Bush Clan Doing U-turns?

Policy Successes -- or U-Turns

Views Differ on Bush Moves on Iran, N. Korea, Mideast

By Karen DeYoung and Glenn Kessler

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, March 11, 2007

If all goes according to plan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sit down next month with the foreign ministers of Iran and North Korea -- two "axis of evil" nations that the Bush administration has long shunned. And after criticizing her predecessors for pointless diplomatic shuttling in the Middle East, Rice now makes near-monthly negotiating trips there.

Administration officials insist that what appears to be a sudden turn toward diplomacy is rather the fruit of six years of careful and deliberate policymaking. But outside experts, and even some insiders, say that the initiatives have less to do with reaping rewards than with reversing course after years of policy stagnation and failure.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contends that apparent turnarounds in administration policy abroad are the result of patient work over the past six years. Others see a response to the failure of previous policies.

"What has changed?" asked one former high-level Bush administration official. "That we finally like these people? That we finally have them where we want them? Or gee, we're at 30 percent [public approval] and we've only got 20 months to go?

   Patient work over the past six years? Miss Rice must be into the Bush basket of drugs again. If you weren't even speaking to the " axis of evil " then how can you say you've gotten to this point by working on it?

   This would still be the Bush Crime Family refusing to face reality and admit that they were wrong about not needing to use diplomatic means to solve some of the mid east problems which have occurred mostly over the past six years under Bush.

 

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Bush Is A Liar When Troop Escalation Numbers

    So Bush lied to us once again ( surprised ? ) this time about his troop escalation manpower numbers.

ABC News:

President Bush's troop buildup in Baghdad apparently will be bigger and more costly and perhaps last longer than it seemed when he unveiled the plan in January as the centerpiece of a new Iraq strategy.

U.S. officials say it's too early to tell whether the troop reinforcements will succeed in containing the sectarian and insurgent violence, but it looks as though the Pentagon is preparing for an expanded commitment assuming that by summer there are solid signs that the extra effort is yielding significant results.

The Bush plan called for sending 21,500 extra U.S. combat troops to Iraq mainly to Baghdad with the last of five brigades arriving by June. The estimated price tag was $5.6 billion. Officials have refused to say exactly how long it would last, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates had suggested that it could be over by fall.

In recent days a different picture has  emerged.                                                                                       

Jeffrey Feldman calls it President Bush's new math

 

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