BREAKING: Full Text of Bush Iraq Speech
BREAKING: Full Text of Bush Iraq Speech
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE WAR ON TERROR
As Prepared for Delivery
Thank you and good evening. I am pleased to visit Fort Bragg — “Home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces.” It is an honor to speak before you tonight. My greatest responsibility as President is to protect the American people, and that is your calling as well. I thank you for your service, your courage and your sacrifice. I thank your families, who support you in your vital work. The soldiers and families of Fort Bragg have contributed mightily to our efforts to secure our country and promote peace. America is grateful — and so is your Commander-in-Chief.
The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. This war reached our shores on September 11, 2001. The terrorists who attacked us — and the terrorists we face — murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent. Their aim is to remake the Middle East in their own grim image of tyranny and oppression — by toppling governments, driving us out of the region, and exporting terror.
To achieve these aims, they have continued to kill — in Madrid, Istanbul, Jakarta, Casablanca, Riyadh, Bali, and elsewhere. The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent, and with a few hard blows they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken. After September 11, I made a commitment to the American people: This Nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will take the fight to the enemy. We will defend our freedom.
Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war. Many terrorists who kill innocent men, women, and children on the streets of Baghdad are followers of the same murderous ideology that took the lives of our citizens in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. There is only one course of action against them: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home. The commander in charge of Coalition operations in Iraq — who is also senior commander at this base — General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said: “We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us.”
Our mission in Iraq is clear. We are hunting down the terrorists. We are helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We are advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability — and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.
The work in Iraq is difficult and dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying — and the suffering is real. Amid all this violence, I know Americans ask the question: Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it, and it is vital to the future security of our country. And tonight I will explain the reasons why.
Some of the violence you see in Iraq is being carried out by ruthless killers who are converging on Iraq to fight the advance of peace and freedom. Our military reports that we have killed or captured hundreds of foreign fighters in Iraq who have come from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and other nations. They are making common cause with criminal elements, Iraqi insurgents, and remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime who want to restore the old order. They fight because they know that the survival of their hateful ideology is at stake. They know that as freedom takes root in Iraq, it will inspire millions across the Middle East to claim their liberty as well. And when the Middle East grows in democracy, prosperity, and hope, the terrorists will lose their sponsors, lose their recruits, and lose their hopes for turning that region into a base for attacks on America and our allies around the world.
Some wonder whether Iraq is a central front in the war on terror. Among the terrorists, there is no debate. Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden: “This Third World War is raging” in Iraq. “The whole world is watching this war.” He says it will end in “victory and glory or misery and humiliation.”
The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened, or defeated. So, they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.
We see the nature of the enemy in terrorists who exploded car bombs along a busy shopping street in Baghdad — including one outside a mosque. We see the nature of the enemy in terrorists who sent a suicide bomber to a teaching hospital in Mosul. And we see the nature of the enemy in terrorists who behead civilian hostages and broadcast their atrocities for the world to see.
These are savage acts of violence — but they have not brought the terrorists any closer to achieving their strategic objectives. The terrorists — both foreign and Iraqi — failed to stop the transfer of sovereignty. They failed to break our Coalition and force a mass withdrawal by our allies. They failed to incite an Iraqi civil war. They failed to prevent free elections. They failed to stop the formation of a democratic Iraqi government that represents all of Iraq’s diverse population. And they failed to stop Iraqis from signing up in large numbers with the police forces and the army to defend their new democracy.
The lesson of this experience is clear: The terrorists can kill the innocent — but they cannot stop the advance of freedom. The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11 if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden. For the sake of our Nation’s security, this will not happen on my watch.
A little over a year ago, I spoke to the Nation and described our Coalition’s goal in Iraq. I said that America’s mission in Iraq is to defeat an enemy and give strength to a friend — a free, representative government that is an ally in the war on terror, and a beacon of hope in a part of the world that is desperate for reform. I outlined the steps we would take to achieve this goal: We would hand authority over to a sovereign Iraqi government we would help Iraqis hold free elections by January 2005 we would continue helping Iraqis rebuild their nation’s infrastructure and economy we would encourage more international support for Iraq’s democratic transition and we would enable Iraqis to take increasing responsibility for their own security and stability.
In the past year, we have made significant progress:
One year ago today, we restored sovereignty to the Iraqi people.
In January 2005, more than eight million Iraqi men and women voted in elections that were free and fair — and took place on time.
We continued our efforts to help them rebuild their country. Rebuilding a country after three decades of tyranny is hard — and rebuilding while at war is even harder. Our progress has been uneven — but progress is being made. We are improving roads, and schools, and health clinics and working to improve basic services like sanitation, electricity, and water. And together with our allies, we will help the new Iraqi government deliver a better life for its citizens.
In the past year, the international community has stepped forward with vital assistance. Some thirty nations have troops in Iraq, and many others are contributing non-military assistance. The United Nations is in Iraq to help Iraqis write a constitution and conduct their next elections. Thus far, some 40 countries and three international organizations have pledged about 34 billion dollars in assistance for Iraqi reconstruction. More than 80 countries and international organizations recently came together in Brussels to coordinate their efforts to help Iraqis provide for their security and rebuild their country. And next month, donor countries will meet in Jordan to support Iraqi reconstruction. Whatever our differences in the past, the world understands that success in Iraq is critical to the security of all our nations. As German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said at the White House yesterday, “There can be no question a stable and democratic Iraq is in the vested interest of not just Germany, but also Europe.”
Finally, we have continued our efforts to equip and train Iraqi Security Forces. We have made gains in both the number and quality of those forces. Today Iraq has more than 160,000 security forces trained and equipped for a variety of missions. Iraqi forces have fought bravely — helping to capture terrorists and insurgents in Najaf, Samarra, Fallujah, and Mosul. And in the past month, Iraqi forces have led a major anti-terrorist campaign in Baghdad called Operation Lightning — which has led to the capture of hundreds of suspected insurgents. Like free people everywhere, Iraqis want to be defended by their own countrymen — and we are helping Iraqis assume those duties.
The progress in the past year has been significant — and we have a clear path forward. To complete the mission, we will continue to hunt down the terrorists and insurgents. To complete the mission, we will prevent al-Qaida and other foreign terrorists from turning Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban — a safe haven from which they could launch attacks on America and our friends. And the best way to complete the mission is to help Iraqis build a free nation that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself.
So our strategy going forward has both a military track and a political track.
The principal task of our military is to find and defeat the terrorists — and that is why we are on the offense. And as we pursue the terrorists, our military is helping to train Iraqi Security Forces so that they can defend their people and fight the enemy on their own. Our strategy can be summed up this way: As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.
We have made progress — but we have a lot more work to do. Today Iraqi Security Forces are at different levels of readiness. Some are capable of taking on the terrorists and insurgents by themselves. A larger number can plan and execute anti-terrorist operations with Coalition support. The rest are forming and not yet ready to participate fully in security operations. Our task is to make the Iraqi units fully capable and independent. We are building up Iraqi Security Forces as quickly as possible, so they can assume the lead in defeating the terrorists and insurgents.
Our Coalition is devoting considerable resources and manpower to this critical task. Thousands of Coalition troops are involved in the training and equipping of Iraqi Security Forces. NATO is establishing a military academy near Baghdad to train the next generation of Iraqi military leaders — and 17 nations are contributing troops to the NATO training mission. Iraqi Army and Police are being trained by personnel from Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Romania, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Today dozens of nations are working toward a common objective: an Iraq that can defend itself, defeat its enemies, and secure its freedom.
