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Bush Fires Back Against Iraq War Critics
AP via Fox News ^ | November 12, 2005 | By Liza Porteus

Posted on 11/12/2005 5:01:13 AM PST by MNJohnnie

President Bush on Friday shot back at critics claiming his administration misconstrued or lied about pre-war intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, saying "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."

"The stakes in the global War on Terror are too high and the national interest is too important for the politicians to throw out false charges," Bush said. "These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will."

Bush also reiterated the need to defeat extremists seeking to destroy America and other modern governments, saying the "murderous ideology of Islamic radicals" is the great threat of the 21st century.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; iraq; oif; veteransday; veteransdayspeech; war
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1 posted on 11/12/2005 5:01:13 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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To: MNJohnnie

Should read: "Fires back at Liberal Liars"


2 posted on 11/12/2005 5:08:59 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6
Should read: "Fires back at Liberal Liars"

Note to AP, fire existing Headline Writers, hire Fenris6 as replacement. :-)

3 posted on 11/12/2005 5:10:45 AM PST by MNJohnnie (I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!.......Water Buckets UP!)
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To: MNJohnnie; All
5 minutes of  an audio link from the speech that includes the parts which have the dems panties in a wad. It's the best part of the speech.  the Bush Smackdown in WAV format
Right click and 'save as' to save to your hard drive.

4 posted on 11/12/2005 5:11:23 AM PST by backhoe (No Society is more than Two Meals away from a Revolution...)
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To: MNJohnnie

For those of you with little time to decipher the MSM propaganda, Instapundit has a very good internet roundup:

http://instapundit.com/archives/026792.php

And thank you Bush. Wish you had done it much sooner.


5 posted on 11/12/2005 5:11:23 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: MNJohnnie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520038/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468763/posts


6 posted on 11/12/2005 5:13:32 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Direct link to CSPAN RealPlayer version of Bush's Veterans Day Speech

Right click on the above link and 'save as' to your hard drive.

File is about 50 meg, so you probably should be on highspeed cable.

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter111105_bush.rm

===

Shortened version
5 minutes (2.2 meg) of audio of the Bush Smackdown in WAV format

Right click and 'save as' to save to your hard drive.
7 posted on 11/12/2005 5:14:28 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: MNJohnnie

It took him long enough. Now he has to keep at it. Every time they lie ,hit again , only harder.


8 posted on 11/12/2005 5:16:13 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: MNJohnnie

Time for a little revision (one word added) of the famous poem:

"Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye Democrats break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields"


9 posted on 11/12/2005 5:17:12 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet
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To: sgtbono2002

Bill Sammon said this in today's Washington Times:

White House aides said the presidential push-back against Democratic criticism will continue well beyond Veterans Day. Mr. Bush himself left little doubt that he is fed up with being accused of cooking the intelligence books.


10 posted on 11/12/2005 5:18:19 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: backhoe

Thanx for that excerpt


11 posted on 11/12/2005 5:23:54 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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12 posted on 11/12/2005 5:25:16 AM PST by backhoe
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To: Peach
Ellen 'ranting' Ratner was on Fox&Friends this morning. She was 'outraged that Bush would use Veteran's Day to give that speech.'

I thought, no, 'Rantner', you are outraged that Bush is still in the White House, that he is still President.

'Rantner' is good at memorizing the daily talkingpoints and spewing them back, even when they are senseless ramblings.

Look for more lib/Dem [talkingpoint:] complaint/outrage of Bush attacking the Dems in the Veteran's Day speech.
13 posted on 11/12/2005 5:28:26 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

Some how, it's become acceptable for the Democrats to lie every day. But unacceptable for the president to defend himself on any given day.

The biggest favor the president could give the troops yesterday was to defend their mission against the viscious lies told by the left.


14 posted on 11/12/2005 5:30:25 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Every time a liberal opens his mouth, another soldier dies, another Iraqi father, mother, or baby dies.


15 posted on 11/12/2005 5:32:27 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Peach

Glad to hear this. I want it heard everyday. It will take time to undue their propaganda, and that only occurs by attacking back with the same points until it overcomes the propaganda in people's minds.


16 posted on 11/12/2005 5:36:37 AM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: Soul Seeker

I agree. 100%.


17 posted on 11/12/2005 5:37:25 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Finally! Bush has let the school yard bully "beat him up" way too long.


18 posted on 11/12/2005 5:41:06 AM PST by Redgirl (I don't do hyphens.)
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To: Peach
The biggest favor the president could give the troops yesterday was to defend their mission against the viscious lies told by the left.

That is fine, except that it is 'preaching to the choir.' That speech should have been made a primetime speech and Team Bush should have used the bully pulpit to make sure most networks carried it. But they didn't.

The speech was only broadcast on the cable news (and some radio). Cable news, at the very highest numbers, only attracts 4-7 million viewership out of nearly 300 million population.

Bush gives these great, inspirational, rousing speeches to military crowds, but the general public misses them, because the general public don't follow the news as closely as many of us on FR do.

As good as the speech was, all most of the public know of it are the selectively filtered sound bytes that the MSM used.

This is just another example of the lack of effective PR. Team Bush have the message; they just don't seem to have any concept of how to get the message out.
19 posted on 11/12/2005 5:51:11 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

I agree that the White House could use a new PR firm. We on FR do a better job defending the administration than the administration does. It does not help that Congressmen on our side of the aisle do very little to support the administration.

I was encouraged to read Bill Sammon today who said this was the start of a counter-offensive by the White House.


20 posted on 11/12/2005 5:54:18 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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