THEY CALL HIM, FLIPPER

Some call ‘W’ Flipper, I call him what he is - a liar

Second Presidential Debate-Washington University, St. Louis, Mo 10/8/04

BUSH: I remember sitting in the White House looking at those generals, saying, "Do you have what you need in this war? Do you have what it takes?"
I remember going down to the basement of the White House the day we committed our troops as last resort, looking at Tommy Franks and the generals on the ground, asking them, "Do we have the right plan with the right troop level?"
And they looked me in the eye and said, "Yes, sir, Mr. President." Of course, I listen to our generals. That's what a president does. A president sets the strategy and relies upon good military people to execute that strategy.

Dubya on Friday, 8/12/05 while ‘dressing down' Army Gen. George W. Casey and Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who dared to say that troop strength in Iraq could be lowered by 30,000.

"The decision finally will be made by me — upon the recommendation of Gen. Casey, through [Defense] Secretary [Donald H.] Rumsfeld, to me," – George Flipper Bush

Lt. General Vines, by the way, is the top ground commander in Iraq and General Casey is the highest-ranking military commander in Iraq. Sure Flipper, when everyone was watching, it was ‘up to the generals’; now, it’s up to you .

George Flipper Bush-when he was looking for votes and wanted to criticize the Clinton administration on Kosovo.

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."

"I think it's also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn."

George Flipper Bush now;

"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."

Bush also said this a that same debate in St. Louis;

“My opponent says he has a plan; it sounds familiar, because it's called the Bush plan. We're going to train troops, and we are. We'll have 125,000 trained by the end of December. We're spending about $7 billion”.

Seven months later…
“By late last month, American commanders said, only 3 of the 107 military and paramilitary battalions had achieved that standard’.

The ‘standard’ is, “able to plan, execute and sustain independent counterinsurgency operations”.

Bush knew he was lying about the ‘125,000 trained’ Iraqi troops and he failed to mention that those already trained would need to have their hands held in combating the insurgency.

I heard that word “Flipper’ coming from a lot of Bush sheep-boys during the 2004 election. I wonder why I don’t hear it too often anymore..