Bush accepteert moslimbewind in Irak.

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Op dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 03:54 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:
Jawel, waarom niet?

Als het volk zo wil dan is dat zo, punt uit.

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Op dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 04:05 schreef Takkesteeg het volgende:

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Hmmm, volgens mij zijn er andere landen met een moslimcultuur te noemen waar dit toch momenteel wat beter gaat...
Het heeft alleen meer tijd nodig en daar zou 'het westen' op een goede manier aan bij kunnen dragen, let wel, goede manier...

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Op dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 03:57 schreef Finchy het volgende:
=dictatuur

No choice.

Uiteindelijk zal Irak weer door een vertrouwde Arabische dictator geregeerd worden.
Zonder uitzondering alle Arabieren/Perzen (misschien kan je wel zeggen moslims) hebben niets met democratie. Bij een poging tot democratie raken ze totaal in de war omdat er geen duidelijk leider is waarna een dictator opstaat.
Daarom is een democratische Palestijnse staat ook uitgesloten.

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President Bush says he doesn't envision a longtime presence of U.S. troops in Iraq similar to post-World War II deployments in Europe and South Korea that continue today.

"I think the Iraqi people want us to leave once we've helped them get on the path of stability and democracy and once we have trained their troops to do their own hard work," Bush said Monday in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press.

Still, Bush said, "It's very difficult for me to predict what forces will exist although I will tell you that Iraq's leadership has made it quite clear that they can manage their own affairs at the appropriate time."

If free and open Iraqi elections lead to the seating of a fundamentalist Islamic government, "I will be disappointed. But democracy is democracy," Bush said. "If that's what the people choose, that's what the people choose."

Bush steered nearly all questions dealing with Iraq to criticism of Democratic rival John Kerry just two weeks before a U.S. election that polls show to be close.

As to reports that Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former top general of U.S. forces in Iraq, had warned nearly a year ago of supply problems in Iraq, Bush said:

"There's a chain of command. When the commanders on the ground say they need more, we respond as quickly as possible," Bush said.

"He was asking about much needed supplies. The Congress had an opportunity to vote on funding to get those supplies in the pipeline. And my opponent voted against that funding," Bush said.

"What he needs to do is address why he voted against the $87 billion," Bush said.

Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, voted against the $87 billion in October 2003, and Congress gave its final approval to the measure in November. A memo written by Sanchez asking for more equipment, according to a story in Monday's Washington Post, came a month later.

Kerry used the Sanchez incident to deliver fresh criticism of the president's Iraq policy.

In his first interview since three debates with Kerry, Bush sat in his cabin on Air Force One, relaxing in shirt sleeves in a leather chair on a flight from Washington to New Jersey. Although Democrats have carried the state in every presidential election since 1988, Bush said, "We have a shot" this year.

Bush said he would not pass judgment on a unit of Army reservists who refused a mission on grounds that it would be too dangerous. The Army announced last week it was investigating up to 19 members of a platoon from a company based in South Carolina after they refused a supply mission.

"That's up to the military. The military will take the appropriate action on both their concerns as well as their actions," Bush said.

Asked whether the defiance reflected larger concerns among U.S. troops in Iraq, Bush said, "I need to know more about that. I understand this is a very rare incident."

Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War but did not go overseas.

The president spent the night in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., and was campaigning across Florida on Tuesday.


Asked whether he thought another overtime election was possible, like the 2000 contest that led to a recount of Florida ballots and a U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) decision in Bush's favor, the president said: "Having gone through one election that didn't end until mid-December, I certainly hope we don't have to go through another.

"And so, therefore we will do everything we can to maximize our vote," he added with a smile.

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Op dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 14:21 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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http://story.news.yahoo.c(...)el_pr/bush_interview

En terecht natuurlijk. Die democratiche utopie was eigenlijk al lachwekkend. Maar goed, dit hadden ze eerder kunnen bedenken en dan hadden ze voor een vriendelijk islamitische regime kunnen gaan in plaats van voor een soort Vietnam.

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Post-war planning non-existent

By WARREN P. STROBEL and JOHN WALCOTT
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, American war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina to review the Bush administration's plans to oust Saddam Hussein and implant democracy in Iraq.

Near the end of his presentation, an Army lieutenant colonel who was giving a briefing showed a slide describing the Pentagon's plans for rebuilding Iraq after the war, known in the planners' parlance as Phase 4-C. He was uncomfortable with his material - and for good reason.

The slide said: "To Be Provided."
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Op dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 14:12 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Verstandige uitspraak van Bush. Zo kan 'ie het land verlaten zonder dat er een goed functionerende democratie is.

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Op dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 14:57 schreef Miss_User het volgende:
Dat is ws Bush zn achterliggende agenda. Maar waarom zou een moslimbewind niet democratisch kunnen zijn? Wat een onzin.