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    Boring = 4 Rings SA210's Avatar
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    "We're making steady progress. A free Iraq will mean a peaceful world. And it's very important for us to stay the course, and we will stay the course."

    -- George W. Bush, July 10, 2003

    "Listen, we've never been stay the course"

    -- George W. Bush, October 22, 2006

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    "We're making steady progress. A free Iraq will mean a peaceful world. And it's very important for us to stay the course, and we will stay the course."

    -- George W. Bush, July 10, 2003

    "Listen, we've never been stay the course"

    -- George W. Bush, October 22, 2006
    hehe...
    What can I say...

    I was for it, before I was against it.

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    Damn, flip flopper.

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    The Great Eight Ocotillo's Avatar
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    What color is the sky in Bush World?

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    "The Madness of King George"

    dubya has flipped from being just flippin' stupid to being flippin' flipped out.
    Last edited by boutons_; 10-23-2006 at 09:10 AM.

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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    I have no idea where anyone could get the impression Bush was staying on a certain course.

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    Dumbya proves he's an idiot once again. No wonder Yoni and XYZebrastripes understand him so well.

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    Bush has been quoted by journalist Bob Woodward as saying, "I'll stay in Iraq even if the only support I have left is from my wife and my dog."



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    Too weird to live, and too rare to die. midgetonadonkey's Avatar
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    Bush has been quoted by journalist Bob Woodward as saying, "I'll stay in Iraq even if the only support I have left is from my wife and my dog."


    That's what a good leader would do.

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    That's what a good leader would do.
    Haven't you heard?

    Bush says he was never for staying the course.

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    Live by what you Speak. DarkReign's Avatar
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    This guy rules. He would be so much funnier in a television role as President. Sadly, hes the real deal.

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    i hunt fenced animals clambake's Avatar
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    ^ you don't have a very high regard for our pres.

    You must have based your opinion on recent history.

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    Too weird to live, and too rare to die. midgetonadonkey's Avatar
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    I pray Bush gets a raging case of herpes.

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    "We're making steady progress. A free Iraq will mean a peaceful world. And it's very important for us to stay the course, and we will stay the course."

    -- George W. Bush, July 10, 2003

    "Listen, we've never been stay the course"

    -- George W. Bush, October 22, 2006
    As usual, you libs don't have your facts straight. It wasn't the President who said the above quote - it was White House Counselor Dan Bartlett. The President hasn't used that phrase in over two months.

    Also, staying the course doesn't necessarily mean using the same strategy - it means staying in Iraq until the job is done. And on that, the President has never wavered.

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    link

    Say what?

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    What the are you talking about?

    I linked two direct quotes from George W. Bush -- one link is from the Department of Defense website and the other even has a video of Bush saying the exact words. You won't find the word Bartlett anywhere in either article.

    Where is your Bartlett link? We're waiting.

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    That was obviously Dan Bartlett, you idiot.

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    2nd Verse Same as the 1st Oh, Gee!!'s Avatar
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    The President hasn't used that phrase in over two months.
    Well in that case: 4 more years!!!

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    Here ya go!!


    Bush Drops `Stay the Course' on Iraq to Emphasize Flexibility

    By Richard Keil and Demian McLean

    Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration has dropped the phrase ``stay the course'' from discussions about Iraq as a recent surge in violence has forced a change in tactics on the ground and renewed calls in the U.S. for a different approach to the conflict.

    President George W. Bush remains committed to the goal of setting Iraq up to govern itself and take responsibility for quelling sectarian strife, Press Secretary Tony Snow said today. Because the administration is flexible about how to achieve those goals, he said, Bush is no longer talking about sticking to one approach.

    `It left the wrong impression about what was going on,'' Snow said. ``And it allowed critics to say, `Well, here's an administration that's just embarked upon a policy of not looking at what the situation is,' when, in fact, it's just the opposite.''

    Democrats have been repeating the phrase, which Bush has used in speeches and other remarks, in their criticism of the president's policy as they campaign overturn the Republican majority in Congress in the Nov. 7 election. The administration and congressional Republicans are countering by trying to reshape the debate on the war, which polls show is increasingly unpopular with the U.S. public.

    Snow and White House Counselor Dan Bartlett stressed that the U.S. is being flexible while staying true to the president's overall strategy.