To further prepare Iraqi forces to fight the enemy on their own, we are taking three new steps:
First, we are partnering Coalition units with Iraqi units. These Coalition-Iraqi teams are conducting operations together in the field. These combined operations are giving Iraqis a chance to experience how the most professional armed forces in the world operate in combat.
Second, we are embedding Coalition “Transition Teams” inside Iraqi units. These teams are made up of Coalition officers and non-commissioned officers who live, work, and fight together with their Iraqi comrades. Under U.S. command, they are providing battlefield advice and assistance to Iraqi forces during combat operations. Between battles, they are assisting the Iraqis with important skills — such as urban combat, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance techniques.
Third, we are working with the Iraqi Ministries of Interior and Defense to improve their capabilities to coordinate anti-terrorist operations. We are helping them develop command and control structures. We are also providing them with civilian and military leadership training, so Iraq’s new leaders can more effectively manage their forces in the fight against terror.
The new Iraqi Security Forces are proving their courage every day. More than 2,000 members of the Iraqi Security Forces have given their lives in the line of duty. Thousands more have stepped forward, and are now in training to serve their nation. With each engagement, Iraqi soldiers grow more battle-hardened, and their officers grow more experienced. We have learned that Iraqis are courageous and that they need additional skills. That is why a major part of our mission is to train them so they can do the fighting and our troops can come home.
I recognize that Americans want our troops to come home as quickly as possible. So do I. Some contend that we should set a deadline for withdrawing U.S. forces. Let me explain why that would be a serious mistake. Setting an artificial timetable would send the wrong message to the Iraqis — who need to know that America will not leave before the job is done. It would send the wrong message to our troops — who need to know that we are serious about completing the mission they are risking their lives to achieve. And it would send the wrong message to the enemy — who would know that all they have to do is to wait us out. We will stay in Iraq as long as we are needed — and not a day longer.
Some Americans ask me, if completing the mission is so important, why don’t you send more troops? If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever — when we are in fact working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave. As we determine the right force level, our troops can know that I will continue to be guided by the advice that matters — the sober judgment of our military leaders.
The other critical element of our strategy is to help ensure that the hopes Iraqis expressed at the polls in January are translated into a secure democracy. The Iraqi people are emerging from decades of tyranny and oppression. Under the regime of Saddam Hussein, the Shia and Kurds were brutally oppressed — and the vast majority of Sunni Arabs were also denied their basic rights while senior regime officials enjoyed the privileges of unchecked power. The challenge facing Iraqis today is to put this past behind them, and come together to build a new Iraq that includes all its people.
They are doing that by building the institutions of a free society — a society based on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and equal justice under law. The Iraqis have held free elections and established a Transitional National Assembly. The next step is to write a good constitution that enshrines these freedoms in permanent law. The Assembly plans to expand its constitutional drafting committee to include more Sunni Arabs. Many Sunnis who opposed the January elections are now taking part in the democratic process — and that is essential to Iraq’s future.
After a constitution is written, the Iraqi people will have a chance to vote on it. If approved, Iraqis will go to the polls again, to elect a new government under their new, permanent constitution. By taking these critical steps and meeting their deadlines, Iraqis will bind their multiethnic society together in a democracy that respects the will of the majority and protects minority rights.
As Iraqis grow confident that the democratic progress they are making is real and permanent, more will join the political process. And as Iraqis see that their military can protect them, more will step forward with vital intelligence to help defeat the enemies of a free Iraq. The combination of political and military reform will lay a solid foundation for a free and stable Iraq.
As Iraqis make progress toward a free society, the effects are being felt beyond Iraq’s borders. Before our Coalition liberated Iraq, Libya was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons. Today the leader of Libya has given up his chemical and nuclear weapons programs. Across the broader Middle East, people are claiming their freedom. In the last few months, we have witnessed elections in the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon. These elections are inspiring democratic reformers in places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Our strategy to defend ourselves and spread freedom is working. The rise of freedom in this vital region will eliminate the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of murder — and make our Nation safer.
We have more work to do, and there will be tough moments that test America’s resolve. We are fighting against men with blind hatred — and armed with lethal weapons — who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras. They are trying to shake our will in Iraq — just as they tried to shake our will on September 11, 2001. They will fail. The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat — and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.
America and our friends are in a conflict that demands much of us. It demands the courage of our fighting men and women it demands the steadfastness of our allies and it demands the perseverance of our citizens. We accept these burdens — because we know what is at stake. We fight today, because Iraq now carries the hope of freedom in a vital region of the world — and the rise of democracy will be the ultimate triumph over radicalism and terror. And we fight today because terrorists want to attack our country and kill our citizens — and Iraq is where they are making their stand. So we will fight them there we will fight them across the world — and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.
America has done difficult work before. From our desperate fight for independence, to the darkest days of a Civil War, to the hard-fought battles against tyranny in the 20th Century, there were many chances to lose our heart, our nerve, or our way. But Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that this great ideal of human freedom is entrusted to us in a special way — and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.
In this time of testing, our troops can know: The American people are behind you. Next week, our Nation has an opportunity to make sure that support is felt by every soldier, sailor, airman, coast guardsman, and Marine at every outpost across the world. This Fourth of July, I ask you to find a way to thank the men and women defending our freedom — by flying the flag sending letters to our troops in the field or helping the military family down the street. The Department of Defense has set up a website — AmericaSupportsYou.mil. You can go there to learn about private efforts in your own community. At this time when we celebrate our freedom, let us stand with the men and women who defend us all.
To the soldiers in this hall, and our servicemen and women across the globe: I thank you for your courage under fire and your service to our Nation. I thank our military families — the burden of war falls especially hard on you. In this war, we have lost good men and women who left our shores to defend freedom — and did not live to make the journey home. I have met with families grieving the loss of loved ones who were taken from us too soon. I have been inspired by their strength in the face of such great loss. We pray for the families. And the best way to honor the lives that have been given in this struggle is to complete the mission.
I thank those of you who have re-enlisted in an hour when your country needs you. And to those watching tonight who are considering a military career, there is no higher calling than service in our Armed Forces. We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our Nation’s uniform. When the history of this period is written, the liberation of Afghanistan and the liberation of Iraq will be remembered as great turning points in the story of freedom.
After September 11, 2001, I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult — and that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult. And we are prevailing. Our enemies are brutal — but they are no match for the United States of America — and they are no match for the men and women of the United States military.
Thank you. And may God bless America.
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Only four references to 9/11. I’m shocked. Rah, rah, rah. Comparing the war in Iraq to the Civil War. I’m sure this’ll give those red-state Repubs a nice hard-on.
June 28th, 2005 at 7:58 pmHe mentioned bin Laden by name twice (after going from mid-2002 through November 2004 without doing so)? I think we’ve reached Defcon-4 on the Administration desperation chart.
I’m going to skip the real-time drinking game and just take five shots of Goldschlager for the five 9/11 references.
June 28th, 2005 at 7:59 pmI count 5 references to 9/11.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:01 pmUH, there were 5 references, and 9/11 is still a fraud.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:02 pmWTC 7, the key to the fraud, key to unraveling the cover-up.
Dont want to hear it? Dont want to believe it? Then take the Vice President’s advice and “Go F@%&*Yourself.
you’re right. It was 5. Please forgive me!
