Posted on 05/24/2004 11:31:40 AM PDT by dead
Thanks for proving my point...I said earlier that the press and our own anti-war loonies wouldn't wait for his speech before spouting their pathetic talking points.
This thread seems to be filled with "Im a Bush supporter BUT..." - Moby types. I think this will be a turning point in the election, and possibly world history.
According to Shepard Smith on "Studio B", President Bush didn't ask the networks to carry his speech. Shep said that he's been getting emails from angry viewers saying that media bias is why the networks aren't carrying the speech. Shep just laughed it off and said that the big networks wouldn't be showing the President because of ratings, not bias.
I can't stand Shepard Smith. Just another one of Fox's liberal mouthpieces.
Oh, well...I guess the President has lost the support of those who never did support him and never will.
I agree with your take on tonight, but with a minor difference. I believe the turning point was when President Bush sent us into Iraq; against the combined objection by our so-called European allies, the U.N., the left and our own so-called conservative defeatists. I believe tonight will simply be a defining point.
Your reading comprehension is on the level of your limited writing content. I didn't post take the troops out, I wrote put more troops in to win the war. That's not anti-war. It's anti-losing war.
The UN is more responsible for the state of affairs in Iraq presently than anyone, IMO. Had they marshalled the power they possessed with respect to Iraq and WMD, etc. way back when they should have, we would never be there.
President Bush did the world a huge favor in exposing the UN as the flaccid world body organ it is.
Not sure if they're back on board, haven't read anything really expounding on that, but if they are I'm more than a little sick to my stomach about it.
You mean that now the actual invasion is over and we're already adding more peacekeeping troops. Sorry snooks, you're way behind the times.
That is SO disgraceful.
Tonite's speech was worth the price of admission...I'm very pleased with both what Dubyuh had to say and how he said it.
FReegards...MUD
Thanks...MUD
So, in a nutshell these are his five steps:
There are five steps in our plan to help Iraq achieve democracy and freedom:
The first of these steps will occur next month, when our coalition will transfer full sovereignty to a government of Iraqi citizens who will prepare the way for national elections.(June 30th)
The second step in the plan for Iraqi democracy is to help establish the stability and security that democracy requires.
The third step in the plan for Iraqi democracy is to continue rebuilding that nation's infrastructure so that a free Iraq can quickly gain economic independence and a better quality of life.
The fourth step in our plan is to enlist additional international support for Iraq's transition.
The fifth, and most important step is free national elections, to be held no later than next January.
The above was taken directly from the translation of the speech. I wasn't able to watch him so I read the transcript.
He missed so many golden opportunities to ELABORATE on SUCCESSES that they've already had with these five steps that I feel it was a bomb of a speech.
#6 Agree completely!
The real story is the media blackout.
The same media that airs the prison photos night after night censors the President of the United States, and nobody seems to notice or care.
It doesn't MATTER what he said, since pretty much nobody heard it and it won't be reported in the mainstream press.
Doesn't the President have the power to preempt the networks? I remember reagan had televised addresses that preempted the networks, on more than one occasion.
Or is this part of the "new tone," and the kindler, gentler approach to war?
P.S. The part about tearing down the prison made me want to puke.
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