Bush laments "tough week," Bremer vows to rid Iraq of "poison"

[PfcHammer]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040411/wl_afp/us_iraq_040411175424

Bush laments "tough week," Bremer vows to rid Iraq of "poison"

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites) acknowledged US difficulties in Iraq (news - web sites), while the US administrator Paul Bremer said there was a crisis and called the mounting unrest a "poison" which US forces must purge.

"It was a tough week last week," Bush said on a visit to a major US military base in Texas as American forces and their allies struggled to contain Sunni and Shiite Muslim insurgents in Iraq.

Bush said new troops could be sent if needed but Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the head of US forces in Iraq, told US television that reinforcements for the 129,000 US troops in Iraq would not be needed.

The US president and his family went to an Easter Sunday church service at Fort Hood in Texas, which had been the base for dozens of troops who have died in Iraq over the past year. According to US media at least eight soldiers from the base have died in Iraq in the surge in unrest over the past week.

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"Our troops are tough," Bush added. "Our troops are taking care of business."

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[kalian]

1. Hmm...."taking care of business"....

Yup, protecting oil fields...and DYING for a corporate cause.
:mad:

[grytpype]

2. God, he's dumb.

If Bush were any dumber, we'd have to put wheels on him.

[Cocoa]

3. his fishing buddy said he seemed relaxed

:shrug:

[kalian]

10. Because its going "all according to plan"....

:eyes:

[AVID]

4. yea, *, its real tuff reeling in Bass from your 21' fishin boat

[burythehatchet]

5. One man's "tough week" is another man's ruined life

[0007]

16. ...or another's grave

or heartbreak for a mother, a wife, a child or a friend. `Yeah things were ruff last week in Crawford, 'eh junior? Yeah, `ya better get your bloody ass in church and pray to God the folks of this country don't come calling for your skin.

[Fovea]

6. Bremer vows to rid Iraq of "poison"

Great! Let's get him out there with a shovel and a pail to scoop up all the Depleted Uranium dust and bury it in the local dump we call Nevada.

I can't think of a better job for the creep.

[leftchick]

7. The only "poison" in Iraq is the US and their puppets ..Look at this home!

This is sickening...



Iraqi Sunni Muslim, identified as Abu Omar, leaves the blood covered kitchen of his house in the flashpoint town of Fallujah. A short-term ceasefire between US forces and insurgents in Fallujah appeared to be holding today as a US army helicopter was downed elsewhere.(AFP)

And these poor people burying their dead...




Iraqis carry a body to a grave in a soccer field turned into a cemetery, in Falujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, April 11, 2004. More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in the fighting in Fallujah the past week, the head of the city's hospital said Sunday. (AP Photo/Abdul Qader Assdi)

And this poor baby...




Wounded two year old Iraqi boy Ali Abdullah is carried by his father to a clinic after he was hurt by an overnight blast that destroyed their neighbour's home in the besieged town of Falluja April 11, 2004. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

[tlcandie]

13. How can anyone do anything but cry over this?!?

Look at all those temporary graves and in a soccer stadium!!! :wow: :cry:

Poor, poor children :cry: Will there be anyone left to tell the truth about the evil wrought upon them in the name of freedom, liberation, and democracy? :cry:

[daleo]

25. Bush likes having things named after him

This could become the George W. Bush Mass Grave Stadium.

[riverwalker]

24. such comforting, inspiring words

"tough week"? Over 55 dead in 10 days, and "tough week" is what these grieving and heartbroken families get? Thats the solace and support from their "War President" after losing a child? This guy has empathy for no one. He is a sociopath, I swear.

[renegade000]

8. oh we're cleaning up the depleted uranium now?

:eyes:

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. "Taking care of business"=killing/wounding the people that BELONG there

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They seem to overlook that the US doesn't BELONG there fur chrissake.

Let's see. They went in because Iraq was a threat (WMD's) and Saddam was a bad guy (killing his own people)

No WMD's

Saddam gone

Meet the new bad guy.

So far, the Americans and their coalition have killed over 15,000 Iraqis, and wounded countless others. Now most of their relatives and friends hate the Americans, and many will attempt to kill any American with no consideration for their own lives.

Over 600 (650+) Americans have died in this war, with over 11,000 in wounded, and countless other American Military, family and friends that will bear emotional scars to their graves.

And many still believe this was/is a good idea?

The USA Administration is insane.

That's my Canuk opinion.

