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Prison Planet)-During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”
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Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’ watch it
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BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]
BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
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Originally posted by Agit8dChop
...a very abrupt turn of face.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
To "stay the course" means "continue the effort", "see the mission through," "continue the march" and many other figures of speech.
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That's not too hard to understand, is it?
“Our commission believes that there are alternatives between the stated alternatives, the ones that are out there in the political debate, of stay the course and cut and run,”
Baker hints at change in Iraq policy
WASHINGTON James Baker, the Republican co-chairman of a bipartisan panel that is reassessing Iraq strategy for President George W. Bush, said he expected the panel to depart from Bush's repeated calls to "stay the course,"
Baker Panel Preparing Iraq Alternatives
Co-chairman of a bipartisan commission studying what to do next in the wartorn country, Baker said his panel is preparing to recommend that President Bush consider options other than his "stay-the-course" strategy in Iraq.
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - James Baker, a former U.S. secretary of state and close political associate of the Bush family, said on Sunday there are alternatives in Iraq for the United States other than the "stay-the-course" policy of President George W. Bush's administration.
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Your right,
They needed an abrupt change, because the US would not of been able to handle another coming month of violence.
this is what, the deadliest month ?
Im not saying there current assement is admitting defeat,
just that they should of realised, from the begining there method was going to fail.
Its a pitty its taken them this long, after this many deaths to finally conceed,
'ok, our plan isnt getting where we want'
Its not the USA's fault, its clearly the iraqi's fault.
But they should never of been given this situation to maniuplate in the first place.
Yes, including the month in which most Americans have been killed.