June 28th, 2005 at 8:03 pmsept. 11th had NOTHING TO DO WITH IRAQ–he wants to brain wash everyone into thinking that–Iraq was an educated, no insurgency or terrorist country before we invaded it. he really thinks that Americans are asleep and stupid. What an insult to us that he even dared to give that speech. Everything that he talks about that is evil, is what he is doing, here, in the United State. I think he should take his gand and go start another country. So the states that are united can stay together. I hate the way he has made this country look and be, corrupt, arrogant and cowardly.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:05 pmHe has gotta go—-impeach-overthrow in a bloodless coup-but he and his ilk have got to go. He is destroying this country. This speech will make us more of a laughing stock around the world.
I didn’t hear any mention of the Downing Street Minutes. Bush had to give his little speech at an Army Base to avoid demonstrations. He is such a coward. What a liar! Everyone should pay close attention to online polls and let them know how we feel about this charade. Nothing like free props for the GOP. The Republican Party should have to pay the salaries of all service personell who had to sit there and endure a night of lies.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:08 pmWhen your poll numbers go down start the 9-11 rehtoric machine up. Gee, I thought Osama was hiding in Afghanistan not Iraq? Stupid people, when will we admit we’ve been had and hold this regime accountable.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:09 pmTerrorist are killing Americans almost every day. They are killing our soldiers in Iraq… blown to pieces. The only difference is that the terrorists are doing the killing in their own country. Bring back the draft to make sure that Americans are truely vested in the wars they choose to fight.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:11 pm“When your poll numbers go down start the 9-11 rehtoric machine up.”
My thoughts exactly. Well done.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:12 pmI still “don’t get it”. Why did the US invade Iraq? What was the connection between Iraq and 9/11? Why and when did the US change reasons for invading Iraq? When will the people of Iraq be held responsible for the “democracy” GWB claims they SO want? Why has the CIA named Iraq as the best training grounds for terrorists SINCE the US invasion?
Help me, I still “don’t get it”.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:15 pmIt’s mind-numbing.
9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11
June 28th, 2005 at 8:16 pmblah blah blah blah blah blah
blah
Thank You.
And I *DON’T* mean “Thank You, GW”!!!! Websites like Thinkprogress.org Really Help cut thru the B.S.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:17 pmAnswer: We invaded Iraq because we were attacked by Afghanistan. At least it looks that way to me.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:18 pm“the terrorists… murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent. Their aim is to remake the Middle East in their own grim image of tyranny and oppression – by toppling governments,… and exporting terror.”
June 28th, 2005 at 8:19 pmSounds like The Chief Conman is talking about HIS group of evil doers hiding safe in Washington while they put OUR Soldiers in harms way and then continue to cut benefits for veterans. Yeah, a real group of patriots those chicken-shit-hawks.
What a STOOGE… can’t even read the SPEECH properly!
June 28th, 2005 at 8:21 pmBUSH SEEMS TO BE WAITING for APPLAUSE MOMENTS and HOO RAHs that AREN’T COMING FROM THE SERVICEMEN…
June 28th, 2005 at 8:23 pmThe question that never is answered…how are we as Americans safer today than we were before we invaded Iraq? The only reason Iraq is the “frontline” of the war on terror is because W. decided to make it so and not from any threat from Iraq.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:25 pmJust came back from Iraq. I don’t hear him mention the water shortages, Typhoid,
no electricity in Baghdad 80 % of the time, lack of basic medicines.
My Iraqi friends say “Oh thank you Am. can’t you smell the freedom and democracy,
oh wait, it’s the smell of another car bomb”
I don’t hear him speaking about the growing Iraqi resistance movement that’s taking hold because the average Iraqi is so tired of living in worse conditions than they had under Saddam.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:27 pmGW needs a reality check.
the guy believes his own press. he just mentioned 9/11 again. doesn’t he have any thing else to say?
June 28th, 2005 at 8:30 pmwatch bush speech replay WITH SOUND OFF–watch how his eyes are laughing–you can see he thinks this is one big joke–it is horrifying. watch
June 28th, 2005 at 8:31 pmNo mention of “last throes” or twelve years before we can leave. It does seem very convenient for ‘w’ and his minions to send Americans to Iraq to be killed theoretically so that we can feel safe. I will bet, however, that this does very little to make mothers and fathers who lost sons and daughters for no apparent reason feel any better. Bush has become one of the best ways for the insurgents to recruit members. Good to note that this same thing is NOT true for Americans as they stay away from the military in droves!
June 28th, 2005 at 8:37 pmIt was so telling that Bush seemed unable to find the camera, unable to look us in the eye. He looked to the left, to the right, but rarely at us, who are supposed to be able to look to him for some kind of intelligent and compassionate leadership. Echoes of Nixon, of everyone unable to tell the truth. I feel as if my country has been taken over by a band of criminals, and I cannot wait until justice, respect for rule of law, respect for Geneva conventions, respect for the intelligence of the American people, return.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:39 pmWe are borrowing the $300 billion needed to finance the ongoing American atrocities in Iraq (over one billion a day). Bush has eliminated-at least temporarily-the estate tax on the heirs of billionaires (”death tax”). We now have a “birth tax” of about $150,000 for each American baby born (NYTimes). However, this “tax” will only pay interest on the now unpayable national debt–going to the people of China, Japan, South Korea and Europe for the indefinite future.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:43 pmI counted “coalition” eleven times in the speech. He must be referring to the coalition of the bribed, of the coerced, of the tricked. I have to admit, I quit reading when I read that we are in Iraq because we must fight the terrorists abroad or at home. That is such a crock of crap. The speech, or the first half of it or so that I read, has so many subtle false statements in it. I’m sure Karl Rove stayed up late many nights writing this masterpiece of continuing deception.
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June 28th, 2005 at 8:46 pmIf Bush were the captain of the starship Enterprise…
June 28th, 2005 at 8:47 pmAccording to Karl Rove philosophy the President who sought to win the war on terrorism by taking the fight to the enemy by following the road into Iraq and Democrats who questioned that approach.
What I SEE
If this is the Republican philosophical thoughts after 9-11
WE HAVE MAJOR PROBLEMS
We did not get Bin Laden >>>
big failure for 9-11
11 out of 19 terrorist where from Saudi Arabia>>
big failure for going after terrorist
40 percent of the suicide bombers are from Saudi Arabia
Ask the Saudis to help not walk hand in hand
In War
Where is the body armor?
Where is the vehicle armor?
Pay for the troops verses pay for Brown Root people
Health benefits for soldiers
Help with house morgages plus family needs
Photo OP
Bush and fake turkey
Carrier Landing
Bush appears to love flying around in a 747( Jefferson airplane song)
IT LOOKS LIKE BUSH IS NOT GOING AFTER THE TERRORIST
Republican philosophy is not working.
Democrats want to go after the Bin Laden, Republicans did everything but go after Bin Laden
June 28th, 2005 at 8:49 pmIn response to Erich Korte: it’s too soon to start talking about a draft. We need some real leadership first that will insure that we have a WITHDRAWAL strategy instead of just sending more of our precious men & women to JUST GET CHEWED UP IN THIS INSANE SHIT. We need to know that the mission of our brave men and women is more than just being cannon fodder for this vile, despicable administration whose main role seems to be to provide contracts for Halliburton and to help the oil companies divvy up Iraq’s oil holdings.
