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Originally posted by romantico
But Bush is using this capture for his own gain just like he's used 9/11 to his own benefit.People fall into the corporate/conservative media spin & easily loose focus. All day today I plan on reminding people We have the BEST Military in the world & the worst leader in the world & the Best Military is making the worst leader look good.I am very excited about Saddam's capture but its naturally asumed because I'm happy I MUST support Bush. I do Not. I don't see the connection between his capture & Bush.How is Bush right about the war because we captured Saddam? I'd be singing a totally different tune if we found WMD, but this is not what happened.
Praise our troops today & celebrate THEIR victory!!!!!
Originally posted by romantico
But Bush is using this capture for his own gain just like he's used 9/11 to his own benefit.People fall into the corporate/conservative media spin & easily loose focus. All day today I plan on reminding people We have the BEST Military in the world & the worst leader in the world & the Best Military is making the worst leader look good.I am very excited about Saddam's capture but its naturally asumed because I'm happy I MUST support Bush. I do Not. I don't see the connection between his capture & Bush.How is Bush right about the war because we captured Saddam? I'd be singing a totally different tune if we found WMD, but this is not what happened.
Praise our troops today & celebrate THEIR victory!!!!!
Originally posted by joehayner
Without the troops, Saddam would never have been found. Without the Commander-in-Chief, the troops would not even have the opportunity.
Originally posted by Fry2
Funny how when it goes right the libs go around beating the "Bush didn't find Saddam, the troops did" drum. When he was still on the run these same people were beating the "Bush can't even find Saddam" drum.
You can't have it both ways. (Even in liberal la la land.)
Originally posted by joehayner
No one person or organization can take credit for somthing like this. Without the troops, Saddam would never have been found. Without the Commander-in-Chief, the troops would not even have the opportunity. Without average citizens, the troops would have no motivation. Without politics, there would be no organized way to assemble troops, commanders, or average people. Without Republicans, without Democrats, without Independents, there are no politics.
Don't try to discredit anyone. You had part in it too.
Originally posted by ThePrankMonkey
how anyone can say bushing isnt giving credit where its due is blind deaf and dumb.
in his statement sunday afternoon he specifically credited the troops and the intelligence agents in iraq for their hard work in tracking him down and capturing him.
maybe if you bothered to hear his statement you would have known that and you wouldnt have assumed what it is that you are assuming and this thread wouldnt even exist.
and dont DARE accuse one politician of using a situation for their own gain.
who was it pray tell who was rallyed around the negative round table saying "he cant find saddam, he cant find osama, he isnt getting any results!"??? who was it who accused him of having a bad foreign policy BEFORE we got saddam and after is now back pedaling acting as if they supported him the entire time?
who voted FOR the war in iraq and then said we shouldnt be there? (kerry, daschle, hillary...in case your memory is slipping)
bush didnt gloat over this, in fact noone in his administartion has or will. they are happy about this but have enough maturity not to be spiteful and throw kerry's, hillary's, dean's, daschle's, gore's, sharpton's, clark's, lieberman's words right back in their face.
the stock market is on the rise, the economy is coming back, we now have saddam. bush's plans are coming to fruition. how? by being patient and staying the course. not rushing in expecting results in one week and then cutting and running. he's thinking positively and acting positively, not negatively like the head democrats who are relying on america and bush failing and being miserable to get more supporters. he knows full well what he wants to get done will take longer than a week or a month. it will take years. some of you people have extremely unrealistic expectations for bush and no matter what he does right you will never be happy.
america's and bush's successes are like poison to the democrats. after calling bush a failure for so long and now that we are seeing the results he is trying to obtain, it is apparent with each day the democrats have less and less to whine about.
first they bash him over and over over not having found saddam and now that we have him they downplay it and says it doesnt mean anything, it hasnt made us safer and its not a big deal but it was BEFORE we got him wasnt it? so big in fact they brought it up week in and week out. not even 24 hours after the news breaks out that we have him they are hammering him again, where's osama? where's the WMD? they never stop. he has done more than they thought he was capable of doing and yet they still hammer him, they still doubt him, they still bash him without shame.
after letting ted kennedy author the latest education bill and giving senior citizens the BIGGEST drug entitlement in history (which the AARP endorsed, and the democrats flamed the AARP for it) they STILL hate him. in fact they hate him more. he is taking their issues away from them and taking care of them himself! and they cant stand it! deny it all you want but he has shown more compassion than they have in some respects. you would have thought everyone would have been happy senior citizens were getting the biggest drug entitlement in history but the democrats werent, why? because social security and medicare are THEIR issues and bush took it away from them and gave seniors what they wanted and they HATE him for it.
kennedy wrote the latest education bill (which passed into law) and STILL the democrats want more. including kennedy himself!
bush has bent over backwards and has done as much as any person could expect from him to cooperate with democrats and work with them and they still arent happy. whats good for americans and bush is bad for democrats and they cant stand to see bush winning the war in iraq, they cant stand to see bush taking issues away from them and handling them better than they have. they cant stand to see the economy make a come back from fear it will make people think "hey the economy is making a come back! maybe bush IS doing a good job" they are doom and gloom naysayers who only live to see americans lose more jobs, they want the economy to stay bad or get worse, they want bush to fail in iraq (we have saddam cant do much better than that!). they want something bad to happen to us in the hopes that people will buy into their BS.
so dont give me that BS that bs isnt giving credit where's its due and is using this for his own gain. the democrats the past 24 hours have been doing spin doctoring, back pedaling and twisting this for THEIR own gain. they barely acknowledged his success and did so begrudgingly.