Delivered on the House floor:
Madam Speaker, in 1993, when professional-baseball owners were deciding how to rehabilitate the reputation of baseball, after the player's strike, they debated whether to enact a wild-card rule to allow a second-place team into the playoffs. Only one owner at the time voted against this: Texas Rangers general partner George Bush.
When the rule passed 27-1, at the time the President said, "I made my arguments and went down in flames...History will prove me right." [Associated Press, 9/9/93]
Since then, nearly a third of World Series champions have been wild-card teams, including the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox.
The rule helped saved baseball as history has shown.
And just like his baseball predictions, President Bush sings a very similar tune about Iraq, he says, "History will prove whether I'm right. I think I'll be right..."[Whitehouse.gov, March 29, 2006]
Really?
Five years today since his speech on "Mission Accomplished," and let's take stock.
More than 4,000 lives have been lost.
Tens of thousands of American men and women have been injured.
We've spent over $475 billion in taxpayer dollars, with the price tag continually going up.
History will be the judge of whether once again George Bush's record and America's reputation will go down in flames.
At this rate he's going to be 0 for 2.
Your overall point is well-taken. You just need to trade your speech writer for cash or a player to be named later.
Here's a better analogy:
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, Bush has only been right ONCE in 15 years!
Otherwise, your party in complicit in it as well. Better yet, have the large corps such as Halliburton, Bechtel, KBR, Lockheed Martin et. al. been giving your party money as well?
That fact is that our government needs to be radically changed - we need to get rid of the Fed or at least make sure investment bankers aren't hired to bail our their buddies with taxpayer's money and we need to really think about just getting rid of Senators also - think about it. When was the last time a Senator in your state actually DID something to earn his salary?
And you know exactlly why you supported the war - it's not about Iraq. It's about Iran and Israel and making sure we have a military strategicially placed in a country near both of them.
The war has greatly hurt terrorist groups who mean us harm and Bush has done a good job of protecting American soil as well. I know this article will be praised by those on this site only becuase you are preaching to the already converted.
Apparently we only care about bad dictators in Iraq.
Impeach Cheney yet, Rahm?
Impeach BOOOsh yet, Rahm?
Still funding mercenary armies like Blackwater and Triple Canopy, Rahm?
Thanks to the DLC and DINOs like you, Congress is 0 for 3, Rahm. STFU.
Petraeus reported in April 2008 that there are 540,000 Iraq Security Forces,
the US has 140,000 Troops, Allies have 10,000. That is 690,000 and I think you have to add the Awakening Force (Sons of Iraq) which was reported to be 80,000 at $16 Million/Month which would bring the total to 770,000 Good Guys vs. 6000 Bad Guys. We have have lost over 4063, they have lost about 4000, we have had 30,000 wounded, Al Qaeda have had ??? wounded. Allies have lost 310, Allies have over 1000 wounded, Iraqi Security Forces killed ????? (top secret), over 100,000 Iraqi Security Forces Wounded, over 100,000 Iraqi Civilians have died due to War related incidents, 300,000 - 500,000 Iraq Civilians have been wounded, over 4 Million Iraqi's have been displaced from homes in the FIRST FIVE YEARS.
If we continue this TERRIFIC PROGRESS it will take at least another 7 years to kill or capture the remaining 6000 Al Qaeda. ALL the other metrics will most likely follow i.e. another 4000 Dead GI's.
OOOPS I forgot, we have to continue fighting the CIVIL WAR until there is only ONE PARTY remaining. Then we will have come FULL CIRCLE.
Of course as a result of this great track record General Petraeus will be promoted to Head of CENT COM and awarded the 5th Star by June 2008.
The subsequent Bush years evolved into an American foreign policy indistinguishable from Israel’s, and American resources, capital and personnel were placed at the disposal of Israel strategists. The aim and focus of the planners in the Pentagon and the White House became blurred as they were some of the same people who, just a few years earlier, as members of the American Enterprise Institute and other think tanks financed by Israel and charged with providing policy analysis for Israel instituted plans which were identical to those provided previously to the government of Israel. Those plans included the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq which had been a long standing objective of Israel strategists. The Saddam Hussein government of Iraq had long been deemed to have been a regional threat to Israel, but it was not a threat to the United States, though Bush convinced the American people otherwise and also that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The Democrats' leadership has been pathtic since 2000 and especially since 2006. They've had the country behind them and still cower to George Bush. Bush has run all over the American people and the Democrats have enabled him to do so.
Our Election process is America is broken, the 2 party system has no credibility- We need a 3rd party-
Much like the Bush administration, the Pelosi era will go down as being one of the most ineffective Congress' this nation's ever seen.
Congressman Emanuel..........please do your best in righting this country. That is all we can ask of our representatives. This tone of negativity, vitriol and angst has to stop. This site has become a sick sick place where issues take a back seat to personal insult.
Please, sir, keep up your articles and ignore the filth directed at you. While I do not agree with all your opinions I can respect them.
Just like this anti-war song says:
http://www.thebassguy.com/sittinonatimebomb.mp3
"the president's on TV, playin Lets Make a Deal....his friends are on the golf course, while OURS are in the field.....