President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.

The Weekly Standard ^ | Sept. 13, 2006 | Fred Barnes

[PDR]

WE NOW KNOW WHY the Bush administration hasn't made the capture of Osama bin Laden a paramount goal of the war on terror. Emphasis on bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism. Here's how President Bush explained this Tuesday: "This thing about . . . let's put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work."

Rather, Bush says there's a better way to stay on offense against terrorists. "The way you win the war on terror," Bush said, "is to find people [who are terrorists] and get them to give you information about what their buddies are fixing to do." In a speech last week, the president explained how this had worked--starting with the arrest and interrogation of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheik Muhammad--to break up a terrorist operation that was planning post-9/11 attacks on America.

"It's really important at this stage . . . to be thinking about how to institutionalize courses of action that will enable future presidents to gain the information necessary to prevent attack," he said. This, presumably, would include the use of secret prisons, tough but legal interrogation techniques, a ban on lawsuits against interrogators, electronic eavesdropping, and monitoring of bank transfers, among other measures.

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[msnimje]

"Fixing to do"

It warms my heart.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"...about what their buddies are fixing to do."

Gotta luv the prez when he talks like a regular guy.

[DTogo]

The strategy of leaving OBL alive for on-going intelligence gathering purposes: smart.

[Lucky9teen]

Good points he made. I wish he could say them so the public could hear.

"I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."

"Well, imagine what would have been said if I didn't talk about Iraq. It would have been called a "failed policy, therefore we can't talk about it. But because I did talk about it, the complaint is 'it's politics', it's just the nature of the deal."

"Actually, our generals are saying we need more troops and we want them to be Iraqis

He said he backs Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "100 percent" and supports Rumsfeld's "modernization" of the Army that has upset so many generals. Bush said Rumsfeld, not a band of generals, is firmly running the Pentagon and that's how it should be.

"You know what the definition of sacrifice is for a lot of people" who question him about the lack of sacrifice? "How come you didn't raise taxes? That's what that means as far as I'm concerned . . . If we had raised taxes to create a sense of sacrifice, it would have caused even greater sacrifice because I believe raising taxes in a recession would cause the economy to get even worse."

"I believe these elections will come down to two things: one, firm belief that in order to win the war on terror there must be a comprehensive strategy that recognizes this war is being fought on more than one front, and, two, the economy." "The price of gasoline, which has been falling rapidly, is one of the "interesting indicators" that the press should watch carefully. Just giving you a heads up".

[kromike]

That's why the dhimmocrats' insistence on capturing OBL is such a red-herring:

1) They're not really serious,
2) This isn't "The Lost Boys", where you kill the Head Vampire and the rest all fall over dead, and
3) You kill his followers and subordinate commanders and it deflates his my-penis-is-bigger-than-yours rhetoric.

[deport]

Gotta luv the prez when he talks like a regular guy.

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"...about what their buddies are fixing to do."

My neck of the woods would have used an 'a' before fixing

"...about what their buddies are [a] fixing to do."

[pissant]

I love that too.

[wvobiwan]

"...about what their buddies are fixing to do."

My neck of the woods would have used an 'a' before fixing

"...about what their buddies are [a] fixing to do."

In the hood we say, "...about what dey homies be playin' at."

[roses of sharon]

My old Texas roots!

I hope our CIA are recruiting like mad!

[msnimje]

My neck of the woods would have used an 'a' before fixing
"...about what their buddies are [a] fixing to do."

I saw a movie once (cannot remember the name) which had Fess Parker teaching some French kids English.

He said, "We are going to conjugate some verbs, repeat after me:

"I'm a fixin' to,
he's a fixin' to,
she's a fixin' to."

[ops33]

Old saying in the military, if its stupid and it works it ain't stupid.

[arthurus]

If, that is, OBL is still alive.

[arthurus]

Around here it's "finta" or "finna" to one section of the community, as in "Wha ya finna do?"

[DugwayDuke]

"That's why the dhimmocrats' insistence on capturing OBL is such a red-herring:"

If OBL is captured then the dems can claim the war on terror is over and we can bring the troops home. (As if OBL is the only terrorist in the world)

[kylaka]

Do you mean like Bill Clinton's legacy is a fixed to his penis? Or perhaps Bill Clinton's a fixin to not have sex with that woman? I think I get the hang of it now.

[flynmudd]

fixin'

[flynmudd]

Would that hang to the right or the left?

[RJL]

Rather, Bush says there's a better way to stay on offense against terrorists. "The way you win the war on terror," Bush said, "is to find people [who are terrorists] and get them to give you information about what their buddies are fixing to do."

And eventually that strategry will lead to Osama.

[kylaka]

Dunno. You'll have to ask the ex-president formerly known as "the bent one". If it hung to the right, the SOB probably had it surgically "corrected", to avoid embarrassment.