President Bush Meets with National Security Team and Gives New Year's Resolution

[Jcrowley]

President Bush Meets with His National Security Team
Prairie Chapel Ranch
Crawford, Texas

11:59 A.M. CST



THE PRESIDENT: I just had a meeting with my national security team; this is the first time we've had a chance to sit down with Secretary Gates since he came back from Iraq. General Pace went with the Secretary; they reported firsthand what they saw and what they found. It's an important part of coming to closure on a way forward in Iraq that will help us achieve our objective, which is a country that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself. And Mr. Secretary, thank you for your timely trip and thank you for this important briefing.

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We want to help them succeed. And so we'll continue to consult with the Iraqis. I'm going to talk to Congress -- not only will I continue to reach out to Congress, but members of my team will do so, as well. I fully understand it's important to have both Republicans and Democrats understanding the importance of this mission. It's important for the American people to understand success in Iraq is vital for our own security. If we were to not succeed in Iraq, the enemy -- the extremists, the radicals -- would have safe haven from which to launch further attacks, they would be emboldened; they would be in a position to threaten the United States of America. This is an important part of the war on terror.

I'm making good progress toward coming up with a plan that we think will help us achieve our objective. As I think about this plan I'm always -- have our troops in mind. There's nobody more important in this global war on terror than the men and women who wear the uniform, and their families. And as we head into a new year, my thoughts are with them. My thoughts are with the families who have just gone through a holiday season with their loved one overseas. My thoughts are with the troops as we head into 2007.

People always ask me about a New Year's resolution -- my resolution is, is that they'll be safe and that we'll come closer to our objective, that we'll be able to help this young democracy survive and thrive and, therefore, we'll be writing a chapter of peace. I can't thank our families enough for supporting their loved one who wears the uniform, and I can't thank those who -- soldiers and sailors and airmen and Coast Guard men and woman, folks in the Air Force -- who represent the United States of America. May God continue to bless them.

Thank you all very much.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061228-1.html

[Ron Green]

1. Same shit, different year.

How stupid are the American people?

[ashling]

2. my resolution is, is that they'll be safe

then get them the hell out of there. I posted on this elsewhere. I am just to disgusted to write anything else on this, so I will just paste those comments here:


President 666 says his "thoughts" 9that's a stretch right there) are with the troops. "People often ask me if I have a New Years Resolution. My resolution is that they'll be safe"

I heard this on NPR as I rove up to the house this evening. I had planned to get straight to work on some woodturning, but I just had to register my disgust. And it registers on so many levels, that there is not time to do it justice, so let me just say this.

HE'S AN IDIOT !!! More precisely he is a supercillious ass whose ignorance is exceeded only by his verbocity!

If you weren't aware, Mr. President, the concept of a new year's resolution (as generally understood by , well, let's see......EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD ..... is a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.

If indeed he had made a resolution that the troops would be safe, then the troops in Iraq would already be on the way home. Out of harm's way.

And that's just the ones still in Iraq. What about those kids like the soldier on the fron of Esquire magazine, or Private Jennings, the PTSD victim at Ft. Carson who is being court marshalled because he couldn't get the mental assistance he needed to cope with the horrors that you subjected him too. Those guys are a long way from safe.

Got to stop typing, I'm about to start crying.


:puke: :puke::puke:

[badgerpup]

3. This is the statement that gets me...

"I'm making good progress toward coming up with a plan that we think will help us achieve our objective."

:grr: :argh: :puke:

Words...just...fail me.