Reader comments: Bush agrees to discuss Iraq timetable

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California Man | 6:34 a.m. July 19, 2008
Mr. Hunt

Pres. Bush has always said that he would do what his commanders on the ground felt was right and that an "artificial" time table with no basis for ground conditions was wrong. You and much of the associated press just can't see the good in this man that has fought so ferouciously (sp?) to protect our freedom and soveirnty (sp?).
Anonymous | 10:58 a.m. July 19, 2008
I fully agree
Earl | 12:00 p.m. July 19, 2008
President Bush has always said that he would do what his commanders on the ground felt was right...unless he disagreed with them, and then he would fire them. Now that he has a compliant commander who appears to have political ambitions beyond the military and who knows how to play the game, Bush can make vague and broad statements meaning nothing in order to make political points for the upcoming elections. In other words, business as usual.
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okay | 12:06 p.m. July 19, 2008
so when?
Talking points v, truth | 2:57 p.m. July 19, 2008
If you read you discover Bush didn't listen to his military. They wanted more troops to begin with. Not having enough troops let us loose control in Iraq after we defeated the Iraqi army. Loosing civil control meant a costly civil war.
Brother Chuck Schroeder | 6:21 p.m. July 19, 2008
Dear President Bush, is it just business as usual?, you got my vote 2 times to. It's true that the United States had become a nation of whiners that won't let Congress run wild with your monies, do what they want, take special interest monies and PAC monies, pad their deep pockets, stuff them as well, create government waste, and a lot of PORK spending, don't really care who put them in Office and ignore those voters, can't give seniors a proper health care system, could care less about the disabled, and also all Veteran's, refuse to help lower gas prices, dream up phony program's that won't work when the heat is on them with TV cameras on, and a host of other social ill's as well, than wonder who will constantly complain about the state of the economy and that the country is not only still facing a mental recession but a real economic problems that'll be here for years to come. But remember folks, "if you re-elect me I will address the issues perhaps in next the Congress when it starts again, but I am just 1 vote also." Time to end their lies in 2008.

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President Bush shakes hands with members of the U.S. military prior to boarding Air Force One at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday. (Evan Vucci, Associated Press)
Evan Vucci, Associated Press
President Bush shakes hands with members of the U.S. military prior to boarding Air Force One at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday.