When will Bush apologize to families of Americans dead in Iraq war?
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NEVER. That man is not only arrogant, ignorant, and has absolutely NO humility but he's flat out EVIL.\n\nI agree 100% with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez  that Bush is the DEVIL. It's sad that Americans are so brainwashed and naiive to elect people like him. SAD!\n\nHe could care less about America's sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters so long as the corporations that funded his campaign are making record profits and will pay him MILLIONS in an "advisory" capacity once he's out of office.
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Paul Wolfowitz, who fashioned the phony intellectual underpinnings of this catastrophe, told us that Iraqi oil revenues would cover the cost of reconstruction. He was as wrong about that as the president was about the weapons of mass destruction. (And as wrong as Dick Cheney was last June when he said the insurgency was in its last throes.). Here are the facts: The war so recklessly launched by the amateurs in the Bush White House has already taken scores of thousands of lives, and will ultimately cost the United States $1 trillion to $2 trillion. No one has been held accountable for this. While Mr. Bush's approval ratings are low, the public has been largely indifferent to the profound suffering in Iraq. This is primarily for two reasons: Because most Americans have no immediate personal stake in the war, and because the administration and the news media keep the worst of the suffering at a safe distance from the U.S. population. \nThe killing of American troops is usually kissed off with a paragraph or two in the major papers, and a sentence or two, at best, on national newscasts. \n (Imagine if someone in your office, sitting at a desk across from you, were suddenly blown to bits, splattering you with his or her blood. You wouldn't get over it for the rest of your life. This is what happens to the Americans and other racist crusaders on daily basis in Iraq.) \n The 250,000 of Iraqis who are killed - including babies and children who are shot to death, blown up, or incinerated - remain completely unknown to the American public. So not only is there very little empathy for the suffering of Iraqis, there is virtually no sense among ordinary Americans of a shared responsibility for that suffering. Despite the frequently expressed fantasies expressed by President Bush and some of the leading politicians of both parties, the idea of a U.S. victory in Iraq is an illusion. The nightmarish violence is rising, not receding. Iraq is not being pacified. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a bustling market in Basra over the weekend, killing 27 and wounding scores. On Sunday, 20 people were stopped and pulled from their vehicles on a highway near Baquba and shot to death. \nJohn Burns, writing in yesterday's New York Times, told us: "The death toll in one of the most grisly recent attacks, in the village of Hadid, near the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, rose to 17 on Tuesday when the police delivered nine severed heads to the Baquba morgue in the fruit boxes in which they were found in the village." \nEight other heads had previously been found. \nInstead of beginning to pull our troops out of Iraq, we are sending more in. The permanent Iraqi government, which was supposed to be the answer to everybody's prayers, is a study in haplessness. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's man in Iraq, remains at large. (As does Osama bin Laden, somewhere in Pakistan.) \nAs was the case with Vietnam, the war in Iraq is a fool's errand. There is no clear mission for American troops in Iraq. No one can really say what the dead have died for. And yet the dying continues. \nMilitary commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war "is lost" and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month. Even worse, they report the massacre of Iraqi civilians at Haditha is "just the tip of the iceberg" with overstressed, out-of-control Americans soldiers pushed beyond the breaking point both physically and mentally. "We are in trouble in Iraq," says retired army general Barry McCaffrey. "Our forces can't sustain this pace, and I'm afraid the American people are walking away from this war."\n\nhttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_8790.shtml\n  \n Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered By The Americans: As Many As 250,000\n\nhttp://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe...\n\n Cost of War\n
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The missing line was "That's between me and my son."\n\nI think he answered properly. Bush was being nosy by asking Webb how his son was; he should have known that Webb does not talk about his son in public. Webb got the message across to Bush that he needs to resolve this war in Iraq.\n\nAs far as being "disrespectful" is concerned, that's in the eyes of the beholder. In my opinion, "disrespectful" is going to war with a sovereign nation and causing US and host nation deaths for reasons that turn out to be untruthful. There are no WMDs in Iraq. There is little chance of establishing a democracy in Iraq; besides, why Iraq? Why not Sudan or one of about a half dozen other nations?\n\nTo me Webb shows up as a person who gets his point across.
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You lie to them like we did all the families of the 60,000 killed in Vietnam.\n\nWonder what they told his wife?\n\nJanuary 27, 1973 - The last American soldier to die in combat in Vietnam, Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, is killed.\n\nThe war is illegal because we preempively attacked a sovereign nation based on a pack of lies by George Bush. It is explicitly laid out in the UN Security Council that no nation can attack another preemptively. It violates the US constitution as the president does not have authority to declare war. This is not a war where we were defending ourselves. Osama bin Laden was not in Iraq, no person involved in 9/11 came from Iraq. \n\nWhere is Osama bin Laden by the way? He isn't in Iraq!
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NO\n\nWE SHOULD HAVE NOT BEEN IN IRAQ,\n\nBUSH LIED..\nLET HIM BE CHARGED.\n\nTHEY SHOULD HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THESE DEATHS.
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If the USA keeps making themselves a target, than yes, certainly.\n\nConsider:  Bush himself estimates 30,000 Iraqis slaughtered in his war.  That is considered a conservative estimate by most, but let's say it is true.\n\nEach of those people killed had family members:  fathers, sons, mothers, daughters - all who will grow up hating America, and wanting vengeance - wanting to create their own 9/11.\n\nThat's not even considering our other policies in the world that make people hate us.  As we speak, the Bush administration is creating the next generation of terrorists in the world.\n\nI hope I am wrong.  But it seems like terrorism in the world will only increase, and the "war on terror" will never end.
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Yes. Bush should apologize to the entire world and he should step down
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Republicans...be sorry????\n\nNot until the end of days.
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1.  I'm sick of the Bush administration violating laws because they think that they are above them.\n\n2.  I still am saddened about the two american soldiers, but I do not want to be reminded of their horrible deaths every day.  And I'm sure their families do not want to turn on the TV and have to hear about them being tortured to death.  \n\n3.  I'm angry that our anger has NO influence on what the administration does or anything else for that matter.  \n\n4.  Yes.
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First:   The president is in no way responsible for the death of soldiers in war.  People die in war.  If anything we should be grateful that so few have died.  Over 400 people died every day in vietnam and even more died per day in WWII.\n\nNext:  The reasons for going into Iraq had everything to do with our national security and nothing to do with oil. If you have proof that we have comandeered any oil wells than please, reveal your sources to the world.  You won't find it by the way, because we do not have possession of any Iraqi oil wells.  They are controlled by Iraqi oil companies owned and run by Iraqi citizens.  \n\nTrue we did not find the weapons of mass destruction which bothe British and US intelligence concluded were in Iraq, but we do know that Sadaam had them 15 years ago and we know (According to Bill Clinton anyway) that they had them in 1999. We also know that Sadaam moved them around a lot to evade U.N. inspectors and refused to allow them into the country when they were getting too close.  Do you really think that they just disappeared between 1999 and 2003?  I don't think so.
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Restoring the thousands of military and civilian dead and maimed to their families in the US, and the Allied countries would be a start.\n  \nAs the Congress pointed out during the Clinton era lying to the American people is not a mistake. GWB was deceitful in running for office as a fiscal conservative, and has lied to us about what he knew and when he knew it in the prelude to Katrina.\n  \nThe British memos have confirmed the allegations of Clarke, Wilson, et al that a case for war with Iraq had to be made at any cost.  So far that cost is the bankrupting of the country, and the death of about 2300 Americans, 207 Allied forces, the maiming of thousands more.\n  \nI'm tired of hearing "He's made some mistakes." "Mistakes" are made adding a column of figures and mispronouncing nucLEar. GWB's errors are monumental blunders, and reckless judgment lapses. \n\nHe can't rectify his "mistakes"
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well he has failed all the issues that have come his way in this country.i don't believe the fight against terrorism was in Iraq.he created this war and is solely responsible for it.this why i feel he should not be the president.he caused a lot of American people the loss of loved ones ,and lets not forget the over 100,000 civilian people in Iraq including thousand of innocent women and children.he should be tried for war crimes.i feel sorry for those innocent civilians who live in fear as they do in Iraq.this war is not their fault.
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wrong as wrong can be, every death that has happened over there since the day of our invasion, has to blamed on bush.  he should be tried as a war crimminal in iraq.
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George Bush should have the blame because if it weren't for his illegal and idiotic war that IS NOT for freedom those marines would not have been there to kill the innocent.\n\nBush should be put on trial for those murders just the same as they are trying Saddam Hussain for the same reason.
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U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 2480 \nU.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 18254 \n\nArticles of Impeachment\n\nof\n\nPresident George W. Bush\n\nand\n\nVice President Richard B. Cheney,\nSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice,\nSecretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and\nAttorney General Alberto Gonzales\n\nThe President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\nPresident George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:\n\n1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the  rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.\n\n2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.\n\n3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable. \n\n4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.\n\n5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.\n\n6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.\n\n7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.\n\n8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and econom
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655,000 dead Iraq, 3000 Americans dead, many, many more wounded and deformed for the rest of their lives on both sides. All for a war based on George Bush's lies. The American people ought to hold him accountable for his actions. Not to mention torture, secret prisons, not upholding the constitution, a paper that he swore to uphold when he was first appointed to office. He should be impeached and then turned over to the international court in the Hague for trial as  a war criminal. Do not forget that Cheney, and Rumsfield should go right along with him.
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I agree with your assesment.\n\nIf Bush knowingly lied to the American people, and approved of high civilian casualties.....then he should be impeached and charged with war crimes.