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET TIRED OF THIS SHIT! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET TIRED OF BEING LIED TO AND USED? I despaire for my country, that we no longer can call our leaders on their lies.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:49 pmAs a kid in high school two books; works of fiction ; left a lasting impression on me. Orwells 1984 and Hitlers ‘my battel’. Each was frightnen in it’s own way. One was about a ‘mad’ world, and the other was written by a madman.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:50 pmBoath books attempted to build a socity based on lies and fear.
Imagen how it feals to be an old man reading a speach to be given by an Americen pResident that combines some of the worst elements of those books. I am saddened, frightned and appalled.
Wandy
Kinda cool stuff. There was a haunting feedback on microphone which generated resonating, melancholic tones. Screwed up only couple times, compared to stumbling debates last year.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:52 pmThere didn’t seem to be a microphone pack on his back tonight.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:59 pmThis is rich: “And to those watching tonight who are considering a military career, there is no higher calling than service in our Armed Forces.”
If there is no higher calling than service in our Armed Forces why didn’t you enlist? This empty hypocritical rhetoric has become common for this administration but not any less nauseating.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:02 pmWe DID NOT invade Iraq to give its people freedom and democracy, nor to spread those ideals throughout the Middle East and the wider world. We DID NOT exhaust international diplomatic efforts to help the Iraqis rid themselves of their tyrant. We invaded Iraq because we elected a militaristic corporatist who helped plan this whole takeover of the Middle East and its resources a decade ago. No, not Bush. Cheney.
Doris, if you haven’t already, read the documents available at the Project for a New American Century web site. You will “get it”. People who signed up to defend America with their lives fight and die damn near halfway around the world so that Cheney and his clients can make money and take power. In the immortal words of Deep Throat, “follow the money”.
It ain’t about terrorism, or security, or peace. It’s about power.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:04 pmQuick, count’em. How many references to Saddam Hussein in the speech? Two throwaway references. How many times were WMDs mentioned. Zero times.
So why did we invade Iraq? Did you think it was because Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction threatened American cities? Where did you get that silly idea?
It was because terrorists were swarming over Iraq, clutching plane tickets to America in their terroristic fists. Nothing could have stopped them except our invasion. Spread that freedom peanut butter, even if you tear the bread apart.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:05 pmI’M PEACHY KEEN
June 28th, 2005 at 9:08 pmput this with any photo of bush or cheney
make t-shirts bumper stickers etc.
If the Bush/Cheney/Republican fiasco in Iraq succeeds, we will have a Shi-ite Islamic Revolutionary Republic in a fragmented terrorist incubating failed state of Iraq. Thousands more dead and wounded Americans, a national credit card bill of half a trillion or so (much going to the good souls of Halliburton and other Republican connected war profiteers), and an image as the most ignorant, indebted, war loving, demagogue compliant, meth intoxicated, brainwashed and poorly led downwardly mobile nation on earth.
Hooray, Viva Bush.
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June 28th, 2005 at 9:22 pmBUCK
June 28th, 2005 at 9:32 pmFUSH
why do you liberals hate america so much?
….just kidding.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:35 pmTerrorists: 23
June 28th, 2005 at 9:37 pmInsurgents: 4
Resistance: 0
Resident Bozo must not believe that anyone in Iraq would be fighting because they just don’t want any foreiners in their country. Gee… if I were an Iraqi I wouldn’t want any foreiners there either. JUST LIKE I WOULDN’T WANT ANY HERE EITHER!
Prez. Brainless needs to WAKE- UP!
The election “we” set-up for January? I might be wrong but I thought Bushco wanted it in October and the Iraqi’s wanted to move it up so “we” would move out sooner.
You liberals just hate Bush. You should be glad to have such a great leader in times like this!
June 28th, 2005 at 9:39 pm“…we are serious about completing the mission they are risking their lives to achieve.”
“We will stay in Iraq as long as we are needed – and not a day longer.”
“… know that America will not leave before the job is done.”
So, not only are the US forces in Iraq not leaving no conditions were specified for when we will know that the job is ‘done’.
The cake didn’t walk. Hell, it didn’t even stand up.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:43 pmAfter Iraq,then who are we going to save? Bush is evil
June 28th, 2005 at 9:49 pmIn response to Jim(#43)
June 28th, 2005 at 9:51 pmYou are 100% right, “Libruls” do hate Bush. As do REAL Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, Patriots and Americans! The only exceptions are those with IQ’s below 21 and all you followers who have never had a thought or opinion of your own.
Bush is the lowest form of scum on earth. He is a liar, a murderer and a war criminal. Anyone who is still supporting this fascist needs his/her head examined.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:59 pmI am sorry I could not watch that persons speech tonight, although I did realize that I would be reading it soon enough. I know he is trying to hold onto any backing that he can keep, but I am glad to say that your 51-52 % that followed you in Nov. is not behind you today. I am not surprised that he brought up 9/11 or our service people, I am just surprised that he didn’t invoke GODS name. The only reason to go to war is to protect our Constitution this did not pass the litmus test, but on the other hand we are now face with “we the people� to defend it ourselves seeing that our government has stopped. Is anyone else tried of these clowns holding the fag high in one hand and a Bible in the other and not following the principles of ether.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:11 pmFace it, America
A war based on lies, deceit, and unprincipled motives cannot triumph in the long run. A person who allows him/her self to be deceived are destined for the same fate as the deceivers. Take a look at all the extinct empires of history. They followed foolish un-elected leaders to their downfall. It is our responsibility to get the facts — objectively, realistically, logically and morally. In a democracy, we would then ACT by retaking our government.
To be truly patriotic, one must want what’s best for the country, not worst. If we blindly follow the leader, are we no better than German citizens trapped under the rule of the Nazi Party and were duped into attacking surrounding nations without provocation? Invasions backed by nationalist fervor; wars declared with overwhelming popular support?
The fallout from the Fool’s War will last for decades. Given our power, we’ll win the war, but won’t win the peace. Hundreds of new Osama bin Laughin’ are now waiting for us; the hornets’ nest has just been stirred up… Thousands more terrorists are just yearning to be martyrs against Bush’s America. America has fallen for the zionist trap. Bush’s zionist cronies have duped America and her sons and daughters are now paying the price with their lives for Israel.
I am sure some may continue to say, “Well, what’s the difference? Muslims hated us before and were out to get us; so it makes no difference whether we go after Iraq or not.”
The difference is MAGNITUDE or VOLUME. Since the U.S., much like Israel, is now perceived by most of the world as the aggressor and our thinly veiled unconditional support for Sharon’s Israel has now been laid bare, untold millions in the Arab/Muslim world, who before 3/19/03 were not hostile toward the U.S., are now inflamed and angry to action. Instead of one Osama bin Laughin’, we now have hundreds if not thousands, thanks to the foolish actions of the gutless Bushwhacker who cowers to his zionist masters and does the dirty work he’s asked to do for them. What a pathetic man!
June 28th, 2005 at 10:13 pmimpeach. better yet send all their chickenhawk asses to the hague. now. more evidence for war crimes than Slobo. C´mon America, wake the hell up! We´re supposed to be the good guys. hahahahahahhaahahahhhhahaahahahh.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:20 pmI like comment # 43…….guess anyone with a brain is a liberal
June 28th, 2005 at 10:20 pmBush an over-priviliged, out-of-touch simpleton. But he’s a Republican, so I guess that should not some as a surpise.
As “commander-in-chief” he gave marching orders for to lead us into right into Saddam’s last trap – the quagmire.
