Bush admits Iraq 'miscalculations'

[rawstory]

As seen on the liberal alternative to Drudge: http://rawstory.com

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that he had miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq (news - web sites), the New York Times reported.

The paper quoted Bush as saying during a 30-minute interview that he made "a miscalculation of what the conditions would be" in post-war Iraq.

But he insisted that the 17-month-long insurgency was the unintended by-product of a "swift victory" against Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s military, the Times reported.

Bush said his strategy had been "flexible enough" to respond. "We're adjusting to our conditions" in places like Najaf, the paper quoted him as saying.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040827/ts_nm/bush_iraq_dc

[Fovea]

1. adjusting to our conditions

Means we got told to leave, and there was no oil to guard there, anyway.

[jdj]

14. ajdusting to the veterans #'s

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/naes/2004_03_veterans-views_%2008-26_pr.pdf

veterans agreed that the words "reckless" and "stubborn" applied more to Bush than to Kerry. It was about the only thing Kerry bitch-slapped him on, so he's "adjusting".

[krkaufman]

19. What a pussy poll puppet. n/t

[Goldom]

2. In other news, the Bush admin. just announced that

greenhouse gasses cause global warming. No, seriously, they just did. They just figured it out. Honest.

(woo 600 post!)

[Endangered Specie]

3. Mis-calculated?

Thats a bit of a underpowered way of putting it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. This is intended to show "humble" chimp.

chimp is an introspective simian now, he is able to see many sides of a issue, like a real human. chimp should eat a few pretzels.

[daleo]

17. LOL - I like the phrases "humble chimp" and introspective simian

I think you are right. This is dusting off a bit of the "humble super power" garbage of the last election campaign. There will be lots of such appeals to a more centrist position. It makes stealing the election seem more plausible, should that happen.

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. My Pleasure

:thumbsup:

[liberalcanuck]

52. LMAO! That is too damn funny. I love your username.

[TransitJohn]

5. I just can't believe

that these assclowns honestly thought that the Iraqi people would be overjoyed at seeing us wreak violence day after day in their streets. They're just lying scum, they knew how much violence this would take, and calculated that they could get the public to go for it all rah rah jingoistic style.

[alittlelark]

6. How about F*CKED UP???

this news is going out over a weekend , (how many papers can pick it up this late). This is F*CkED up . This way his 'B*sh is G*d' base will not see it (G*d is never in error), and they can say later that they 'had admitted mistakes'!!!


Have I told you people lately how much I hate this man???

[rawstory]

7. He should have told the report to 'F888 yourself'

Man. Too bad Cheney wasn't there.

[Tight_rope]

31. I hate him more!

[hang a left]

44. Well.........

It is the top story on my homepage. I think this is some kind of strategy before the convention.

[skooooo]

8. BWAHAAHHAHAH too little too late, chimpy....

...that's it, start admitting your failures now.

You're going down.

[Barrett808]

9. Rate this up: currently 1.92 with 203 votes n/t

[Snazzy]

13. 1.60 w/270 n/t

[Nordic]

21. Now at 2.8, 10pm Pacific time RATE IT!

it's just bizarre to me that these freepers hit these things so quickly and so throroughly

Don't they have anything better to do with their lives?

[Geo55]

10. Careful now .......

"miscalculation" is a kissin' cousin of MISTAKE ! ...idiot boy

I think they're back peddlin' on shrubs pigheaded image ...
gonna do a smoke an' mirror job on this stinkhole ....sweeten 'em up a bit.

[Sliverofhope]

11. Bigger story: Bush just quit the Freeper's war on terra!

He sees no immediate threat in Iran and North Korea having nuclear weapons! The Freepers should be boiling over in rage!

Bush has become a Frenchman communist, for crying out loud.

[TaleWgnDg]

12. cripes . . . this is sooooooooooo stupid . . .

Does GWBush and Company really believe that the American public will all of a sudden accept this political move from-right-to-middle that its spewing of late?

S'mattah, Georgie, the poll numbers got you scared?

===================================
"I'm sure something will pop into my head." — GWBush,
when asked to name the biggest mistake he had made
since 9/11. Presidential press conference, Washington,
D.C., April 13, 2004.

"Mission Accomplished" - GWBush in military flight jumpsuit
aboard U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, May 1, 2003

"You're doin a superb job!" -- GWBush
referring to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's
abilities in Iraq during the first week of publicized
abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military, U.S.
intelligence, and U.S. private contractors,
May 10, 2004, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
press conference, after cries that Rumsfeld
should resign (or be fired).
===================================

[Snazzy]

15. Yea Reuters!!! But that's not the NYT head, oh no it's not

Sanger and Bumiller:

Bush Dismisses Idea That Kerry Lied on Vietnam

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/campaign/27bush.html?hp


Obviously the FAR FAR more important angle.

Sources tell me that later sections of the interview will get into our Mars mission.

Head: US to Go to Mars, Bush tells RNC

paragraph 17, page 31: "Oh, and I really fucked up just about everything I've laid hands on, sorry! (Well, not really). My daddy's friends say they will fix it any day now. Hey, will ya look at this shiny golf club....."

[acmavm]

16. What he left out was "And if you'll give me another chance I'll show you

just how friggin' little I care. And I'm gonna do it some more and there's not a damn thing you can do about it."

[frylock]

20. bush admits iraq 'misundercalculations'..

must have just popped into his head.