[cliss]

11. Does anybody besides me think the rhetoric

and propaganda is increasing? It's just like a broken record. And they actually think that they can brainwash into believing their non-stop platitudes, if we hear it for the 560,000th time?

People are beyond that now. In the Middle Ages it might have worked, but I have my doubts even then.

The photos are horrific. My brain still refuses to register that my country is responsible for the killing and maiming of thousands of innocent men women and children. It doesn't compute.

[Malva Zebrina]

12. We did not think the Iraqi people were the enemy when we invaded

Iraq. It was Saddam that was the enemy, remember? No one said the Iraqi people were the enemy. The Iraqi military may have been seen as an enemy force, but the people were not the enemy. They were billed, as a matter of fact, as friends, just waiting at the gates of Babylon for the US to appear, take out Saddam, and free them

Except that in the course of those events, the US has abused the people of Iraq, took their stuff, destroyed their museums and leveled the ancient city to the ground in a mission incredibly called "Shock and Awe" and did so with manufactured lies--lies, lies--and they murdered ten thousand innocents on lies, lies lies of Colin Powell and George Bush the stupid.

Ten thousand were killed with the shock and awe and we expected those people to be our friends?

Multiply those by how many family members each may have had. And we get the resistance. It is Bush's fault that the resistance emerged to fight against the occupation of their country and to fight against the loss of their culture with all things Iraqi being taken from them, including a newspaper. They saw the mercenaries--

Now Bush calls them the enemy and Bremer calls them poison.

How much more idiotic can they be?

Our troops are taking care of business." says the idiot

He went AWOL--he does not know what taking care of business means.

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. It was their plan to do this in the so-called "change-ever" of troops

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The US created this situation on purpose EXACTLY at the time that there were extra troops there.

I believed LONG before they got there for the "turnaround" that they would just keep the troops that were already there, and start some major offensives.

Two things will happen with the tired troops.

Many, because of battle fatigue, and because of the mental distress thinking where they SHOULD be (at home with their wives, husbands, kids and families) will make errors that may cost them their lives.

Others, in their bitterness will be brutal with the Iraqis.

and all for what?

There ARE no WMD's,

Saddam is gone.

LET THEM TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN BUSINESS.

Heck, by reverse thinking,

It's OK for other countries to come to the United States and "take care of business".

Now they will.

Count on it.

[BeFree]

17. Yes, Marrianne,

When was it that the US declared war on the Iraqi PEOPLE?

June 30....that's when we have to listen to them as they tell us to get the hell out!

[Dudley_DUright]

18. Actually, when Bush says

"Our troops are taking care of business" what he means is they are taking care of the interests of Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, Bechtel...

[Veggie Meathead]

19. Long after the original rationales for this illegal war have been

exposed as frauds, notice how both parties, Democrats and Republicans, seem to say that it is a "just" war.I have not heard anyone with the notable exceptions of Senator Byrd and Kennedy, call this anything other than what it is-- an aggressive war as defined by the Nuremberg Tribunal.Joe Lieberman is especially nauseating in his fawning review of Condi Rice's performance.Bob Kerrey, the Vietnam War Criminal, has also taken to shilling for Bush from his perch on the9/11 Commission. Are we condemned to choosing between these two criminal gangs come November

[Karenina]

21. PNAC "bullet point"

Population reduction.

[leesa]

15. Good. When does Bremer leave?

[Piperay]

20. Bremer is an ass

just as much of a moron as his 'boss'. :argh:

[Chicago Democrat]

22. Bush, Bremer and Rumsfelt are really Darleks!

Obey! Obey!

Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!

Obey! Obey! Obey!

[Rex]

23. Freedom fighters are a 'poison' to repressive dictatorships.

With every one civilian we kill, two or more who loved the now departed become a freedom fighter.

"Why do they hate us for our freedoms"? Because we won't stop killing them until they are all free.

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. The only poison that needs getting rid of in Iraq is Bremer

and all those stormtroopers.

[amber dog democrat]

27. Lies and excuses

This is all I expect to hear from these thugs. If only we can kill enough of them to create peace. Regarding Bremer - Each day that passes we act more like oppressers.

This has to be about oil.

[The Stranger]

28. Indict Bremer.

[Skittles]

29. WHY HASN'T BREMER BEEN FIRED YET?

Two ROYAL f***ups: firing the Iraqi Army and shutting down that newspaer. The guy is in WAY over his head.

[opihimoimoi]

30. His Boss, Bush, is an incompetent and gets to appoint people,

usually other incompetents, to important positions and tasks.

These two guys are in over their heads. Rice too. All of them bums are.