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And while your at it, why dont you explain to me, how sending 20,000 more kids to the desert to be targets for trainee jihadists (see number 8) is going to help.
And he said as part of his (inevitable) rebuttal,
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They aren't "kids". They are soldiers. You offend them by saying otherwise.
Well Mr. fucking know it all. How do you wanna try and explain this?
MR. LEHRER: Is there a little bit of a broken egg problem here, Mr. President, that there is instability and there is violence in Iraq - sectarian violence, Iraqis killing other Iraqis, and now the United States helped create the broken egg and now says, okay, Iraqis, it's your problem. You put the egg back together, and if you don't do it quickly and you don't do it well, then we'll get the hell out.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah, you know, that's an interesting question. I don't quite view it as the broken egg; I view it as the cracked egg --
MR. LEHRER: Cracked egg?
PRESIDENT BUSH: -- that - where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg. And I thought long and hard about the decision, Jim. Obviously it's a big decision for this theater in the war on terror, and you know, if I didn't believe we could keep the egg from fully cracking, I wouldn't ask 21,000 kids - additional kids to go into Iraq to reinforce those troops that are there. Link
Pretty darned offensive to the troops? Or do you wanna move the goalposts around abit until it suits you?
And while Im at it...
MR. LEHRER: General Casey said yesterday that the commander said that it may be spring or even summer before we have any signs of success from the new program -
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes.
MR. LEHRER: -- from the new strategy, and even then I can't guarantee you that it's going to work. That's the general; that's the guy who is the commander.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, I - look, I mean, I think that's a -
MR. LEHRER: That's -
PRESIDENT BUSH: -- that's a sober assessment. Well, it's a sober assessment. I think he's not going to stand up and make guarantees that may or may not happen, but he is also the general who felt like we needed more troops, and he's also the general that believes this is the best chance of working. I think he's giving a realistic assessment for people.
Well pardon me, but I thought he was the general who originally opposed sending in more troops, arguing it could delay "the development of Iraqi security forces and increase anger at the United States in the Arab world."
I guess one more piece of complete bollox dribbling out of the prezzies mouth on public television isn't so surprising. But to use it as justification for escalation in the war to save his ego, is a bit low. Even by the standards of todays poloticians.
And you trust this man with your 'kids' lives?
Told you. I'm feeling belligerent.