The Idiot Speaks

Bush is trying to meet a grieving mother's request for a face to face conversation by talking at reporters in Crawford.  He claims he understands her grief and then says we're going to keep on doing the same thing over and over again until the result is different.

Bush: Leaving Iraq Would Be a Bad Signal

"`I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place,' Bush said.

"`I also have heard the voices of those saying: 'Pull out now!' ` he said. `And I've thought about their cry and their sincere desire to reduce the loss of life by pulling our troops out. I just strongly disagree.'

"Immediate withdrawal `would send a terrible signal to the enemy,' the president said.

"`I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan,' Bush said. `She feels strongly about her position, and she has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America. She has a right to her position, and I thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is: Get out of Iraq now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so.'"

Talk about pussyfooting. "...the anguish that some feel some feel about the death that takes place." Is he trying to avoid offending those who don't give a crap about the death that "takes place" like rain or gravity? Good old boy Bush certainly has nothing to do with the facts that those soldiers are there, and blood-thirsty terrorists now control tons and tons of powerful explosives.

Of course he's right that immediate withdrawal would send a terrible signal to the people Bush really perceives as his enemy--the Americans who oppose his policies. It would signal that he led U.S. into a war we couldn't win.

Bush totally ignored the other parts of Mrs. Sheehan's position, the part where she's angry because he told lies to get us into Iraq, and the part where the administration has made mistake after stupid mistake while occupying Iraq. I bet she still wants to talk to him about those parts.