Bush 'grieved' by 4,000 deaths in Iraq

Later today, Bush is to participate in a secure video conference with Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador in Iraq, ahead of their report to Congress next month on conditions in Iraq.

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I love the gratuitous "secure video conference" reference, which was undoubtedly the WH's language. Certainly inspires confidence, doesn't it? We have high tech equipment and we will ensure that no bad guess will intercept.

To me this is akin to the Wingnuts always talking about Bush is "workin' hard to protect the 'amercan people." That's not a special attribute; it's a minimum job requirement.

So rest assured, sheeple, Dear Leader is not going to conduct an unsecured video conference with his top representatives in Iraq. In case you had any doubt on the point, be assured that they will not let that happen.

How low can we possibly set the bar?

I'm a Soldier in the U.S. Army and when I heard news of the 4000 death mark I became sick to my stomach. I'm lucky enough to have been to Iraq and return home to my family but so many of my fellow Soldiers have not been as fortunate. And in my heart i feel like every one of those 4000 deaths our president is to be blamed for.

I've opened up a discussion on my blog so I can talk to people and answer their questions and hopefully make people understand that not all military are supporting this war and that every one of those deaths was important and unneeded. I'd like it you'd stop by and toss in your two cents.

I'm all for defending my country but U.S. did not need to be defended from Iraq.

"And one of the things that he hears from families of the fallen is that they want him to lead the country to complete the mission."

I guess some of the families missed the memo of "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" in May of '03. How many have been killed since that, so called, "accomplishment"?

'aggrieved'...? oh, please, he doesn't give these sacrificed lives a second thought:

People’s interviewer also mentioned that readers had asked if he takes sleep aids. Bush said generally not, but he does occasionally when he travels.

“I must tell you, I’m sleeping a lot better than people would assume,” he said.

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bush needs to protect animal habitat here.....its the enviroment, stupids.....earth first......all ways....

The only thing worse than Bush is whining hand wringing liberals and especially "heroes" from Iraq who never saw an enemy combatant. the average police officer on the south side has seen more combat than one of these sunshine soldiers. In vietnam the American death toll ran to 30-40 per day. that's 11,000 to 12,000 a year. quit whining. If you don't want to fight or get shot at don't join the army.

How many school children shot in chicago since 2003? how many murders have there been? That's okay though because that doesn't fit the loony left's script.

Bush et al are just typical elitist twits which you find in both parties.

Sickening. The man would soil his pants were he in Iraq in the thick of it.

The US has never shown a significant shred of justification for going into Iraq. These soldiers, sons, fathers, daughters, wives have been wasted for George Waterboard Bush's ego and greed while essentially taxing the nation with high costs (realistically over $3T even if the war stops today) and higher oil prices.

The direct costs alone are on the order of $25,000 per taxpayer.

The cost in lives is priceless. The cost for the permanently disabled is a burden to bear by the hour for the rest of their lives.

George Waterboard Bush will be reviled as the worst president in US history.

Posted by: Wix | March 24, 2008 11:43 AM

Hey what's a few thousand more dead bodies, right?

Your lack of compassion for the dead and their families is disgusting.

David J:

I heard this morning that there were 138 American soldiers killed as of "Mission Accomplished" day. That makes 3,862 dead since then.

So if the American people elect John McCain, how long until that number reaches 5,000, 6,000, 10,000??

George Bush has not and will not ever grieve for the fallen soldiers. He is a coward and liar and responsible for each and every life that has been lost. He and his rich oil industry friends have made a lot of money (record breaking profits) while watching our young people go off to Iraq to be murdered and while fleecing the American people at the gas pumps. Iraq did not attack the United States and what this invasion has done to that country and it's people is unforgivable. When the Downing Street memo was released and it was clear that the United States was going to attack Iraq even if they had to lie about "WMD", George W Bush should have been impeached and put on trial for War Crimes. He is a heartless cold blooded killer and needs to be treated like one. WE are a nation without a conscious and a spine. We have set back for almost eight years and allowed a Moron (Bush) and a Monster (Cheney)to control this nation, to break our own laws, and to go unpunished!

he isn't 'grieved' enough.

