Violence in Iraq Is Soaring. Watch 60 Minutes Sunday Night
All this time I thought President Bush was vacationing in Texas and it turns out he's been in Fantasy Land! Violence in Iraq is much greater than he's been telling us and it's only going to get worse, according to author and journalist Bob Woodward in comments made on 60 Minutes. The Woodward interview will air Sunday, Oct. 1 and you should definitely be in front of your television watching 60 Minutes on CBS (7:00 p.m., Eastern).
"The truth," says Woodward, "is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse. And, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better.' " In fact, Woodward, known for his access to high-level officials, says Bush told leading Republicans, "I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney (the first dog) are the only ones supporting me." Of course not. Bush started plotting to invade Iraq before he even took office, according to Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, former National Security Council experts in their book The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. Bush and his cronies are so obsessed with Iraq they're willing to keep our troops fighting and bleeding over there until a new administration makes the hard decisions to bring them home. At the rate of 1 attack every 15 minutes, that's 80,928 attacks until Bush turns over the reigns! And each attack has the potential to kill more than 1 American or allied man or woman, not to mention the thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children who will die.
How can this man live with himself when he orders that troop tours be extended, as he just did again this month? Does Bush have delusions of grandeur or is he just delusional? He must think the history books are going to portray him as some great white leader bringing freedom to the poor, tortured masses of the Middle East. I think history will show him for the arrogant bully he is, so cocksure that he's right despite the facts that he thinks he can trample the world, bringing his own brand of democracy to people who have a right to make their own choices. Tragically, America will have to live with the repercussions of those choices for generations before we can win back the world's respect and trust. Might does NOT make right, unless you're George W. Bush.
Troops in Iraq are being attacked about every 15 minutes, the highly respected Washington Post reporter says. "It's getting to the point now where there are (800 or) 900 attacks a week," Woodward is quoted as saying in an Associated Press story by Hillel Italie. "That's more than a hundred a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces."
"The truth," says Woodward, "is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse. And, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better.' " In fact, Woodward, known for his access to high-level officials, says Bush told leading Republicans, "I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney (the first dog) are the only ones supporting me." Of course not. Bush started plotting to invade Iraq before he even took office, according to Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, former National Security Council experts in their book The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. Bush and his cronies are so obsessed with Iraq they're willing to keep our troops fighting and bleeding over there until a new administration makes the hard decisions to bring them home. At the rate of 1 attack every 15 minutes, that's 80,928 attacks until Bush turns over the reigns! And each attack has the potential to kill more than 1 American or allied man or woman, not to mention the thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children who will die.
How can this man live with himself when he orders that troop tours be extended, as he just did again this month? Does Bush have delusions of grandeur or is he just delusional? He must think the history books are going to portray him as some great white leader bringing freedom to the poor, tortured masses of the Middle East. I think history will show him for the arrogant bully he is, so cocksure that he's right despite the facts that he thinks he can trample the world, bringing his own brand of democracy to people who have a right to make their own choices. Tragically, America will have to live with the repercussions of those choices for generations before we can win back the world's respect and trust. Might does NOT make right, unless you're George W. Bush.
I completely agree with you. I have no idea why Bush refuses to recognize the reality of the situation. This administratrion is worse then Reagan's where he was sitting there with Alzheimers and others were making all the decisions.
Posted by Anonymous | Tue Oct 03, 09:25:00 PM EDT