Bush Changing the Course?

Daisy · Oct 24, 2006

This is from an editorial in the Washionton Post:

Analysis

Bush's New Tack Steers Clear of 'Stay the Course'

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; Page A01

President Bush and his aides are annoyed that people keep misinterpreting his Iraq policy as "stay the course." A complete distortion, they say. "That is not a stay-the-course policy," White House press secretary Tony Snow declared yesterday.

Where would anyone have gotten that idea? Well, maybe from Bush.

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But the White House is cutting and running from "stay the course." A phrase meant to connote steely resolve instead has become a symbol for being out of touch and rigid in the face of a war that seems to grow worse by the week, Republican strategists say. Democrats have now turned "stay the course" into an attack line in campaign commercials, and the Bush team is busy explaining that "stay the course" does not actually mean stay the course.

Instead, they have been emphasizing in recent weeks how adaptable the president's Iraq policy actually is. Bush remains steadfast about remaining in Iraq, they say, but constantly shifts tactics and methods in response to an adjusting enemy. "What you have is not 'stay the course' but in fact a study in constant motion by the administration," Snow said yesterday.

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Source: Washington Post (linkie)
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Is this like the ever-changing reason we went to war in Iraq? WMDs, in cahoots with al Qaeda, Kurds killed 20 years before, evil dictator, liberation, terrorists...

genesis 12-15 · Oct 24, 2006

I think the change is too little, too late. I'm old enough to remember when we won wars, at a very heavy price. It started in Viet Nam, with those "protective enclaves" of military bases. Now it is wage war, but don't hurt anyone. All war is evil, but once we're in one, why negotiate? Unconditional surrender seemed like a good idea at the end of WW-II.

It's tough. How does a Christian support war, when all war is evil. It represents the failure of humankind to seek God first. But not everyone seeks God.

What's the answer?

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