14/2005 6:56:13 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Interesting. I wondered where Lieberman went.

If he is being allowed out in public, there must be signs that this is not working for the dems.
37 posted on 11/14/2005 6:57:53 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: West Coast Conservative

LOL, now that Bush is finally fighting back, it's a "bitter debate".
Terence Hunt and the AP are such scumbags.


38 posted on 11/14/2005 6:57:58 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: mystery-ak
I hate the rats and the MSM...

See tagline

39 posted on 11/14/2005 6:58:55 PM PST by rllngrk33 (The RATs and Media are the enemy.)
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To: paul51

Absolutely. The damned press is as much an enemy of the US as Al-Qaeda. I hate them.


40 posted on 11/14/2005 6:59:06 PM PST by speedy
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