[lebkuchen]

22. A picture file that is the result of Bush's "miscalculations"

Click on link below, then click on Multimedia on the left, then click on picture stories and then click on "killed in action." Click on each picture to move it along. The description of events is moving.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[liveoaktx]

23. Huh? *I don't think you give timelines to dictators* - unspoken is

*Unless their names are Saddam and they were agin' my poppy*

[LynnTheDem]

24. When he says "we're adjusting to our conditions"...

Does he mean like us slaughtering 74 Shi'ites in Najaf yesterday and the 600 Shi'ites that we slaughtered last month?

Just wondering.

[htuttle]

25. Well. I guess something finally 'popped' into his tiny head

Took long enough.

:eyes:

[truthisfreedom]

26. his "strategy?" "flexible enough to respond?" what a joker. this guy is

stiff as a board... couldn't u-turn if a dead end was coming up with 14 warning signs. rove's greasy handprints are all over this latest labor of lies.

[Pachamama]

27. Iraq Miscalculation? Gee George, Ya Think?

Boy King Genius speaks his "Mind" again....What an idiot.....

[pinniped]

28. Finally something "pops" into that piece of shit's head?

------ "We're adjusting to our conditions" in places like Najaf, the paper quoted him as saying.------

You've also adjusted the reasons for going to war.

* is the lowest form of slime on the planet and his gang is right there with him.

[Sivafae]

29. that man is going down! N/T

[Tight_rope]

30. 'miscalculations' = MAJOR FUCK UP.....n/t

[xxqqqzme]

32. and entering stage right

is Mr. Kompassionate Konservative; Mr. Humility; Mr. Moderation asswipe squatter. From now til Nov squatter is back 2 running left(which is still too far right)but governing Xtreme rong.

[moondust]

33. And soon he can 'miscalculate' on his own time.

With his own private money. With the private arms and legs and private lives of his private family and private friends. In his own private cell.

[randome]

34. He actually said the word 'Najaf'?

Probably pronounced it, "Throat-warbler mangrove".

[Seabiscuit]

35. "Ya got that?"

"Now watch this swing!"

[Disturbed]

36. Neo Fascist top dogs say...

Dumbass is a fuckup.



http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082604A.shtml

[SaintLouisBlues]

41. Thanks for the link...good read

You can't tell your fuck-ups without a scorecard.

[ima_sinnic]

37. UGH!! what an effing arrogant dumb@@@ bonehead:

"voters 'know who I am and I believe they're comfortable with the fact that they know I'm not going to shift principles or shift positions based upon polls and focus groups.'

in other words We The People can go fuck ourselves; it wouldn't matter if his approval was at 2%, the dickless wonderboy is a craven simpleton who will plunge recklessly and unconscienably ahead anyway with HIS grandiose plans for world dominance and empire.

"flexible strategy"?? did I miss something over the last 15 months?
fuck you George you stinking shithead coward.

[Judi Lynn]

38. God, we're not going to miss him.....

.

[DoYouEverWonder]

39. The main reason why Bu$h miscalculated

is because he doesn't give a shit.

He doesn't give a shit about you, me, the Iraqi people, or even his supporters. He only cares about himself. Numero Uno.

Look at what he did to NYC. Then he's has the guts to show up, blowing a bullhorn, hugging on hero's for his photo op, and what has he done for NYC since. Nothing.

For a man, who couldn't even bother to get off his ass on 9-11, why should he care about the 1000's of dead and wounded troops that he sent to Iraq for his 'miscalculations'. Because he really doesn't give a hoot.

[Malva Zebrina]

40. Nine hundred and sixty five dead soldiers

because of his lies and miscalculation.

[gatlingforme]

49. Yeah, but you see King Bush admits that it was all just a miscalculation

everything is okay now. (sarcasm)

[Jacobin]

42. HA!. That assumes there were "calculations" to begin with

which stretches the limits of credulity.

What an idiot.

[Francine Frensky]

43. Isn't this a flip-flop from when he said he had made no

mistakes??

And I think it is very debatable whether or not they are "adjusting to conditions"

[Jack Rabbit]

45. 'Miscalculations.' What an offensive word.

It's like he just momentarily thought twice two is five and made a little mistake.

Baloney. He invaded a sovereign state on false pretenses and he had to know the stated reasons were false. It was not a miscalculation. It was a coldly calculated war crime.

[karlrschneider]

46. Yeah, well, it's kinda hard to claim there are no ponies around

when you're standing hip-deep in horse shit.

[johnfunk]

47. I can hear Karl Rove already...

"Miscalculated... yeah, that's the ticket... tell the rubes we 'miscalculated' in Iraq!"

When a secret operation (read: Office of Special Plans) that takes a crapshoot and bends WMD intelligence goes bust, it can be written off as a "miscalculation."

Not.

A more appropriate term would be "impeachable offense."

[JoFerret]

48. Read the original in the NYTimes

where Bush is oblivious of his administration's about turn (aka flip-flop waffle) on global warming. Classic.He is ignorant and denies it. Has to be corrected by the attendant handlers who are hovering around him.

[MattNC]

50. more like ignorance and stupidity

Rely on your own Army War College, CIA and State Department, or a bunch of exiles who haven't been in the country in at least 30 years...:eyes:

[Bragi]

51. Who Knew?

Who could have known that the largest military force in human history would swiftly prevail over a rusted-out third-rate army?

Who could have predicted that this dyspeptic army would flee into the cities, rather than wait in the open desert to be slaughtered?

Who possibly could have forseen that firing the whole army, and the entire public service, wouldn't stabilize the situation?

And the architect of this bit of statecraft wants four more years at the helm?

- b

[Catherine Vincent]

53. You notice the rat bastard admitted miscalculation for POST-WAR

conditions and not the WAR itself. What an arrogant, stubborn PRICK!

[annabanana]

54. Let's not let this get buried in the "spy" stuff..

This is the "mistake" he couldn't remember making.