Live Thread: Bush Speech to U.N.

www.freerepublic.com | September 12, 2002

[Howlin]

Live discussion and comments about Bush's speech to the U.N. today, and the reaction to it.

[jjm2111]

What's UNESCO?

[Mo1]

Basically they are trashing his accent and pronounciation of words. No real repudiation of his points, just personal attacks that have nothing to do with the problem

Maybe President Bush should have said...

What part of Saddam wants to kill you .. do you not understand

Think the DU's would understand that??

[usconservative]

Thanks, but I have a VCR. LOL! I've just been so busy @ work, getting home around 10pm and having to be back by 7am that I haven't had time to even see the news or know when President Bush is speaking.

I imagine C-Span will replay it sometime tonight. I'm calling the wife @ home now to have her look for it and tape it for me.

Reading through this thread, it appears that President Bush did exactly what I was hoping for: told the UN to either get on board, or they'd become irrelevant. If he told the UN where to "get off" I'd be happy. If he told the UN to get the 'f' out of the USA, I'd be happier! One step at a tme I suppose....

[RoseofTexas]

After reading all the posts I have to say...FATHER IN HEAVEN YOU ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS TODAY...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Thank you for the WISDOM you bestowed on our President today!!

[MaeWest]

God, thank you, thank you, thank you for helping this President, and keeping OwlCore outta the Oval Office!

Yes!!!

[Sabertooth]

Great thread, Howlin.

The President's speech was magnificent. I'm not sure to what it compares. Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, or Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech come to mind, but fall short.

If those speeches were perhaps more poetic, it's because poetry wasn't called for today. This was not a speech whose principle aim was to be memorable or inspiring, though it will be. Today's aim was force immediate, specific and unequivocal action on the part of both the United Nations and Iraq, and to gird America for the consequences either way.

Today's speech was like a legal brief, but a legal brief like artillery, designed to obliterate every wall of resistance before our armor rolls, and to leave the sympathizers with Saddam no platform for complaint when it does. That Iraq will ultimately resist is not in doubt, for in the grip of his megalomania, Saddam Hussein is pathologically unable to embrace any fate other than the fiery phantom of his idol, Nebuchadnezzar, and unable to lead Iraq to any destiny other than ruin.

President Bush has now given the United Nations a choice as a body: relevance or oblivion.

Either way, our armor will roll.

[usconservative]

THANK YOU FOR THAT LINK!!!! WATCHING IT NOW! :-)

[Howlin]

Thank you for doing your duty to God and your country by going over there. Somebody has to. You were swell to volunteer to scout it out!

[antivenom]

http://www.unesco.org/

[antivenom]

HIYA sweetheart!

[Miss Marple]

Actually, if Lott and McCain fail at getting the Senate to move ahead, then the Rats will look bad. If they succeed, then the Rats will have to go on record.

Win, win, and it gives McCain something positive to do. Plus he will get press attention, which Lott won't by himself.

I am not displeased. It looks to me like the President has his ducks in a row.

[Quilla]

Somewhat fitting today:

[usconservative]

Hey stranger! I sure do miss you.... ;-)

[Texas_Jarhead]

the kiddie porn division of the UN

[ClancyJ]

Right - Bush is just covering the basics. Turn the responsibility over to the U.N. to act or we do. He will do something similar to the Congress. Let them cast their vote yes or no and face the American people with it. Let them be the ones to say - no - I want to risk American lives so I can do nothing.

All along - he knows that if they don't move in the direction he wants, he will act alone because he has the authorization already.

[Mo1]

Jim L.idon'tknowhowtospellhisname from MSNBC thinks we won't go in for another 2-3 months

Something tells me .. he is way off on that one

[Crusher138]

Thank you for doing your duty to God and your country by going over there (Democratic Underground). Somebody has to. You were swell to volunteer to scout it out!

You're welcome, but now I have to take a shower...

[CJinVA]

What did President Bush say about an American POW not being returned after the war? I missed that part.

[Mo1]

LOL .. good one

[antivenom]

You hanging at e4? I haven't done that yet...