Not a peep... as if ANWR and Iraq have nothing in common...
lame...
It was a VETERANS DAY SPEECH. He worked the criticism of the democrats into discussion of the sacrifice of our troops in war. ANWR would have been inappropriate for the setting.
Some were worried that attacking the dems would have been inappropriate, but Bush (speech writers) found a way to do it tastefully and with full appreciation of the solemnity of the day.