LIVE THREAD: Bush's Speech on Iraq (8:00 P.M. EDT)

www.freerepublic.com | May 21, 2004

[Right_in_Virginia]

Howlin, Bush is going to make news tonight

Isn't the "new" news going to be the demolition of the "torture chamber"?

[Petronski]

Hey, I'm supposed to be the pessimist. LOL

[CWOJackson]

Oh my...it looks like the unappeasable have gotten quite a jump on the President's speech.

[Peach]

Maybe more terrorists and we're killing them every day instead of letting them plan more terror and travel here where they would face unarmed citizens instead of our well armed, trained soldiers.

[Pukin Dog]

No.

[Howlin]

I think you're right about that.

[glock rocks]

For those interested in the color code of Shep's Bracelets..

Gosh, I must have missed it. What color is he wearing?

[CWOJackson]

As Right In Virginia pointed out to me, I guess this thread already has "true conservatives" on it.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks.

[The Wizard]

GWB will win in a big way, you betcha

[A Citizen Reporter]

Yeah, but for that you have to have a computer with an internet connection. Does anyone have any stats on the percentage of population without access to both cable news and the internet?

[cyncooper]

You are so funny

And RIGHT!

Let's not do the hug thingy.

[TnMomofTwo]

Does anyone happen to know of any radio links online? I'm cable-challenged here...

[Wait4Truth]

LOL..I can never remember if Sammon is "stretch" or "super-stretch"...seems to me there is an even taller guy that is "super-stretch" - from one of the business magazines. He also ran with the President in Crawford..one of the only ones that could keep up with him.

[Peach]

Thankfully it's different in the south but I know what you mean. My bil sends us the ads from CA and the houses going for $1m are rather pathetic.

[Dragthor]

“I have come here tonight to report to all Americans, and to the Iraqi people, on the strategy our Nation is pursuing in Iraq, and the specific steps we are taking to achieve our goals…”

“America’s task in Iraq is not only to defeat an enemy, it is to give strength to a friend – a free, representative government that serves its people and fights on their behalf. And the sooner this goal is achieved, the sooner our job will be done.”


“There are five steps in our plan to help Iraq achieve democracy and freedom. We will hand over authority to a sovereign Iraqi government … help establish security … continue rebuilding Iraq’s infrastructure … encourage more international support … and move toward a national election that will bring forward new leaders empowered by the Iraqi people.”


“History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy. Our terrorist enemies have a vision that guides and explains all their varied acts of murder…”

“Our actions, too, are guided by a vision. We believe that freedom can advance and change lives in the Greater Middle East, as it has advanced and changed lives in Asia, and Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and Africa…”

“These two visions have now met in Iraq, and are contending for the future of that country…”

“We will persevere, and defeat this enemy, and hold this hard-won ground for the realm of liberty.”

[Howlin]

Are there more or fewer terrorists who hate America in the world today than there were 16 months ago?

OMG, you ARE a liberal!

[BJungNan]

Please, whatever you do, DON"T VOTE, until you like, uh, you know, are off, like you know, drugs.

wo, do they like check before you go in. maybe thats why that guy had that absent vote thing he wanted me to sign. he was going to give me 5 bucks just to sign it. maybe i better do that instead. wow. thanks.

[Diogenesis]

=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.

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ONLY A PARTIAL LIST OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY THESE MURDEROUS SAVAGES AND THE AL QAEDA WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on it goes .........

[DoughtyOne]

Here's to the president belting out a great speech. I think we need one.