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| Bush brushes aside Republican dissent |
| 2007-07-12 |
| President George W Bush on Tuesday brushed aside the criticism of fellow Republicans over Iraq and demanded the US Congress allow his troop build up more time to work. Bush ruled out an immediate change in strategy, even though prominent Republican lawmakers like Indiana Sen Richard Lugar have broken ranks and called for him to shift course on Iraq. Defiant in the face of a frustrated American public and Congress, Bush said the 28,000 additional troops he ordered into Iraq have not been in place long enough to gauge results because the final wave arrived only last month. The president defended his policy before the release as early as on Thursday of an interim report expected to show mixed progress by the Iraqi government in meeting US security and political benchmarks. The report, due by Sunday, is bound to fuel further debate about the war. “We just started,” Bush told a business group in Cleveland. He asked Congress to wait for a report due in September from Gen. David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, about the results of the troop increase. “I believe Congress ought to wait for Gen. Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he’s putting in place before they make any decisions,” he said. “That’s what the American people expect. They expect for military people to come back and tell us how the military operations are going,” Bush said. Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said impatience for a shift in policy continued to grow and that by September there could be enough support among Democrats and disaffected Republicans to pass a withdrawal timetable. “The tide has turned,” Snowe said. In a sign of rising Republican pressure on Bush, Virginia Sen. John Warner, another Republican skeptical of Bush’s policy, told reporters he was working on a proposal about Iraq with Lugar that is in the “formative stages.” He declined to give specifics. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Some of the "fellow Republicans" are beginning to sound like dhimmicrats. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-12 18:04 |
| #11 Funny concept, that "fellow Republicans". |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-07-12 13:17 |
| #10 I didn't know. If I still watched American television, I'd be upset. My TV has been a monitor for my DVD player since November of last year, when I cancelled my cable. You don't get any reception up here in the mountains, anyways. They hooked a digital receiver to the big monitor up here at work, and the only thing it got was PBS. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2007-07-12 12:01 |
| #9 Good. Tell those wimps to shut up. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-07-12 11:02 |
| #8 not 2004 but more like 1998 when the govt awarded the liscense for the new tv standards.... |
| Posted by: Bob Ulorong8519 2007-07-12 09:37 |
| #7 It's not TV, it's not HDTV, it is PropagandaTV! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-07-12 09:23 |
| #6 And yes, it's gonna come as a big shock to a lot of folks. But don't worry, the government is here to help:... There is no reason for it to be a big shock, the coming switch has been known about since 2004. In fact, the switch was originally scheduled for this year, but was pushed out to 2009. Anyone that isn't aware of this has been living in a cave. |
| Posted by: Natural Law 2007-07-12 09:11 |
| #5 The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a part of the Department of Commerce, can provide up to two coupons per household worth $40 each toward the purchase of digital-to-analog set-top converter boxes for analog TVs. The "We can't stop making more business for China" program. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-07-12 08:09 |
| #4 Interesting how at this time in B J Clinton's administration everyone was wondering what he was thinking about his Legacy in History and no one is wondering about Bush's. Or Congress's. Perhaps they should. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-07-12 07:50 |
| #3 ..going to be really popular next year when regular TV broadcasts cease and only HD TV's will work over the air. It's February 2009 and it's digital, not HD TV. As per the warning on new televisions: This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009, to receive over-the-air-broadcasts with an antenna because of the NationÂ’s transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. Anyone hooked to a cable television system or satellite won't notice any difference, it only effects over-the-air broadcasts. High definition is digital, but digital is not always high def. And yes, it's gonna come as a big shock to a lot of folks. But don't worry, the government is here to help: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a part of the Department of Commerce, can provide up to two coupons per household worth $40 each toward the purchase of digital-to-analog set-top converter boxes for analog TVs. |
| Posted by: Steve 2007-07-12 07:34 |
| #2 Yeah, well. Keeping a dumb populace is par for the course for thee people. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-07-12 00:54 |
| #1 Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine is going to be really popular next year when regular TV broadcasts cease and only HD TV's will work over the air. One of her favorite pet projects! This should ruin civil defense warnings to the mass populace too! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-12 00:28 |