Bush In Al Anbar: Some Troops Could Be Sent Home Soon As Success Continues
President Bush, after hearing from top U.S. and Iraqi leaders, said Monday that some U.S. troops could be sent home if security conditions across Iraq continue to improve as they have in this former hotbed of Sunni insurgency.
Bush spoke after hearing from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commanderr in Iraq, and U.S. ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker, who are testifying to Congress next week assessing the president’s troop buildup.
“Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker tell me if the kind of success we’re now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces,” Bush said.
Bush stood in front of two Humvees near a dusty tarmac of this desert outpost in western Iraq, about 120 miles west of Baghdad, to share his latest views about the war. He urged Congress to wait until they hear testimony from Crocker and Petraeus and see a White House progress report due by Sept. 15 before judging the result of his decision to send an extra 30,000 troops to Iraq.
“I urge members of both parties in Congress to listen to what they have to say,” he said. “We shouldn’t jump to conclusions until the general and the ambassador report.”
Bush met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top government officials from Baghdad. He urged the government to respond to progress in Anbar where violence has abated after Sunni tribal leaders and former insurgents teamed up with U.S. troops to hunt down al-Qaida and other extremists.
He also met with Sunni tribal sheiks and members of Anbar’s governing body.
“I’m going to reassure them that America does not abandon our friends,” he said.
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I appreciate him visiting and respect his determination and support him greatly in this venture to establish FREEDOM in the belly of the beast!
God Bless America & her people, Our President and the Iraqi People for fighting back for their country against tyranny!
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:18 amWanna make some wagers on how this’ll be spun by are ‘objective’ msm?
I say good for President Bush, this will be a morale booster for sure. 
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:22 amSounds good to me.
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:23 amHoo-ah to the CIC. The troops are pumped. A note to Maliki: Gee I thought you had “other friends”. Where are they exactly. Pres Bush is in your country and has done all in his power to help Iraq? And your other friends have done what exactly? Oh yeah…nadda….Get your head out of your
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:26 amchai Maliki.
One comment that I heard on MSLSD was a snide reference to GW’s “we won’t abandon our friends”. The dweeb reporter made the incorrect inaccurate statement that we had abandoned our friends in Afghanistan in the 80’s. And the GW reference was somehow related to that non-fact. Of course the idiot never mentioned that we supplied the mujhadeen with arms, ammunition and SAM’s to help them win their battle against the USSR…for ten years!!!
That’s what one gets with a Zinn view of history…Not the facts…but bullshit…
In any event the LMSM is spinning their asses off…and still think that there is a civil war going on in Iraq.
Of course they have yet to figure out that it was AQI’s game plan to precipitate such a war by blowing up Shia holy sites. Which as “Team Infidel” is aware, didn’t work.
It’s hard to be a LMSM spinmeister these days. The Internet, Pat Dollard, Michael Yon, Beitbart, Hot Air, Matt Sanchez and talk radio, make it impossible to spin their lies without being called out on it.
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September 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pmLook at those real Generals enjoying a CIC who knows how to render a genuine hand salute.
Imagine the military loathing Hildebeast attempting that.
Pray for our dear country.
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