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

www.freerepublic.com | May 21, 2004

[Howlin]

Speech begins at 8:00 P.M. EDT; carried on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and CSPAN.

[Darlin']

""I'm a scapegoat" Karpinski in PMSNBC right now saying how she was railroaded"

At the risk of sounding indelicate, she couldn't pay someone to railroad her.

[McGruff]

Coalition spokesman Dan Senor on O'Reilly now. Doesn't know if Sanchez will be pulled out. Says Sanchez has denied any knowledge of Abu Ghraib and Senor believes him.

[nopardons]

That's who Alan Clomes married?????????????????????????

[MJY1288]

Look at what the democrats were doing before the mid-term elections of 2002!!! They were basically doing the same thing they are now, the only difference is they have stepped up the vitriolic rhetoric to levels never seen before in our history as a nation.

Extreme leftist like Nancy Pelosi, Jim McDermott, Ted Kennedy, Lautenberg of New Jersey, and Dennis Kucinich are now the face of the Democrat Party. Moderates like Joe Lieberman, Evan Byhe, Zell Miller, and others like them are no longer leading the democrats, they have been silenced by the radical leftists who are taking the Party further to the left. This is a losing strategy, it would be like Pat Buchanan leading the Republican Party, That would be disastrous. And the leftist who now rule the Democrat Party will crash and burn in a spectacle rivaling the Hindenburg

[Barlowmaker]

Real people aren't paying attention right now. This speech was for the folks in the political class, here and abroad.

Seriously, nobody was hanging on the relative success of this speech but the ruling and media elites and a few of us groupies.

The election begins after Labor Day.

[hole_n_one]

If they make a movie of this, I have the perfect casting: DOLF LUNGREN.

Perfect!

[arasina]

Dick Morris is so...so...so sleazy, so tabloid.

Hey Meg, what do you think of the CPA guy Dan Senor?

[kcvl]

Text of President Bush's Speech...


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[Republic]

People know we haven't had a terrorist attack in three years! Morris seemed like he was trying to get the President to "set himself up for a fall."

I agree! Dick Morris is really wrong on this one, if other female conservatives reacted as I did to this speech, anyway.

This president's talk of the plan, mention of the hardships, praising of our troops, mentioning the successes, summarizing our vision so very eloquently at the end, inspiring hope doubly-one for the Iraqi people, the other for future world peace and security, just hit a home run with me....not only welling up a sense of strong dedication to our goals, but giving me a goodly boost of HOPE! I LOVED IT!

Dick Morris wants to ruin President Bush.

[Pukin Dog]

I don't watch CNN, I don't know. I've been talking to people on the phone who are watching all the networks to see if they even got the point. It went right over their heads, but someone will write about it soon enough, and then we can see the U.N. go nuts. They will try to say it is "too early", that Iraq is not ready yet to govern their own affairs, but they are already on record saying that the U.S. should turn over sovereignty to Iraq as soon as possible. They get no big money deals, no oil, nothing. But if they don't support Iraq, then they look horrible, and you might even see Kofi Annan on trial in Iraq. Saddam may just implicate the U.N. for spite before they cut his head off.

I've said it before, Bush knows when to hold em' and when to fold' em.

[longtermmemmory]

Notice how men are ignored in this election. There is no mention that kerry has the homosexual (m/f) vote lined up. There is no mention of feminists tied to kerry.

Morris said bush has the male vote tied up, why? Why are men so quick to dismiss kerry before the race hits its stride? Morris ignores this in favor of pandering to his female book buying, tv viewing audience. (women with a toe fetish? ha ha)

[Miss Marple]

So far, none of the critics on Fox have mentioned it...not even Krauthammer, who usually pays attention to things like that.

You have done a great service by pointing this out to us. I think you should apply to Fox as an expert commentator. Morris can go work for Kerry or something.

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[Rudder]

...what Bush has done, is remove John Kerry's platform from viability.

Good analysis all around!

But there's more to come...

The plan, which Bush cannot state formally, is to gain full U.S. operational power, both political and military, in the heartland of terrorists (the entire mideast.)

But, Bush is laying it out like a draw polker hand...one card at a time.

The truth is heard, but the data given by this one card draw approach generates a true puzzle within the populus That's one of the problems: Bush's public relations effort stays clear of the whole truth, that is: 'we will subdue the entire middle east threat,' a logical presupposition and also a consequence: The long-term goal--as stated--by Bush is insufficient to rally the masses. But to do otherwise, and lay out the big picture, would, in this Zeitgeist, be most un-PC.

[DocRock]

LOL!

[ride the whirlwind]

I haven't seen Monica Crowley for awhile so was surprised to see her on such a negative kick tonight.

[Consort]

[A CA Guy]

I'm sure you are right.

By that time, he better be ANIMATED.

He has to look like he really WANTS HIS JOB.

[MJY1288]

Have you noticed the left doesn't hire him :-)

Fox is just using him as a bad example, proving my point........ No one is useless, they can always serve as a bad example :-)

[BobFromNJ]

Bump!!! Bush was great!! Go Bush!!!