In fact, he said it would be long and difficult and we needed resolve. And he predicted that people would lose focus and patience. He said this shortly after 9/11.
The "Instant Gratification Crowd" can't grasp the reality of war.
Since when is war easy?
I still ask "what war?" Yes there are still people fighting, but for the most part I compare this to the British and the IRA. When I see an opposing military in the field, I will agree that there is still a "war" in the true meaning of the word.
Well, that's B.S. The Iraqis are embracing good old-fashioned capitalism and we're teaching them how to trade on the global economy after the years of their isolation caused by the sanctions.
They are very avid learners on that subject.
When did the white house EVER see a quick end to the war? Long, tough slog is what was always said.
Say WHAT?? Did this guy ever actually listen to a word Bush has ever said? He said from the beginning that it would NOT be easy, NOT be clean, NOT be quick, that we would have to stay the course, go the distance, on and on.... what the hell is the matter with these people's hearing??
Well, if the San Francisco Chronically Wrong says it, it must be true.
They're so knowledgable about fighting wars and national defense there.
Those we fight against in Iraq are not Iraqis, but Iranians, Syrians, Al-Qaeda fighters from foreign nations as well as Al-Qaeda members who are Iraqi.
Iraq just happens to be the current front in our war against Islamic terrorism. That war was never going to be a quick one, and no one in the Bush administration ever said it would.
I never heard President Bush say it was going to be easy, i only remember hearing him say it was going to be difficult.
I wonder what this guy's rationale is for this statement. There are plenty of mistakes in our recent history with much greater consequences.
-Not confronting Hitler during his military buildup, millions killed, large sections of Europe destroyed
-Underestimating the Japanese willingness to go to war, having to fight a two front world war.
-Not supporting the Nationalist Chinese enough after WWII and allowing the Reds to take China with massive assistance from the Soviets.
-Not forseeing the entry of the Red Chinese in the Korean War, heavy casualties, leaving the North under Communist control, 50 years later having a rogue nation playing with Nukes.
-Vietnam. Letting the Tet Offensive shift the momentum in the war despite the Communists taking massive casualties. Allowing restricted bombing in the North.
-Communism. Not seeing it for what it was, an international conspiracy to oppress people. By allowing it to exist we sentenced ourselves to the cost of the cold war, 100,000 dead in two hot wars.
Those are all strategic mistakes we made in the last 60 years.
"Three years -- White House no longer sees quick end to difficult war"
Lying liberal POS fag.
Is EVERY member of the US media afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder? What is it about journalism that attracts such shallow people?
Exactly. I don't ever remember President Bush saying this was going to be over quickly. If anything, he's always said the war on terror and in Iraq would be long-term, and that we would not leave Iraq until the mission was complete. He's been nothing but honest in his statements regarding his Administration's committment, and warned the people of this country that it wouldn't be easy and there would be setbacks along the way. I don't know who these media nuts have been listening to, but it sure isn't President Bush.
That's not a second guess. It's a lie. 43 NEVER said it would be easy or quick.
...the Bush administration was brimming with confidence that this would be a war only in the sense that a lot of bombs would be dropped and the military would seize, temporarily, a foreign capital. It was going to be swift, high-tech, clean
I would be interested to see one unambiguous direct statement to that effect.
Just another MSM myth.
Dubya seems to follow the advice in this poem pretty well:
Rudyard Kipling
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
And the Democrats' solution is what exactly?
EXACTLY!!He told us that"The War Against Terror"would be a protracted situation!!The Iraq war is just one theater of operations in this global conflict!!!We have become to"Instanticized"in this country!!!I freely accuse The DemonRats of TREASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!