Our own Senator Durbin and the rest of the Intelligence Committee should be flogged for knowing that the WMD evidence was false and not saying anything about it under vows of secrecy. What about vows to the American people, Senator?

he isn't 'grieved' enough.

Our own Senator Durbin and the rest of the Intelligence Committee should be flogged for knowing that the WMD evidence was false and not saying anything about it under vows of secrecy. What about vows to the American people, Senator?

Anonymous:

Once the Democrats knew they were being lied to they started calling for the end of the war.

It is the Republicans who don't think it is such a big deal (except for Chuck Hagel).

Thank you spin master. Send your daughters over on a front line rotation and then tell me how you grieve. You lied to get us in. How would you lie to keep them out?

Meanwhile, on the 5th anniversary of the war, head cheerleader Dick Cheny went fishing on the yacht of the Sultan of Oman.

Talk about out of touch!!

"Grieved?" "Sorry?" The man's arrogance is topped only by Mr. Cheney's, though his intellect is at the bottom of that rabbit hole in which they all seem to hang out.

It will forever be a mystery why he wasn't and won't be impeached, for the lies and malfeasance and self-dealing, in the same way that it's incomprehensible that anyone could support, much less agree, with the man and tolerate what he's done to this country.

He is the best yet example for revisiting the whole concept of sovereign immunity: if ever there were an indictment waiting for a clerk's file number, it's the one with his name on it.

"BUSH SPEAKS"

SAME BUSH CHANNEL
SAME BUSH "IRAQI OIL LIBERATION"
SAME PUSH PUSH IN THE BUSH OF IRAQI DESERTS.

"MY ADMINISTRATION STILL HEARS THE VOICES"

"DIPLOMACY IS ON THE WAY"
"BODY ARMOR IS ON THE WAY"
"MORE AT&T GIPHONEHOME CALLING CARDS ON THE WAY"

NO LEAVE FOR YOU
"MORE STOP-LOSS"
NO LEAVE FOR YOU

NO "IMMUNITY"
NO "OIL RECONCILIATION"

NO LEAVE FOR YOU!

GODBLESS AMERICA AND MY ADMINISTRATION.

Why are we still in Iraq??? - He should feel guilty of each and everyone of the deaths...it should hurt to the core of his soul. Did anyone see the interview with Cheney showing up there this past week, asked about the killings, he said, "SO" - I don't understand why the billions and billions going to the war or Mr. Bush's pocket, can't be used here! I truly don't understand....My mother has to suffer due to medicare not paying for her health issues now, but we can send BILLIONS to kill people - God Bless America!

This from the draft-dodging coward president who said he 'envied' those fighting in Afghanistan because it's so 'romantic.' The man is a disgrace.

But let's talk for weeks about something a pastor said one time. That's obviously more important and has caused more harm to our military and our country.

When the dems take back the presidency this fall they will show us all the criminal corrpt dealings of the bush admin. Sickens me that 4000 American servicemembers have died because of 1 man's decision.

Bush & Cheny's attitude towards human life can be summed up in the response that Cheney gave Diane Sawyer last week. When she reminded him that the majority of Americans disapproved of the war in Iraq, Cheney gave his cute little smirk and replied "So?".

Gotta love it.

Our Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, AKA The Decider, grieves for the loss of 4K troops.

This clown has driven the U.S. off a cliff and couldn't care less.

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He's grieved, eh?

Well, that should be good enough for everybody, no?

Want to see it continue? and happen again? vote for J.M. 2 P,s in a pod!

