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 : New FADG. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: michael97123 who wrote (2113)	7/9/2007 1:11:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4152

What about today's NYT report that bush admin is considering an exit plan now that its clear that iraqi government wont step up to the plate even after the sacrifice the US has made particularly in the past few months. 3600 and counting. "administrating officials are discussing" says the NYT. Well of course they are, they have to. But they are really discussing strategies to hang on, while the NYT is trying to make it sound like they are ready to throw in the towel. Haven't you learned yet how to read NYT reports on the Bush administration? Go back and read the previous reports, see how accurate they were.

To: michael97123 who wrote (2113)	7/10/2007 2:45:34 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 4152

Have you read "Takedown" by Brad Thor yet michael? Think it could happen again in NYC? Or other place in the US?

To: michael97123 who wrote (2113)	7/10/2007 2:47:49 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 4152

Also, IF the funding of the Military is cut for Iraq, I will be out on the picket line to bring our troops back immediately. The damage will have been done when the funding is halted, and the terrorism will continue.

To: michael97123 who wrote (2113)	7/12/2007 4:23:20 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 4152

Say, mike, here are two NYT articles on the Bush administration and Iraq, dated July 10 and 11. Would you say these articles support or contradict the NYT report of two whole days ago (July 9) that the administration was ready to cave on Iraq and present an exit plan? What did I tell you about how you have to read NYT reports on the Bush administration? Bush Counters G.O.P. Dissent on Iraq Policy WASHINGTON, July 10 — Fearful of a Republican rebellion over Iraq that his own aides believe could force him to change course, President Bush said Tuesday that the United States would be able to pull back troops “in a while,” but asked Congress to wait until September to pass judgment on a future military presence there. cont at nytimes.com Bush to Declare Gains in Iraq on Some Fronts By DAVID S. CLOUD and JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 12, 2007 WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Bush administration will assert in the next few days that progress in carrying out the new American strategy in Iraq has been satisfactory on nearly half of the 18 benchmarks set by Congress, according to several administration officials. But it will qualify some verdicts by saying that even when the political performance of the Iraqi government has been unsatisfactory, it is too early to make final judgments, the officials said. The administration’s decision to qualify many of the political benchmarks will enable it to present a more optimistic assessment than if it had provided the pass-fail judgment sought by Congress when it approved funding for the war this spring. The administration officials who provided details of the draft report to The New York Times, insisting on anonymity, did so partly to rebut claims by members of Congress in recent days that almost no progress had been made in Iraq since President Bush altered course by ordering the deployment of about 30,000 additional troops earlier this year. The report will land in the middle of a two-week Senate debate that has pitted advocates of an early American troop withdrawal against Mr. Bush, who wants to defer major policy decisions on Iraq until September, when a more comprehensive report is due from the top two Americans in Iraq, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and Gen. David H. Petraeus. cont at nytimes.com