Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (483074)	10/28/2003 10:35:36 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Respond to of 769667

<<If they continue to resist, they are legitimate targets for military action.>> Exactly! As long as Iraqis continue to resist their liberation we have no choice but to kill them. Why can't those liberal pinheads understand this? Steve Dietrich

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (483074)	10/28/2003 10:37:17 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush Blames Baathists, Foreigners for Latest Attacks By Mike Allen and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, October 28, 2003; 1:36 PM President Bush used a Rose Garden news conference today to compare the suicide bombers plaguing troops in Iraq to the terrorists who attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, and said the United States is "not leaving" in the face of escalating casualties and chaos. "Basically what they're trying to do is cause people to run," he said. "They want to kill and create chaos. That's the nature of a terrorist. That's what terrorists do. . . . They're not going to intimidate America." Facing polls that report deepening distrust of his command of Iraq, Bush looked relaxed but spoke in sober tones that contrasted markedly with the Texas bravado of his earlier invitations for the terrorists to "bring it on." Bush said the government is "trying to determine the nature of who these people were," but he said he "would assume" they include a combination of terrorists who have come in from other countries and remnants of Saddam Hussein's Baathist government. He said they are trying to create "conditions of fear and retreat" with attacks that killed at least three dozen people on Monday and another five in a car bombing and rocket-propelled grenade attack today. "The terrorists rely on the death of innocent people to create the conditions of fear that therefore will cause people to lose their will," he said. "That's their strategy. And it's a pretty clear strategy to me. . . . It's in our interest that we do our job for the free world." Bush twice compared the guerrilla assaults in Iraq, which have included bombings of United Nations and Red Cross headquarters, to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. "It's the same mentality, by the way, that attacked us on September the 11th, 2001," he said. "Just destroy innocent life, and watch the great United States and their friends and allies, you know, crater in the face of hardship" Against lightly overcast skies, Bush said the nation "must never forget the lessons of September the 11th." "The terrorists will strike, and they will kill innocent life -- not only in front of a Red Cross headquarters, they will strike and kill in America too," he said. "We are at war." Under occasionally blunt and skeptical questioning, Bush did not acknowledge any shortfall in his pre-war assessments or his planning for the reconstruction, and did not accept a questioner's invitation to acknowledge that his declaration of "victory" on an aircraft carrier on May 1 had been premature. Bush said his strategy includes making targets harder to attack and by getting more "actionable intelligence to intercept the missions before they begin." "Iraq's a dangerous place," he said. "I can't put it any more bluntly than that. I know it's a dangerous place. And I also know our strategy to rout them out, which is to encourage better intelligence and get more Iraqis involved and have our strike teams ready to move, is the right strategy." Continuing his complaint that news accounts have given short shrift to progress in Iraq, Bush pointed to the opening of schools and hospitals and said electricity capacity had returned to prewar levels. "Nearly 2 million barrels of oil a day are being produced for the Iraqi people," he said. "We've got to look at the whole picture." He added, "What the terrorists would like is for people to focus only on the conditions which create fear; that is, the death and the toll being taken." Bush did not directly answer when he was asked whether he was considering sending more U.S. troops to help restore order, saying that was up to Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East. Asked whether he could promise that he would have reduced the number of troops in Iraq a year from now, Bush said curtly that was "a trick question, so I won't answer it." Continued: URL:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29010-2003Oct28.html