It sure is hard to feel sorry for a rich boy who got to go to Yale with bad grades, be in the armed forces but not have to show up, make a lot of money of his own by dumping his own bad stock before it tanked for the little guy, get to buy a Major League Baseball team with the ill-gotten capital gains, and become president of the USA even though he loses the election. But, golly gee, Dubya is starting to be such an underdog that he might just morph into a lovable loser. NAH!
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- President Bush ended two days of meetings with foreign leaders today without winning more international troops or funds for Iraq and with a top aide saying it could take months to achieve a new U.N. resolution backing the U.S. occupation.
Bush's failure to win a promise of fresh soldiers in meetings with the leaders of India and Pakistan -- aides said the president did not even ask -- increased the difficulty the United States will have in assembling another division of foreign troops in Iraq, which senior Pentagon officials say is the minimum needed to relieve overstretched U.S. forces.
In testimony on Capitol Hill today, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said, 'We're not going to get a lot of international troops with or without a U.N. resolution. I think somewhere between zero and 10,000 or 15,000 is probably the ballpark.'
Did somebody say 'ballpark'? Down Dubya, down; you sold the team and you really do have to begin finishing what you start--one of these days.