    Flexibility

    ``It's never been a stay-the-course strategy,'' Bartlett said on CBS's ``Early Show,'' one of five morning news programs where he gave interviews today. ``Strategically, we think it's very important that we stay in Iraq and we win in Iraq.''
    Snow also said the U.S. is pressing the Iraqi government to take more responsibility for quelling the sectarian and insurgent violence that has wracked the country, while declining to issue firm deadlines for achieving milestones.

    ``We're not in the business of issuing ultimatums,'' Snow said.

    ``This has always been a dynamic policy that is aimed at moving forward, at all times, on a number of fronts,'' he said. Bush hasn't used the phrase ``stay the course'' for at least two months, according to Snow.

    Communications strategists working with House Republicans circulated a three-page memo today that advises candidates to stress those same points in their campaigns. It suggests Republicans highlight past statements by military and administration officials that show that the U.S. is adapting to changing military conditions and requiring Iraqi police and security forces to take a more prominent role in combating sectarian violence.

    `Winning'

    ``Winning means helping the Iraqis achieve stability and security and doing it as quickly and effectively as possible in order to bring our troops home,'' the memo states in a section outlining suggested talking points for candidates. ``We continue to work with the Iraqis to do this.''

    Bush is under increasing pressure to change his Iraq strategy as casualties mount more than three years after the U.S.-led invasion. At least 81 military personnel have been killed in action this month, the highest total since November 2004. Six soldiers and four Marines were killed since Oct. 21, the U.S. Army said in e-mailed statements.

    An independent bipartisan commission established by Congress and headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Representative Lee Hamilton plans to make recommendations on U.S. policy in Iraq after the November election.

    Britain's army chief, General Richard Dannatt, said Oct. 13 that U.K. soldiers in Iraq are in danger of exhaustion and that they should be withdrawn in ``a year or two or three.''

    Election

    Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of the administration's Iraq policy, said a change in Congress may bring a change in Iraq.

    The outcome of the election ``will determine if we have any chance of getting the administration off its absolutely, totally failed policy in Iraq,'' Biden said in a conference call with reporters.

    Biden said that two Republican senators, who he refused to name, have given him private assurances that they will join a bipartisan effort to force a change in administration policy if Democrats make significant gains in the election.

    Bush met two days ago with his military commanders to discuss strategy, after a security clampdown by U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad was met with a surge in sectarian violence.

    Bush acknowledged the same day that the situation in Iraq remains difficult. ``As we engage our enemies in their stronghold, these enemies are putting up a tough fight,'' he said in his weekly radio address.

    U.S. public optimism about the outlook for the war in Iraq has dropped to just 20 percent, compared with 45 percent in June, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll of 1,006 registered voters. The survey, published Oct. 19, had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

    To contact the reporters on this story: Richard Keil in Washington at [email protected] ; Demian McLean in Washington at [email protected]

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    It wasn't the President who said the above quote
    This bears repeating. Either she was too lazy or stupid to click the link to see Bush saying the exact words I quoted, or she is in such an advanced state of denial that her warped mind changed the words, image and voice of her beloved President into his lawyer.

    Well, which is it?

    Oh, and I actually found where Bartlett said it, no thanks to you. Gee, shanks, do you think these guys might get together and discuss what to say on the news talk shows?

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    Here's Bartlett on video saying it.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/qZE20lzZZF0

    Now, let's see if she can figure out the guy who is the President of the United States in this clip.

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    "The President hasn't used that phrase in over two months."

    holy ing , you people are amazing.

    dubya's ridiculed for parroting simplistically his world-famous slogan "stay the course" for what, 2+ years?, and now because he quit saying it, he now can say he NEVER said it?

    This Repug WH is so much like Nixon's "fin de regime" WH, where Tricky's press secretary (aka liar) Ron Zielger was immortalized for saying, paraphrase, "what we said before is inoperative", as if they had their fingers crossed behind their back giving them a child-like exception from telling the truth.
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    Actually, I'm at work and I don't have the capability to hear video clips - so excuuuse me! I read the article and used that as my source.

    Of course they get together and talk about what to say - just as the democrats do. Why do you think they all say the same thing on almost every issue. I've heard montages that Rush has done on this very "phenomenon" and it's quite hilarious to hear all the different democrats saying the same thing, and usually it's the same soundbite that the dinosaur media is using.

    However, you ignored the second part of my post. You know, where I said that "staying the course" means staying in Iraq until the job is done.

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    Listen, we've never been stay the course
    It's never been a stay-the-course strategy

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