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(Bush Speech Live Thread) Bush to compare Iraqis to America's founders
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| 12/12/05
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Posted on 12/12/2005 6:09:11 AM PST by Coop
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is using a visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, as a reminder before the Iraqi elections that the path to American democracy was not always easy either.
Pennsylvania also is the home state of a leading Iraq war critic, Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who planned to speak on Bush's heels and repeat his call to bring the troops home from a fight he says has become too violent and out of control...
Iraqis are preparing to vote under tight security to elect a 275-member parliament that will run the country for the next four years. The election will be the first under the new constitution ratified in an October 15 referendum and will complete the steps toward democratization following the ouster of Saddam Hussein's government.
Monday's Iraq speech is Bush's third, part of a campaign to win support for the mission, with most Americans saying in polls that they disapprove of his handling of the war. The speech is scheduled for 11:15 a.m. ET.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush43; elections; foundingfathers; gnfi; iraq; iraqielection; iraqspeech; terrorism
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To: Justanobody
"WooHoo - Kicking a$$ and taking names!"Chuckie should stick to waving rainbow flags , heh heh.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:07:13 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
To: Coop
My favorite line .....
includes an emir (insurgent cell chief) named Khalaf Fanus who was turned in to police forces by his family.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:07:43 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
To: RetiredArmy
Chuckie must think war should be peaceful and quiet
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:08:14 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
To: TomGuy
That's when a President uses the bully pulpit and uses 'political' pressure It's not 1962 anymore. The President cannot force a hostile media to do ANYTHING. Sorry the world doesn't work the way Hollywood taught you it does. I would of thought by now the dozens of out right fraudulent "news" stories published in the last 20 months would of woken old Conservatives up to the reality the Dinosaur Media is NOT the media they grew up with. You cannot FORCE the media to do anything. What you CAN do is go around or over them. Sorry reality does jive with your FEELINGS about it.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:08:25 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Now the Democrat leadership claims that accurately quoting them is "attack politics")
To: cake_crumb
LOL - while the rest of his party wave the white ones!
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:08:33 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
To: Carolinamom
When did the practice begin of having a spokesman for the opposition party respond after a Presidential speech?
Well, you see, the American People are not represented by the man who illegally holds the office of President. Therefore, We need to have Our voice of representation heard every time the illegal one speaks in public.
***end-heavy-sarcasm
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:08:51 AM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
("They did try to hurt me, but they missed because Liberals throw like girls." - Ann Coulter)
To: RetiredArmy
Long haired students went "Clean for Gene"(McCarthy) in 1968.
Today it's "Murkey for Murtha".
To: Coop
Tomorrow evening on The History Channel:
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:09:16 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: RetiredArmy
Oops. Murtha, not Chuckie. They're girlie slapping and clawing each other today to see who can make the biggest a$$ of himself.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:09:41 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
To: Justanobody
includes an emir (insurgent cell chief) named Khalaf Fanus who was turned in to police forces by his family. I read a British publication this morning (maybe the Mirror?) that said he was beaten by an angry crowd and then turned over to authorities. I like that version much better!
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:09:50 AM PST
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: Coop
Pennsylvania also is the home state of a leading Iraq war critic, Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who planned to speak on Bush's heels and repeat his call to bring the troops home from a fight he says has become too violent and out of control... A 'too vioulent' fight which would eventually be taking place in our streets it Mr. Murtha gets his way.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:09:55 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Coop
"Bush to compare Iraqis to America's founders"
whose headline is THAT?
Bush is a fool if this is what he intends to do.....there is NO comparison, not even in the same ball park!
To: TomGuy
IIRC, the opposition response has been status quo for several decades. I think it became routine practice in the 70's or 80's.
However, since January 2001, the rebuttal speech has been given MORE publicity than the President's speech.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:10:26 AM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
("They did try to hurt me, but they missed because Liberals throw like girls." - Ann Coulter)
To: Justanobody
"LOL - while the rest of his party wave the white ones!"To be fair, he's probably just deeply saddened that we're not sticking flowers into gun barrels and setting up gay pride parades in Baghdad....
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:11:18 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
To: MNJohnnie
You cannot FORCE the media to do anything.If the Administration wanted some information publicized today all they need to do is give a deep background on it with the caveat that they sit on it for a week because 'lives are at risk'.
It will be out by the top of the hour.
To: Coop
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:12:42 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
To: Coop; sheltonmac; ValenB4
Bush to compare Iraqis to America's foundersApples and oranges. Of course it won't matter to the masses.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:13:01 AM PST
by
billbears
(Deo Vindice)
To: OXENinFLA
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:13:56 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Message to Democrats .... We do not surrender and run from a fight !!)
The president would argue that, like the Americans who gathered in Philadelphia for the constitutional convention in 1787, Iraqis are showing their resolve to govern themselves.Freedom is not free.
Bush to compare Iraqis to America's founders
I don't see any Iraqi that can measure up to George Washington.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:15:04 AM PST
by
Reagan Man
(Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
To: Coop
The President in is the house
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:15:04 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Message to Democrats .... We do not surrender and run from a fight !!)
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