"Victory means exit strategy" - GWB, April 9, 1999

Blue Texan 2007-05-02 10:58

Andrew Sullivan's Quote of the Day sums up the memorylessness of our lame-duck President.

From GWB's veto speech:

Instead, members of the House and the Senate passed a bill that substitutes the opinions of politicians for the judgment of our military commanders. So a few minutes ago, I vetoed this bill.

Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff decide to invade Iraq all by themselves? Or is this about substituting the opinion of one politician with the opinion of the elected Congress of the United States? This is a case where the people who pay the bills should make the decission. And there ought to be a rule against politicians using the term 'politician' as a way to denigrate their opposition. Did the

And would GWB stop calling the insurgents 'terrorists', please. We're the ones with an army occupying their country. 'Terrorist' doesn't apply.

Let's stop calling this part of the 'War on Terror', which it isn't and start calling it an Occupation.