Incompetent-in-charge on Iraq:
"But we will stay the course. We will do what is right. We will make sure that a free Iraq emerges,..." Charlotte, NC 04/05/2004
"It doesn't make any sense to have a timetable. You know, if you give a timetable, you're -- you're conceding too much to the enemy" White House, 06/24/2005 (joint press conference with then-Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari)
"If our military leaders tell me we need more troops, I will send them.... ...These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders -- not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington." Annapolis, MD, 11/30/2005
"We will not leave until this work is done." nationally televised address to the nation on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 09/11/2006
"...there's got to be a specific mission that can be accomplished with the addition of more troops before I agree on that strategy." a press conference, a few weeks before unveiling a new Iraq strategy, 12/20/2006
"It is clear that we need to change our strategy in Iraq" 01/10/2007
Nothing changes. Everything stays the same.
"It doesn't make any sense to have a timetable. You know, if you give a timetable, you're -- you're conceding too much to the enemy" White House, 06/24/2005 (joint press conference with then-Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari)
"If our military leaders tell me we need more troops, I will send them.... ...These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders -- not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington." Annapolis, MD, 11/30/2005
"We will not leave until this work is done." nationally televised address to the nation on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 09/11/2006
"...there's got to be a specific mission that can be accomplished with the addition of more troops before I agree on that strategy." a press conference, a few weeks before unveiling a new Iraq strategy, 12/20/2006
"It is clear that we need to change our strategy in Iraq" 01/10/2007
Nothing changes. Everything stays the same.