(re-cap) George W. Bush's Confidence building speech.

[yeahwho]

The edited short version so you can go about your day.

Good Evening Iraq Terrorists Iraq 9/11 Terrorists Terrorists (insurgents) Terrorists 9/11 Iraq Terrorists Iraq Terrorists 9/11 Iraq Terrorists Terrorists (insurgents) Terrorists Afghanistan Terrorists 9/11 Stay The Course! Terrorists (insurgents) Terrorists Iraq Terrorists Good Night

[enree erzweglle]

I was having dinner with my son when GW came on.
The combination of food & GW is not good.
We finished eating quickly and got up to leave.

I walked out first. My son was behind me. I heard the waitstaff laugh & turned around to see one of them high-fiving my kid.

Outside, he told me he flipped off the TV monitors. I raised him right.

[Ali]

The edited short version so you can go about your day.

Good Evening Iraq Terrorists Iraq 9/11 Terrorists Terrorists (insurgents) Terrorists 9/11 Iraq Terrorists Iraq Terrorists 9/11 Iraq Terrorists Terrorists (insurgents) Terrorists Afghanistan Terrorists 9/11 Stay The Course! Terrorists (insurgents) Terrorists Iraq Terrorists Good Night
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Except for the guys in Gitmo

[Nuzzolese]

What the hell why is Iraq responsible for terrorism?! What is this mission we have to complete?! What are we going to win at this as yet infinitely indefinite date of victory in the future? Iraq terror? Why did he keep mentioning Iraq and terror together?

[Nuzzolese]

"If the parents don't step in, the kids'll just grow up to be liberals!"

The line that summed up the philosophy of the crazy drunk guy we partied with last Friday.

[D_Raay]

"We [oui?] fight today," Bush said, "because the terrorists want to attack our cities and kill our citizens, and Iraq is where they are making their stand. We will fight them there, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won."

So, the disaster that Bush has created in Iraq is now the justification for having created it. But who is this universal group of "terrorists" fighting this global war?

Bush made that clear tonight by quoting none other than Osama Bin Laden as saying that "the war is waging in Iraq." But he didn't say that BEFORE Bush launched a war against Iraq! Hey, Ted Koppel, do you guys, like, keep stuff on tape or that sort of thing?

Bush added to his lies tonight, as he does every day in which he maintains silence on key points about which the media will not ask him. He did not say tonight that there will be no permanent US military bases in Iraq. He did not say tonight that the Iraqi people will get to keep their oil. He said he would give no exit date until "the job is done" and the "mission" is "complete," but he did not provide any way for a mortal to measure whether that state of affairs has been reached or not.

Bush said nothing about the rise in terrorist incidents since he launched his war on terror, nothing about the steep decline in affection for the United States around the world. He knows that he has made us less safe, yet he asserted that "My greatest responsibility as President is to protect the American people."

But a good way to reduce the fighting in Iraq and make Americans less hated would be for Americans to take steps to investigate and, if necessary, impeach Bush. The message that would send to the people of Iraq would be far more powerful than any boost in U.S. Army recruitment.

Or, we could all sign up and go kill and die for Bush.

Hmm.

It's a tough choice, I know.

"This 4th of July," Bush said tonight, "I ask you to thank the men and women defending our freedom by flying the flag…or helping the military family down the street."

Why don't you PAY the military family for the work it does, and provide those people with decent health care and education? I'll fly a flag or eat a picnic on one, as I see fit, but it won't be because you lied to a bunch of courageous young people and sent them off to give their lives or their limbs or their sanity for your wealth, ease, and ego, while you mumble lies off a teleprompter about what you're sacrificing.

You want to sacrifice? Take ten minutes and answer Congressman Conyers' letter. Did you know that 128 Congress Members and 560,000 of the rest of us have signed it?

[MC Moot]

The Stats are in....the President addressed the American nation(here's a word count). He had a lot to say, of course.

He's been doing a lot of hard work and a lot of hard thinking.

It's been hard.

It hurts his head like a coke hangover after a texan skulls circle jerk party.

Here are some word counts from the Presidential Address:

"Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists" 33 times
"Free, Freedom" 29 times
"Security" 16 times
"Defend, Protect" 15 times
"Election, Vote, Polls" 10 times
"Mission" 9 times
"Killers, Murderers" 9 times
"New York, September 11th" 7 times
"War" 7 times
"Insurgents" 6 times
"Violence" 6 times
"Democracy, Democratic" 5 times
"Liberty, Liberate" 4 times
"Attack" 4 times
"Dissent" 1 time
"WMD" 0
"Exit Strategy" 0
"Mission Accomplished" 0

See the trend? :mad:

[yeahwho]

See the trend? :mad:

And even after more than a year of watching Bush's war evolve into the expected debacle, after miles of newsprint documenting administration cronyism, lies, self-deception, more lies, incompetence, still more lies — more than half of us decided that another four years of more of the same would be just the thing.

American ideals have certainly been betrayed by the junta, but that could never have happened without the complicity of a majority of Americans. Loathesome as Bush is, he's only a symptom. It mighty be a hokey, liberal kind of thing to say, but American society has a lot to atone for, to Iraqis, and to the not-well-connected youngsters who trusted their leaders enough to enlist.

The NYTimes has a nice Ed/Op piece today by Herbert; LINK (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/opinion/30herbert.html?hp)

The president who displayed his contempt for Iraqi militants two years ago with the taunt "bring 'em on" had to go on television Tuesday night to urge Americans not to abandon support for the war that he foolishly started but can't figure out how to win.

The administration seems to have learned nothing in the past two years. Dick Cheney, who told us the troops would be "greeted as liberators," now assures us that the insurgency is in its last throes. And the president, who never listened to warnings that he was going to war with too few troops, still refuses to acknowledge that there are not enough U.S. forces deployed to pacify Iraq.

Whether one agreed with the launch of this war or not - and I did not - the troops doing the fighting deserve to be guided by leaders in Washington who are at least minimally competent at waging war. That has not been the case, which is why we can expect to remain stuck in this tragic quagmire for the foreseeable future.

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Like the Bumpersticker says,"At least George W. Bush had an exit strategy for Vietnam."

[Funkaloyd]

more than half of us
Half of those that chose to vote. So it's more like 25%