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Interview with CBS news, Sept. 6, 2006
COURIC: You have said we can’t cut and run on more than one occasion. We have to stay until we win. Otherwise, we’ll be fighting the terrorists here at home on our own streets. So what do you mean exactly by that, Mr. President?
BUSH: Well, I mean that a defeat in Iraq will embolden the enemy and will provide the enemy – more opportunity to train, plan, to attack us. That’s what I mean. There – it’s – you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. I believe it. As I told you, Osama bin Laden believes it. But the American people – have gotta understand that a defeat in Iraq – in other words, if this government there fails - the terrorists will be emboldened, the radicals will topple moderate governments.
I’m worried, Katie, strongly worried about a world if we – if – if we lose, you know, our confidence and don’t help – defeat this ideology, I’m worried that 50 years from now they’ll look back and say, “How come – Bush and everybody else didn’t see the fact that these – this group of people would use oil to affect our economy?”
COURIC: You have said we can’t cut and run on more than one occasion. We have to stay until we win. Otherwise, we’ll be fighting the terrorists here at home on our own streets. So what do you mean exactly by that, Mr. President?
BUSH: Well, I mean that a defeat in Iraq will embolden the enemy and will provide the enemy – more opportunity to train, plan, to attack us. That’s what I mean. There – it’s – you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. I believe it. As I told you, Osama bin Laden believes it. But the American people – have gotta understand that a defeat in Iraq – in other words, if this government there fails - the terrorists will be emboldened, the radicals will topple moderate governments.
I’m worried, Katie, strongly worried about a world if we – if – if we lose, you know, our confidence and don’t help – defeat this ideology, I’m worried that 50 years from now they’ll look back and say, “How come – Bush and everybody else didn’t see the fact that these – this group of people would use oil to affect our economy?”
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Date: 2007-04-11 01:01 am (UTC)From:He never fails to FASCINATE me with this new language he has developed :)
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Date: 2007-04-17 04:02 pm (UTC)From:I think the only consolation for the debacle known as the Bush administration is that the next generation of Americans will learn how not to run a country; squandering international goodwill, turning a budget surplus into a devastatingly huge deficit, and sending thousands of young American men and women to their deaths in the name of who knows what. Power? Money? Or the even more nebulous "victory"?
The world stage is not a high school football game. Grrr.