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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Thursday, January 11 2007, 19:56:49 (CET)
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This is the price Bush has to pay for sleeping in the same bed with the Saudis Kingpins.

The Saudis threatened Bush and Cheney last month, that if America pulls out of Iraq now, they will send 20,000 soldiers into Iraq to help the Sunnis. They KNOW there's a FULL SCALE CIVIL WAR in Iraq between the Sunni and the Shiaa, that AMERICA started whith the blessings of the Saudis. Now America is being held hostage by the Saudi terrorists, because it is only now that the Saudis are realizing the deal they made with the Ruling Elite is going to bite them in the you know what!

The Saudis betrayed their own brothers in Iraq when they cleared the way for America to bomb Iraq in 1991 and again in 2003, and ALL FOR BLOOD MONEY! Now the situation is so dire, the Middle East has become a powder keg, and could explode any second now, especially with Israel getting ready to blast Iran off the face of the earth!

All this was done in the name of bringing DEMOCRACY to the Middle East. Mr. Bush, should you have started by bringing democracy to Saudi Arabia? Or is that name too sancrosanct? Even better, you could have started by bringing democracy to America, instead of fascism, the way you did by creating the FOURTH REICH, here at home!

You can send 21 MILLION American troops to Iraq BUT YOU WILL NEVER WIN THE WAR ON OUR PEOPLE!!!

Americans weigh new Bush plan for Iraq By ERIN McCLAM, AP National Writer
2 hours, 36 minutes ago

Saundra Clagett has spent days bouncing from one conclusion to another about what the United States should do about Iraq. She knew this much: She was glad it wasn't her decision. So Clagett and her husband, both veterans, settled in Wednesday night to watch President Bush explain to the nation why he was sending 21,500 additional U.S. troops into the war. She listened, and was unconvinced.

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"The bottom line is that we need to bring our troops home," Clagett said after the speech from her home in Fayetteville, N.C., near Fort Bragg. "I think we've done all that we can do. This is Iraq's civil war. There comes a time when they have to stand on their own."

Frustrated by mounting U.S. deaths in Iraq, looking for a way out or a way forward in the nearly four-year-old conflict, Americans considered Bush's plan Wednesday night and responded with a mixture of frustration and cautious, last-ditch hope.

Adam Pollet, a Harvard University student from Atlanta, rushed into the bar Cambridge Common to grab some friends, then focused his attention on Bush's prime-time address.

"I think he's trying to do the best he can," Pollet said, "but I don't think he has any idea that's better than anyone else's."

The reinforcements announced by Bush would bring the U.S. military presence in Iraq to more than 150,000 troops. The president also steeled the country for more violence and said he had made a mistake by not ordering more troops there last year.

He was speaking to a nation that has in large part soured on the war, which last month claimed its 3,000th American life.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll in December put approval of Bush's handling of the war at 27 percent, a record low, and a majority of voters interviewed in exit polls during the midterm elections said they favored pulling some or all troops from Iraq.

Even among Americans who applauded Bush's decision to bolster the American military presence in Iraq, there were questions about why the reinforcements were only being sent now.

"I'd love to know what took him so long to come to this realization," said Wayne Muller, who watched the speech from his home in Raleigh, N.C., and whose son, Cpl. Danny Muller, serves in Iraq's volatile Anbar province.

"We either have to get the troops in there to get the job done or bring them home," Muller said.

Some who watched the speech said in interviews they were at least hopeful it might quell the raging violence in Iraq — even if they were unsure the troop surge would be effective.

"I have no idea if this is going to work, but he's got a plan — let's hope it does," money manager Richard Earl said at an upscale restaurant in the financial district of Miami.

At the same restaurant, mortgage lender Antonio Ortiz said, "We can't just leave."

In other places, there was less reserved support for Bush and the reinforcement strategy. At an American Legion post near Fort Hood, Texas, Vietnam veteran George Payntar said he backed the president's plan.

"I think we need to stop the terrorism, stop it there," said Payntar, whose daughter has been stationed in Iraq since October. "If we pull out, they'll be here. I am afraid if we pull out now, we would lose the progress we made and the Iraqi people would suffer greatly."

The steady slide in public support for the war has been remarkable: Even in Utah, a Bush electoral stronghold, a recent Salt Lake Tribune poll found less than half of respondents supported Bush's war plans.

"I was pleased that he didn't try to be overly optimistic," said Bart Barker, 52, who watched the Bush address from his home in Draper. "The way he talked about deploying added troops does give me a little hope."

Watching with particularly keen interest were the parents of the U.S. troops who have served in Iraq, are serving there now or are soon to be deployed. One was Nancy Caley of Columbus, Ohio, whose son will be dispatched to Iraq early this year.

"If we're going to do that, we need to go in and take care of business," she said, adding she would like to see more focused fights against insurgents and that the additional troops should lead to a resolution of U.S. involvement in Iraq.

The father of an Ohio soldier who went missing following a 2004 fuel-convoy ambush west of Baghdad said Bush's plan to send more troops is what the United States has "got to do."

"It's our job to support him," said Keith Maupin, father of Army reservist Sgt. Keith "Matt" Maupin. "It's a tough call."

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Associated Press writers Mike Baker in Raleigh, N.C., Brandie M. Jefferson in Cambridge, Mass., M.R. Kropko in Cleveland, Erica Ryan in Columbus, Ohio, Brock Vergakis in Salt Lake City, Elizabeth White in Killeen, Texas, and Laura Wides-Munoz in Miami contributed to this report.

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