Maybe he will succeed in transforming Iraq into a submissive, shell-shocked America-loving Christian Arab satellite state that we can pump oil out of for free, like mad Mullahs to feed our fleets of 25-foot family deisel pickup trucks.
Or maybe we’ll withdraw from Iraq in something less than ideal circumstances, wishing all republicans would go to hell.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:21 pmBush is repeating over and over the same message to catapult the propaganda, he is a stubborn ruthless man.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:23 pmWhat a wonderful batch of comments. It’s great to know that the majority of this once great nation sees the truth about Bushco.
Everybody here has contributed so much and you are all to be commended for your great insight.
Peace.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:53 pmI came here from Leiter — he approved of the general level of discourse and analysis. I’ll remember that next time he is critical of anyone else’s thought patterns.
Not to mention, I agree with his hostile and demeaning comments he made about those who posted anonymously to support him at volokh.com
June 28th, 2005 at 11:00 pmI couldn’t watch it either. I did everything I could before the election, and got so angry that by now I can’t stand watching any of that crew of war profiteering criminals.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:06 pmYou folks who did watch it, did he actually get through the entire text of a speech this long and this complex? This level of dificulty is not the Bush we’ve seen the most. This guy doesn’t think like this at all, when you listen to him at other times.
BTW, if you want to see some opinions from some real vets about this whole mess, check out this site for soldiers.
http://takeittokarl.blogspot.com/
It was provoked by Karl Rove’s recent insults. I can’t post there, as I don’t qualify, as I haven’t served, but I suspect some of you might have a few things to share.
I do think it our job as citizens to ask very tough questions. IF we send our folks over to fight somewhere, then it’s also our job to make sure they get what they need to do the job right. Which is why somebody ought to be held accountable for such scandals as that body armor shortage, let alone Halliburton cheating on rations and only “giving it back” when somebody audits them properly.
Uh…can someone answer just one question?
Seems that the “Recruiter-in-Chief” is not urging one special demographic to sign up! How ’bout those Bush girls? Are they even employed one year after graduation? Perhaps a tour in the Army would show their support for his war, eh?
you want my children for the fake war you are so damn enthusiastic about? Have your daughters sign up first.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:09 pmIf you listen very carefully, you can hear the BushCorp cronies sucking the life out of America, our beautful nation. I think it might be America that is in its last throes, and it is a pity we all let it get this far. That this man can sit in the White House and have one person supporting him would be a travesty. What do his supporters see in him? If we can figure that out, and how to deal with it, we can save America. But first we have to clean house…and senate…and the supreme court (eventually).
June 28th, 2005 at 11:18 pmLet’s face it, folks:
Amid all the chaos, Iraqis fear for their future.
Amid the anarchy, even the provisions of the Geneva Convention lie as much in tatters.
International law makes it obligatory for the “coalition forces,” in this case the “occupying Anglo-American forces,” to maintain the city’s law and order and ensure the lives and property of its citizens:
Article 50 of the Geneva Convention (4) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, adopted in 1949, stipulates that the occupying power must “facilitate the proper working of all institutions devoted to the care and education of children.”
Article 55 says that occupying power, as far as possible, “has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population, it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate.”
Article 56 says the occupying power “has the duty of ensuring and maintaining with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory….”
Article 59 says the occupying power must “facilitate relief schemes where supplies to the population are inadequate. Aid schemes may be undertaken by governments or humanitarian groups to provide food, medical supplies and clothing.”
Tragically for Iraq, the provisions haven’t been enforced as yet and the fruit of “liberation” tastes bitter for its residents.
Shame on Bush and his zionist cronies/thugs. :o(
June 28th, 2005 at 11:33 pmOur “Commander-In-Chief,” “The War President” must think that we are all children. On the other hand, they are extremely good at what they do regarding controlling media, propaganda or the “air ways.” Did he say anything new? The current White House occupants are masters at public deception. How stupid do they think they are!? Yet, I will not be shocked if he scores points in terms of public opinion. What he didn’t talk about? Where is Osama Bin Laden and the global “War On Terror?” Aren’t there more terrorists, in say, Saudia Arabia–or even throughout Europe, for that matter! Prior to the Iraq War, the Iraqi country was NOT known for terrorism. Why were they “targeted?” Do we yet know? Okay, according to Rumsfeld, we could be there 5, 12 or 15 years? Are we ever going to leave Iraq? The US will “step down” when the Iraqis “step up?” This sounds like an agenda for a long affair. I am NOT so much against the operations in Iraq–it is the lies, and subsequent “misallocation” of resources (American lives, money, world tensions, etc) that have not been adequately explained to the US public.
Johnnie Walker
June 28th, 2005 at 11:41 pmWell well the poor widows son speaks again and as always I would guess the sheople let it go right over there heads, glad to see there are a few awake people out here. As far as 911(which had not one thing to do with Iraq) or Iraq (lets see do you think just maybe all the great knowledge of one of the oldest countries in the world destroyed had anything to do with it, now they can change history)this war has always been a personal thing to Bush and his war mongers. So all that support it send your children in the name of a long forgotten nation (uSA not USA) sure that went over quite a few heads.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:47 pmVery good comment, “Radical One!” Plainly stated, Why did the US (Bush) go to war with Iraq. At present, the public does not know.
Johnnie Walker
June 28th, 2005 at 11:51 pmJune 27, 2005 – President G. W. Bush, early his speech: “… troops across the world are fighting a global war on terror. This war reached our shores on September 11, 2001. The terrorists who attacked us …� I interrupt here to dispel the first deception, trying to connect Iraq to the Sept. 11th attacks, which unless you’ve just landed on this planet looking for some indoor plumbing, would know that connection was debunked long ago. Are there “terrorists� there now? You betcha-sweet-ass. There are now more than ever before. And believe this we have Bush to thank for this. Fact is, it’s one of the many crimes he’s committed he should be convicted of.
Terrorists were there when we kicked their butts so bad in 91’ that they did exactly what we told them to do. They destroyed all their weapons of mass destruction. Terrorists were there when Donald Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam Hussien when we weren’t so picky about who we called our “friends�. Unlike the current leader of Kurdistan today to name just one of several murderous dictators Bush gives a wink and a nod to. (But I digress)
The “one� thing that Bush cannot do is tell us is what Iraqi was attacking us on September 11th 2001?
He doesn’t want to draw attention to Usama binLaden – remember him? Bush doesn’t. Bush didn’t mention binLaden once or the fact that 15 of the attackers that day came from Saudi Arabia. You know – our “friends�.
Anyway, Bush goes on in his speech to try to convince us that this is some “new kind of war�. Maybe to him, after all the only experience he’s ever had with war had something to do with “champagne�. But for the rest of us, who have to walk the streets of this country, can tell you that since the first monkey picked up a stick, that there is nothing “new� about war or terror.
Bush than injects this vision that Iraq has become the terrorist’s magnet again and we can kill them over there “instead of in our streets�. (Yeah, that’s how I want to fight a war. Half way around the world on my enemies turf with more and more fanatical suicidal maniacs pouring into the country all because Bush gave them good reason by attacking the wrong #%&*ing country.)
The filler of the speech was, for lack of a better phrase, the some-old-shit.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:58 pmThan something happened. Bush mentions that “If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job.� Really? So the rest of the speech that Bush seeming dedicated to recruitment (I had a strange flask back to a scene from the “Night of the Living Dead� where the zombies chant “more brains … send more brains�) means that those that join “don’t have to go to Iraq�? Next he proudly announced that his own daughters were signing up.
