[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Israel Iran Double Standard

Soros Funneled $8.3M into Leftist Group Trying to Turn Lone Star State Blue

California Democrats Under Fire for Buying Bricks During Protests

ICE Launches Campaign to Crack Down on Marriage Fraud Could Ilhan Omar Finally Face Justice?

Joe Rogan's podcast predicted violent LA riots two years ago leaving viewers stunned

Anti-migrant rioters shouting 'f*** off foreigners!'

Amazing things happen when you actually cut government spending.

25 Vaccine Death Stories To Share In Social Media

The White House just posted this:

US Anticipating Potential Israeli Attack on Iran

Grok Is Using a Far-Left Fact Check website to Smear and Censor Conservative Outlets on X

Over 300 UK Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning if they disagree with government's Gaza policy

Jimmy Dore: Here’s How Israel’s Massacres At Aid Sites Work!

Iran successfully tests missile with 2-ton warhead

Liberal Teachers Union Presidents Rally Behind LA Rioters

Ilhan Omars Daughter Applauds Anti-ICE Riots, Urges Death to Colonial Empire: U.S. and Israel One Oppressor

California Leaders Want United Nations Blue Helmets to Expel Federal Forces from the State

Tulsi Gabbard Warns of “Nuclear Holocaust” in Chilling 3-Minute Plea

LBMA Silver Short Position Now 2nd Largest In History

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Something BIG is happening right now in the Middle East, Israel ready to attack Iran

AMERICA ON FIRE: Riots & Chaos as Trump Quadruples ICE Raids!

THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE UNITED STATES (Emergency Banking Act)

In France, young women are starting to buy pet pigs to avoid being harassed by Muslim men

Elderly Veteran kills 3 Home Invaders

Number One Longevity Food

Inflation Highest In Democrat States, Lowest In Republican Deep South

TikToker admits to being paid $150 a day to protest Trump’s deportation policies in LA

A GREAT update on the Trump fraud case ($454.2 million judgment) at the appellate court.

Mexican Senate President Revives Territorial Claims Amid Los Angeles Civil Unrest


Neocon Nuttery
See other Neocon Nuttery Articles

Title: Bush warns Brown not to pull out of Iraq
Source: Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li ... icle_id=478944&in_page_id=1811
Published: Aug 31, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-08-31 08:11:05 by Eoghan
Keywords: None
Views: 373
Comments: 8

President George Bush attempted to pour cold water over Prime Minsiter Gordon Brown's plans to withdraw UK troops from Iraq by warning a lot of 'hard work' still remained.

The US president said western troops should only think of pulling out once they had completed the 'hard work' of defeating al Qaeda and Iranian-backed rebels.

"We need all our coalition partners.

"I understand that everybody's got their own internal politics.

"My only point is that whether it be Afghanistan or Iraq, we've got more work to do," he said.

Mr Bush's remarks, in an interview with Sky News, were his first public reaction to the clearest message yet from Britain that it intends to start withdrawing its 5,500 soldiers based in southern Iraq.

Downing Street and Foreign Secretary David Miliband made clear this week that any decision about a pull-out of British troops would be made on the basis of local conditions in Basra - regardless of the plight of US forces in Baghdad.

The new position is in stark contrast to Tony Blair's and follows a clear change of tone when Mr Brown met Mr Bush this summer.

It is expected that the Prime Minister will announce in October that British forces will hand over control of security to Iraqi troops and police across the whole of southern Iraq.

British troops will switch to 'overwatching status', monitoring their Iraqi counterparts but with reduced numbers - allowing soldiers to come home ahead of a possible general election.

But Mr Bush today made plain that he wanted to pursue his strategy of a 'surge' in troops and wanted allies to stay the course.

He spoke after US general David Petraeus, in charge of operations in Iraq - and due on 12 September to report on the effectiveness of the recent increase in US numbers - warned Australia not to go ahead with plans for a swift troop withdrawal.

Mr Bush widened this warning to include all the allies, saying: "What matters is success and I believe we can be successful.

"This hard work will achieve what we all want, which is over time fewer troops and peace.

"The main thing we want is to make sure that we deal these radicals and extremists a major blow, which is success in Iraq."

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

#1. To: Eoghan (#0)

"What matters is success and I believe we can be successful.

We would indicate two or more people.

And success after six years??? What an egoistic SOB.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-31   8:15:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Eoghan (#0)

"The main thing we want is to make sure that we deal these radicals and extremists a major blow, which is success in Iraq."

Iraq WAS a success and totally secular, Dumbya, until first your daddy and then you started "effing" with it because you wanted to steal the oil.

Excuse me, wanted to "share" production of the oil - 80/20 - with 20 going to those living on top of it. Very generous since it's "our" oil they were born on. < /sarcasm>

“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-08-31   8:29:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Eoghan (#0)

"I understand that everybody's got their own internal politics.

hahaha

Smirk finds Representative govt just a slight annoyance.

Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!

robin  posted on  2007-08-31   10:41:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: robin (#3)

I understand that everybody's got their own internal politics.

Some Lobbies are more equal than others...

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-08-31   10:46:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Eoghan (#4)

Clearly. And it's not about benefiting America either.

Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!

robin  posted on  2007-08-31   10:49:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Eoghan (#0)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2007-08-31   11:31:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Eoghan (#0)

Howard announced that Australia will be pulling out their 550 troops mid year 2008 at around the same time that the Brits leave. The Brits are down to 5000 troops located in 2 bases and these 2 bases are getting shelled multiple times each day. Brown does not want to lose power in future elections because he listened to Dumbo and stayed beyond the UK public's deadline.

Even though our 2 war parties would like us to occupy Eeeerak indefinitely, mid year 2008 is the last time we can exit without heavy duty casualties. If we stay beyond the time that the Aussies and Brits leave, our troops are screwed. Retreating south to Kuwait thereafter will be a bloody business.

scrapper2  posted on  2007-08-31   11:55:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: scrapper2 (#7)

British army chief attacks US as 'intellectually bankrupt' over Iraq

The former head of the British Army has attacked US postwar policy, calling it "intellectually bankrupt".

General Sir Mike Jackson, who headed the army during the war in Iraq, described as "nonsensical" the claim by the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that US forces "don't do nation-building". He has also hit back at suggestions that British forces had failed in Basra.

Mr Rumsfeld was "one of the most responsible for the current situation in Iraq," Gen Jackson says in his autobiography, Soldier. He describes Washington's approach to fighting global terrorism as "inadequate" for relying on military power over diplomacy and nation-building.

Friends till the end...

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-08-31   23:09:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest


[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]