Anyone see the quote from W on how he thinks it must be excitin' for the young soldiers to be in a far away land on their 2nd and 3rd tours away from their family. Yes Mr. President, I'm sure that's what they are thinking. Not something like I missed my newborn's birthday again, I can't hold my wife or girlfriend on our anniversary, or looks like I won't be there before my mom/dad goes in for her operation. Yes Mr. President they are probably happy to be away from their family and loved ones. You sir are an incompetent heartless, grade A a#%hole and without any empathy. You only grieve that your friends might not keep their big tax cuts!!

Bush is so grieved that he refuses to show the American people the images of the solders' caskets coming home for the last time. So much for freedom of speech, hey George.

"...but he mourns the loss of every single life, from the very first that was lost in this conflict, to the ones that are lost today"...Was he grieving then when he was waiting for McCain at the White House a couple of weeks back, and was dancing like a total clown and make a utter fool of himself ??? I think that this spokeswoman is even more deluded and stupid than Bush himself, but then again, that is a definition of a follower when the leader is an idiot...

I find it really hard to believe that the families of our fallen soldiers are telling bush to "please complete the mission" when it is so painfully obvious that there has been absolutely no progress in 5 years of fighting. Yeah...i'm sure these people want to see more families suffer the loss of a loved one for no good reason. That statement is proof positive that our president is nothing more that a very polished and demented liar who really doesn't give a damn about our country or it's people

Any talk or expression of sorrow and sympathy for the
4.000 dead U.S. soldiers in Iraq is quite hypocritical. The war's cost in lives destroyed in Iraq is about 50 times as much.

First, we don't count about
35.000 U.S. maimed for life soldiers, and about another 35.000 suffering the Iraq's war Syndrome -people who come back mental wrecks, shoot their wives to death, and all those things we have seen on TV. And not everything is reported by the media, so we have not seen all, and the war is going on and the final numbers will go up.

Then, like in every war, there are two sides. The
dead number of Iraqis is a
conjecture, but 150.000 dead
should be a close estimate.
How about maimed Iraqis, or
those mentally damaged, that
rotten in dilapidated buildings functioning as hospitals without clean water, and 6 hours a day electricity? Do they deserve our pity, or they don't because they are Arabs, and after 9/11 we honestly see them only as mortal enemies whose death is not a big deal -even if they are women and children.

Sure, there is a lot of compassion for the 4.000 U.S. dead soldiers in Iraq and their families. But we should be able to see and feel beyond the headlines.
BBC reported yesterday that only about 25% of Americans
know that the U.S. government had banned reporters access to Andrews Air Force base where coffins of dead U.S. soldiers are unloaded to avoid a public outcry -like
the one caused by Vietnam's War.

Lets not, therefore, wail for the 4.000 dead headlines only; lets wail for the maimed and mentally
twisted veterans, the dead and mentally twisted Iraqis,
and the secrecy of the travesty of this war that sweeps everything -except the headlines- under the rug. Nikos Retsos, retired academic.

Bush has no choice but to plow forward. To reverse anything at this point would first require him to admit going into a Iraq was a horrible blunder on his part and that he had no idea what he was getting into. Like getting a barbed fish hook in your hand, you just keep pushing it through, regardless of the pain, till it comes all the way out.

(1.) Kill, Capture or Surrender Bin Laden.
(2.) End the "Police Action" in Iraq.
(3.) Go after those and their supporters in Afghanistan/Pakistan responsible for 9/11, until they don't exist or they surrender.
(4.)Win the War on Terror, in that order, by changing the minds of those who because of their hopelessness, would kill innocent people or themselves. These people need better leadership (example) of fairness and justice.
I'm willing to give my Life and my Death for my Creator. If it takes another 4,000 or 40,000, 400,000, 4,000,000 or more, I and most Americans will fight and sacrifice for what is right, and vindicate the 4,000 who have gone before. When we get new Leadership in the White House with the support of the people; these things will be accomplished with G'd's Help, what 16 years of Bush & Clinton because of foreign intrigues and political entanglements don't understand and have failed to do. Change we can Believe in, Judgment we can Trust. Obama 08.