You know that happened.
People study history, this is an old Holy War. It’s about ownership not the bad guy. All the bad guys are friends to this administration, probably blood related. Think about the first things destroyed, all the history museums and artifacts (things that where protected before we went there). It’s about erasing knowledge so the sheople will follow the poor widows son.
June 29th, 2005 at 12:08 amHairem scarem. Don’t you sheple get it? The terrorists are a highly coordinated refined liberal sponsored freedom fighting machine with dyabolical plans of destroying us good mericans piece by piece blah blah blah.
June 29th, 2005 at 1:15 amWell if it’s so coordinated and the majority are known to be Saudi’s then why didn’t we invade SA? They have alot of oil too ya know…
Anyone that believes this guy is either a half-wit or a greedy bastard.
http://billmon.org/archives/001952.html billmon detects a subtle change in the Bush verbage, and predicts that the USA will sit down with the [Sunni] “insurgents” and start negotiating … which I think that might provoke intense dismay from some [Shiite] members of the interim Iraq govt.
June 29th, 2005 at 1:21 am“So why did we invade Iraq?” (off top of my head)….
- Bio & WMDs threats and international intelligence
- Iraq harbored terrorists like Zarqawi, Abu Nidal, the ANO, Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist al-Salahat, bomb maker Abdul Rahman Yasin, intelligence indicating cooperation with Al Qaeda, etc.
- Hussein was encouraging terrorism and paying rewards to suicide bombers
- Clinton & Congress passed a regime change policy for Iraq in 1998
- Iraq broke their cease fire agreements from last war we fought with him a decade ago
- Hussein butchered and gassed his own people
- His two even more crazy sons were soon to be in power
- Iraq violated more than a dozen UN resolutions
- Iraq publicly and continuously talked about killing, hurting and defeating the USA
- Jumpstart a democracy and freedom movement in the Middle East
The Senate, President Bush, and Department of Defense all reviewed the same intelligence and all agreed military action was an appropriate option.
June 29th, 2005 at 1:32 amFrom across the border:
Your nation is “at war”, the majority are stunned, bewildered. This is understandable given the spectacle that surrounds and sedates. War does not fit the image, it is unfashionable, an eyesore, confusing- unless it’s raging from your x-boxes, re-creations of Vietnam.
Sad, sick, sedated.
My heart grieves for the lives murdered. Where TF does anyone get off murdering innocent people. The suicide bombers are sick, but so is your government.
Hypocrits!
FREEDOM? Define freedom, you sick perverts.
I’m pissed, and I shudder to think what this violence begets. Do you know how many millions of Americans will eat this shlop because they are too ignorant or cut off from being an engaged and educated member of society.
Eating fried chicken, watching some dumb ass try to woo some dumb ass, “reality” style. People are so depressed, because deep down, they know what their swallowing is crap, and yet they can’t stop chewing it.
Courage has nothing to do with violence.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:46 amI HAVE CONTACTED DIEBOLD, AND THEY HAVE GIVEN ME A NEW PROGRAM TO DECODE BULL SHIT SPEWED BY A FANATIC….(it takes the original text of the speech and drops the words zealots DON’T HEAR) There has been NO additions made, merely deletions……
BREAKING: Full Text of Bush Iraq Speech
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE WAR ON TERROR
As Prepared for Delivery
My greatest responsibility is to protect the people. America is grateful – and so is your Commander-in-Chief.
murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent. To achieve these aims, they have continued to kill
believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent,
This Nation will not wait to be attacked . We will take the fight to the enemy.
Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war.
followers of the same murderous ideology that took lives
There is only one course of action against them: to defeat them before they attack us “We either deal with this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us.�
We are hunting down the terrorists.
We are a source of violence and instability – and laying the foundation for our children and our grandchildren.
I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying – and the suffering is real. all this violence, ask the question: Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it, it is vital to the future of our country. And tonight I will explain the reasons why.
the violence is being carried out by ruthless killers who are converging to advance Our military
reports that we have killed or captured hundreds who have come
They are common criminal elements, who want to restore the old order.
They fight because they know that the survival of their hateful ideology is at stake.
in democracy, prosperity, and hope, the terrorists will lose their sponsors, lose their recruits, and lose their hopes for turning into a base for attacks
Some wonder whether Iraq is a central front in the war on terror.
Hear the words Osama Bin Laden:
“This Third World War … is raging�
“The whole world is watching this war.�
it will end in “victory and glory or misery and humiliation.�
the outcome will leave them emboldened, So, wag a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives.
see the nature of the enemy
see the enemy
we see the nature of the enemy
broadcast atrocities for the world to see. savage acts of violence
closer to achieving strategic objectives. terrorists – both foreign and Iraqi They failed to force a withdrawal They failed . They failed
prevent free elections.
They failed the formation of a democratic government that represents all of diverse population.
they failed to stop signing up in large numbers with the forces
The lesson of this experience is clear: kill the innocent – they cannot stop
The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons
and if we yield the future to men like Bin Laden. For the sake of our Nation’s security, this will happen on my watch.
A little over a year ago, I spoke
mission is to defeat an enemy and give strength to a fiend – a government that is an ally in the war world
that is desperate reform.
We would hand authority to a government … free elections
rebuild transition …for security
we have made significant progress:
a country after three decades of tyranny is rebuilding
while war is Our progress
better for citizens.
security our nations. As German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder said the vested interest of Germany, Forces.
We have made gains of forces.
terrorist campaign Operation Lightning – led to the capture of hundreds of suspected free people everywhere, their own countrymen – and we are helping assume those duties.
progress significant – and we have a clear path forward. To complete the mission, we will continue to hunt down
mission, we will prevent turning Iraq into – a safe haven
our friends. mission is to a nation that can defend itself.
So our strategy going forward has both a military track and a political track.
our military is to find the terrorists – that is why we are the offense.
we pursue our military Security Forces can defend and fight on their own.
Our strategy can be summed up this way: stand up, stand down.
we have a lot more work to do. Today Security Forces are different
levels of readiness are capable of taking terrorists and insurgents
A larger number can plan and execute terrorist operations with Coalition support.
The rest are forming and not yet ready to participate fully .
Our task is to make the units fully capable and independent. We are building up Security Forces as quickly as possible, so they can defeat
Our Coalition is considerable
resources and manpower critical Thousands of troops are training and equipping
Security Forces. establishing a military academy to train the next generation
contributing troops to the training mission.
Army and Police are being trained by personnel working toward a objective: defend itself, defeat its enemies,
taking three new steps:
First, units. teams are conducting operations. operations are giving a chance to experience how the most professional armed forces in the world operate
Second, we are embedding Teams� inside These teams
live, work, and fight together with their comrades. Under command, they are providing advice and assistance to forces during operations. with important skills – such as urban combat, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance techniques.
Third, we are working with the Interior and Defense to improve their capabilities to coordinate anti-terrorist operations. We are helping them develop command and control. We are also providing them with military training, so new leaders can more effectively manage their forces in the fight .
The new Security Forces are proving their courage every day.
Security Forces have given lives in the line of duty. more have stepped forward, and are now in training to serve
our mission is to train them so they can fight
I recognize that Americans want our troops to come home
a deadline for withdrawing would be a serious mistake.
need to know we are serious about the mission
they are the enemy – who would know that all they have to do is to wait us out.
We will stay in Iraq.
