Posted on 03/12/2006 3:19:37 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
The Bush administration will not pull American troops out of Iraq until victory is won, despite the growing number of Democrats urging a withdrawal, presidential adviser Karl Rove said Saturday.
Abandoning Iraq now would signal to U.S. allies that America can't be trusted, Rove said.
"Tyrants in the Middle East would laugh at our failed resolve," he said. "To retreat before victory would be a reckless act."
Rove was the featured speaker at a Republican fundraiser at Bowling Green State University hosted by Rep. Paul Gillmor, a Republican from northwest Ohio.
Rove, who is Bush's top political adviser, said he came to Ohio to thank volunteers and local politicians who helped Bush win the state that put him back in the White House two years ago.
"You all had something to do with keeping me employed," Rove said.
Ohio will be crucial again to Republicans in the 2008 presidential election.
No Republican has won the presidency without carrying the state, which gave President Bush the White House in 2004, and only two Democrats have won without it in the past 100 years.
A key issue to this year's midterm elections will be campaigning against Democrats who voted against the Patriot Act, Rove said.
Recent attempts by extremists to start civil war in Iraq by blowing up a sacred mosque have not succeeded because political and religious leaders in the country eased tensions by calling for calm, Rove said.
"Why? Because they know Americans stand with them," Rove said. "As long as America stands with them, Iraqi people will reject al-Qaida's attempt to start civil war."
Only 39 percent of Americans support the way Bush has handled Iraq, according to the latest AP-Ipsos poll. Nearly four out of five Americans, including 70 percent of Republicans, believe civil war will break out in Iraq, the poll showed.
Rove did not mention several contentious issues surrounding the White House, including the political storm that forced the reversal of a deal allowing a Dubai company to take over operations at six U.S. ports.
Rove did defend the administration's anti-terrorism efforts and defended its warrantless eavesdropping program.
"President Bush believes that if al-Qaida is calling someone inside the United States, we should know who they are calling and what they are saying," he said.
American's don't run
Abandoning Iraq now would signal to U.S. allies that America can't be trusted, Rove said.
"Tyrants in the Middle East would laugh at our failed resolve," he said. "To retreat before victory would be a reckless act."
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NEVER FORGET
After we were fooled into abandoning the then Free South Vietnamese long ago to their fate at the hands of heavily Soviet-backed bullies invading from the Communist North, came for all of us to see in the end:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
The same Anti-Freedom, Anti-U.S. "Americans" who fooled us back then are at again in a new time of war in a new century with our own Freedom now directly at stake here at home:
WALTER CRONKITE
DAN RATHER
JOHN KERRY
TED KENNEDY
DIANE "HILLARY" RODHAM
WILLIAM "BILL" CLINTON
JANE FONDA
TOM HAYDEN
JESSE JACKSON, and all.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles in the Fight for Freedom of the Vietnam War
(Vietnam War Pictures)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
NEVER FORGE
Thanks for the ping!
"Nearly four out of five Americans, including 70 percent of Republicans, believe civil war will break out in Iraq, the poll showed."
Media keeps spouting that like its gospel, but people only thought that because the media insisted it was the case, and ... it never happened.
Didnt happen.
Wont happen.
Iraq is one country that will stabilize and become a successful democratic nation.
MSM: Get over it.
ONE...ONE year ago!!
despite the growing number of Democrats urging a withdrawal
How many more have joined the "urge" to withdraw? Are they up to 4...5...6??
NOVEMBER 18, 2005:
Only 39 percent of Americans support the way Bush has handled Iraq
In your dreams. Quit sighting bogus polls as fact.
Associated Press: JOHN SEEWER
SEEWER needs to find another job. He can not seem to report actual facts.
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bttt
"what represents "victory" in this war on terror? "
First, we're determined to prevent the attacks of terrorist networks before they occur.
And we're acting, along with governments from many countries, to destroy the terrorist networks and incapacitate their leaders.
Our commitment is clear: We will not relent until the organized international terror networks are exposed and broken, and until their leaders are held to account for their murder.
Secondly, we're determined to deny weapons of mass destruction to outlaw regimes, and to their terrorist allies who would use them without hesitation.
And we are working urgently to keep weapons of mass murder out of the hands of the fanatics.
Third, we're determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes.
Fourth, we're determined to deny the militants control of any nation, which they would use as a home base and a launching pad for terror.
The terrorist goal is to overthrow a rising democracy, claim a strategic country as a haven for terror, destabilize the Middle East, and strike America and free nations with ever-increasing violence.
That's their goal. Our goal is to defeat the terrorists and their allies at the heart of their power -- so we will defeat the enemy in Iraq.
The fifth element of our strategy in the war on terror is to deny the militants future recruits by replacing hatred and resentment with democracy and hope across the broader Middle East. This is a difficult and long-term project, yet there is no alternative to it.
President Discusses War on Terror: October 28, 2005
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051028-1.html
If you need more - let me know.
Pathetic isn't it? Thanks for the ping.
BTTT
Let John Seewer know about his great reporting and analysis on "growing number of Democrats".
info@ap.org
That is plenty, thanks. All good goals except for #5, which is IMHO unattainable.
That is plenty, thanks. All good goals except for #5, which is IMHO unattainable.
Well hey, this IS America and we are all entitled to our opinion. ;*)
Thanks
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