Some Americans is so important,
Americans undermine our strategy
we intend to stay forever – we are in fact working for the day we determine the right force level,
I will be guided by the sober military leaders.
The other critical element of our strategy is to ensure that the hopes expressed at the polls are translated into a decades of tyranny and oppression. Under the regime
brutally oppressed – the vast majority also denied their basic rights while regime officials enjoyed the privileges of unchecked power.
The challenge is to put this past behind to build a new
They are building the institutions f or speech, assembly, religion,
Transitional National Ass.
The next step is to write a good constitution that enshrines permanent law.
The Assembly to expand its constitutional drafting to include more who opposed the process – and that is essential to future.
After a constitution is written, the will have a chance to vote If approved
a new government under new, permanent constitution.
progress is real permanent, more will join the process.
military can step forward with intelligence to defeat enemies of a free. The combination of political and military reform will lay a solid foundation
effects are being felt beyond borders.
Before secretly pursuing nuclear weapons Today chemical and nuclear weapons programs.
broader people are claiming their freedom. In the last months,
Our strategy to defend ourselves and spread is working. The rise is vital
the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of murder – and make our Nation
We have more work to do,
test America’s resolve.
We are fighting men with blind hatred – and armed with lethal weapons – who are capable of any atrocity.
wear no uniform; respect no laws of warfare or morality. Take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.
They will fail. do not understand do not falter under threat – allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.
America and our friends are in a conflict that demands much. It demands the fighting it demands the fastness and it demands perseverance. We accept these burdens – because we know what is at stake. We fight today, the hope of freedom in a vial world –
and the rise of will be the ultimate triumph
radicalism and terror. we fight today to attack our country and kill our citizens –
… we will fight across the world – and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.
our desperate fight to the darkest days of a Civil War, to the hard-fought battles
tyranny in the 20th Century, there were many chances
our nerve, our way
. Americans have always held firm,
we have always believed in certain truths.
evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike
ideal human is to us special the ideal is worth defending.
The people behind you. Next week, has an opportunity to make sure that is felt by every man, across the world.
The Department of Defense has a site – You can go there to learn about private efforts in your own community. At this time when we celebrate, let us stand men.
June 29th, 2005 at 4:07 amI thank our military – the burden of war falls on you. In this war, we have lost good women who left our shores and did not live.
I have been inspired by such great loss.
struggle is to complete the mission.
I thank those of you who have re-enlisted in an hour . And to those watching tonight, there is no service in our Forces. We live because every generation has produced
serve a cause great. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place
the history of this period is written, will be remembered as turning points in the story.
we would prevail.
Well, it has been prevailing.
Our enemies are brutal – but they are no match for US.
Thank you.
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It seems to me I’ve heard all this bullshit from Bush before.
June 29th, 2005 at 5:43 amThe “Bush Plan” (otherwise known as the Cheney, Rove, Bush daddy, Rumsfeld,etc., etc.,the real “leaders”) … for Iraq, is to turn over Iraq to the U.N. once they get their man (John Bolton) in… BUT.. keeping “control” physically by our military (”16? ” permanent bases)…and financially by the Cheney group… of the oil wells and production. Control of the oil and its “power” will never be released… the average American will never see a “benefit” and our military are being sacrificed for $$$ and power.
psv
June 29th, 2005 at 7:31 amSame Old Shit, they would be better off with re-runs of Hee Haw…Have to protect women and children from terrorists..We did good, Bunker Busters, Napalm, De-pleted Uranium… Its no longer Smoke and Mirrors, just flat out lies, corruption and deception. Accountability and credibility has flown right out the window. To believe ANYTHING that this corrupt morally bankrupt regime says makes US as bad as they are. By the way saying that 58% of Americans voted for this Village Idiot when it is widely known that two elections were stolen by less than honorable means only helps further the lie.
June 29th, 2005 at 7:31 amThe part that upset me the most was that he had a captive audience, AGAIN. Even when he had the captive audience he was only interupted by applause once and that was started by a White House staffer.
It would seem to me that in the past whenever a President has had a grave matter to discuss with the American people, he spoke directly into the camera from the Oval Office. I remember Pres. Kennedy regarding the Bay of Pigs. Who could forget Johnson regarding Vietnam. What about Nixon with Watergate. Even Ronnie used his acting skills and looked directly into the camera. Certainly Bill looked at the camera when “I did not have sex with that woman.” Not so for Bush 43. Makes me doubt his sincerely even more.
June 29th, 2005 at 7:43 amI have to admit that I didn’t watch “President” Bush’s speech (6/28/05). Any time I see that man or any other of his partners in crime desperately trying to justify this war on television it literally makes me want to vomit. For this man to go on t.v. and still be moronic enough to continue the 9/11-Iraqi fable is stupidity of the highest magnitude. After all that’s been written and reported proving beyond any doubt the Saddam Hussein had no part in the attacks, that there are still people in this country who believe this tripe is unbelievable. From the forged documents of the Niger/uranium sale to the phantom meeting in Prague between Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence to the “Downing Street Minutes” all signs point to an administration that are a bunch of corrupt, lying, self-serving criminals. Wake up America, this war was started for nothing more that to fulfill the neo-cons wet dreams of dominating Middle East oil and to reward the big corporations that fund this regime. Books by Richard Clarke and Ron Suskind clearly show that BushCo never intended on pursuing a “war on terror” and in fact ignored terrorism until it happened here. Then they callously used the attacks to further an agenda that had been years in the planning! If anyone with an I.Q. higher than their shoe size had been listening, they would have known Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Richard Pearle and others had been schemeing for years to do exactly what is being done today under the completely false guise of “spreading democracy and freedom”. There was no link between bin Laden and Saddam, the were no WMD’s, Iraq was not a threat to this country or any other country. Saddam was indeed a brutal, murderous dictator. But he was the same brutal, murderous dictator that our government funded and supplied for decades. The gas he used on his own people was sold to him by American companies. And this government still supports dictators and despots in other countries. 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and yet this administration has yet to demand and in fact helped thwart any serious investigation into Saudi involvement in the attacks, why is that? Why were Saudi citizens and members of the bin Laden family allowed to fly out of this country without being asked a single question, when American airspace was essentially shut down? We may never know who authorized those flights because no one in this administration takes responsibility for anything. The insurgency our troops are fighting in Iraq today did not exist until after the U.S. and the “coalition of coerced and bribed” invaded. And for a war that was supposed to be such a cakewalk, the reality is now that the cost in both lives and money is staggering. Our credibility in the world is damaged to the point, where, if and when this country does face a catastrophic and imminent threat, our former allies will see us as the “little boy who cried wolf”.
June 29th, 2005 at 8:40 amFront line of the war on terror? Just a few hundred foreign terrorist in Iraq Bush admits in his speech. Now compare that to the size of the home grown insurgency that resist Bush’s invasion & occupation. We were told initially a few dead enders, then a couple thousand followed by 20,000 and lately the term applied has been unknowable & growing.
This was a lame attempt to bait & switch the American people.
How dare this liar morph 9/11 into his war of choice under false pretenses after the 9/11 Commission debunked any Iraqi connection to 9/11. In fact, Bush himself stated several times in the recent past that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
Don’t tell me that the U.S. military couldn’t handle a few hundred foreigners. I find Bush’s rhetoric insulting & his comments do a disservice to the soldiers who are engaged in the very real war that Bush started.
Where were the apologies for Cheney’s “last throes” comments or Condi’s “freedom is on the march” comments? Why didn’t he explain why he negotiates with the so called terrorist behind the collective backs of America while claiming that we don’t negotiate with terrorist? He lumped the insurgents in with the terrorist in his speech and said that they must be totally defeated. He blew a golden opportunity to make a distinction that would allow the insurgency to save face & reduce the violence.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:42 amOh well, see that most are watching the puppet (Bush). Look to the puppet master than maybe you can crawl out of your little shells and see the truth behind the big picture. All this about how great America is and was. Look at our history, lot of sadness for most here, except the elite familes. Oh I forgot you make 25,000 and own a trailer house on a mudd ridden pond with an apple tree. Well to most around the world that would be rich, shows how the puppet has done his job for the puppet master. Slam that gun in your kids hand, put him on a plane and send him on over to Iraq in the name of freedom.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:42 amMine’s a tale that can’t be told,
My freedom I hold dear;
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air,
T’was in the darkest depths of mordor
I met a girl so fair,
But gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.
Her, her….yea.
Ain’t nothing I can do, no.
Ramble on,
June 29th, 2005 at 9:58 amAnd now’s the time, the time is now
To sing my song.
I’m goin’ ’round the world…ramblin….
Ramble on ramble on ramble on ramble on ramble on…..
Iraq remains a sideshow, irrelevant to the main game of terrorism. Sadly, US troops are being sandwiched in a civil war. It is anyone’s guess how this mess will sort itself out.
Meanwhile… the Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan and the duplicitous Musharraf remains in Pakistan, the epicentre of word terrorism. Musharraf, like Sharon, is playing the USA for a sucker. If Musharraf gets knocked off by an assassin’s bullet or bomb, we could find ourselves with a government of militant Islam armed with nuclear technology. If that happens (Dick Clarke in his book says it could happen by 2007) things could get really interesting.
Osama bin Laden must be well down his wish list, thanks to GWB.
June 29th, 2005 at 11:03 amIf the rightwing didn’t control Congress, Bush would have been impeached already.
June 29th, 2005 at 11:32 amOk, Now that you all have whined about Bush and company for the umpteenth time, when are you going to DO something about it? How about starting with bombarding your representatives with a CONSTANT barrage of calls and emails for impeachment until you achieve regime change in THIS country!
June 29th, 2005 at 11:39 amFunny. For all intents and purposes, Saddam Hussein was a target for the same terrorists that are now causing our young men and women to fight and die in Iraq (not even close to funny). If I recall correctly, Al Qaida wanted Saddam’s head on a stick because he was a secular infidel. Funny.
June 29th, 2005 at 12:04 pmIt seems to me that when Saddam was in power, the most we had to fear from Iraq was impotent rhetoric and backdoor oil deals. Now Saddam is gone and we have some very potent rhetoric backed by very real violence. Perhaps the oil deals, backdoor or up front, are worth it to some. Not for me. Let’s get our sons and daughters out of there.
Please Impeach bush and cheney now.
June 29th, 2005 at 12:07 pmAll great comments but I fail to read where anyone has figured out what the end game is. Ultimately it boils down to securing caspian sea oil and bringing it to the gulf through afghanistan and Iraq. Why the war? Its not a war. Its a long term occupation to make sure the Chinese or Russians don’t control this last reserve of oil. Terrorism, WMD’s are as you all say a joke. But why the elaborate joke? Its not zionism or stupidity or neocons its simply cheap energy. Why do you think China put in a bid for Unocal? Remember what happened to oil prices when the japanese economy reemerged and started to compete for oil and gas. With china now emerging, our only play here was to secure the oil fields and a proper pipe to the gulf. Think about that when you fire up your “25 foot long diesel family pickup”.
June 29th, 2005 at 12:14 pmThank the Powers That Be, the American People are finally waking up! These comments, especially TigerWoman’s about bombarding our representatives with demands for impeachment, make more sense than anything Chimp Boy has spewed thus far. We will be doing precisely that and hope that others will follow suit. The common folk own America, at least in theory, therefore we should not be led around as blind imbeciles. Free-thinkers and independent progressives (of ALL political persuasions) need to unite and keep our freedom of speech and our supposedly free press out of the control of this Most Dangerous Regime… Oh yeah, kill your television and pay attention to what is really happening!
June 29th, 2005 at 12:44 pmALL THIS TALKING AND NOT ONE COMMON VOICE!
How can we ever take back our country if we can’t even agree on a way to get this guy out of office. I say we organized protests and marches on 1400 pennsylvania until we get an impeachment proceeding.
if everyone still wants Bush as President after all the dirty lies he has told, and all of his dirty laundry waved in the public, then fine keep him. My guess is, we just have to get it started, start the formal inquiry, call for his impeachment.
SOMEONE SETUP THE DAMN WEBSITE ALREADY!
June 29th, 2005 at 12:54 pmWhat a target-rich speech, I hardly know where to begin. One thing that struck me was when President Gorge said that he had embedded Coalition transition people inside iraqis, it sounded a lot like a fiendish human experiment. Which is, of course, a real analogy for Iraq. It is a horrifying, nauseating triumph of ego over humanity. Bush claims to be a Christian, yet he has no compassion for the men and women who have been slaughtered in Iraq because they were in the wrong place and time.
He has condemned our service people to suffer terribly from radiation sickness due to depleted uranium weapons and anthrax vaccines that were inadequately tested after being “strengthened” by suggestions from that famous medical authority “Dick Cheney” and the addition of squalene and more virulent strains of anthrax following his comments seems to be making a large number of the troops sick by cratering their immune systems.
This is worse than Hitler attacking Russia in the winter, because the problems aren’t going to be seasonal, they will be perpetual. Having stripped Iraq of its assets and money and given those to his buddies, donors and family, Bush has also poisoned the air, earth and water of Iraq with radiation from depleted uranium. This is genocide pure and simple. Why wouldn’t the Iraqis fight? They have nothing left to lose. Their future is already suspect and Bush has proven worse than Hussein. Of course they’re going to fight.
Is this going to be really really really hard work? No, it is going to be impossible for the reasons mentioned above.
Another stupid non-reality based speech from der Fuhrer of Folly, the President of Pimp, GW, Gannon is MY BULLDOG, Bush. I am disgusted and repulsed. How much longer are we going to put up with this?
madame karnak
June 29th, 2005 at 1:04 pmAlrighty children, now that we have whined and cried (see #81 – Luv ya Tigerlady) that the big bad bush has lied, what are we going to do about it?
Folks this is our country, liberals and concervatives, it’s going to hell. What are we going to do?
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
To many have sacrificed so much in life, money, and personal liberties, so that we can bitch.
The least we can do is fight back and save this country!
June 29th, 2005 at 1:25 pmTO TIGERWOMAN,
I have signed all the petitions. I have e-mailed my Congressmen and Senators. I have written letters to editors of various newspapers and made phone calls to any media organization that would listen. As long as the Republicans control both houses of Congress and believe that lying about a blow job is an impeachable offense and lying to start a war isn’t, what more would you suggest? I, for one, look forward to the mid-term elections in ‘06, if the neo-cons lose their majority then maybe, just maybe we can indict these idiots who have hijacked a national tragedy for their own political gain. So all we have for now is websites like this to post to. The movement sure seems to be growing.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:15 pmRound up every asshole who voted for this murderer; this criminal; this terrorist; and ship them off to Iraq. People are so stupid it pains me. Show them a circle and tell them it’s a square, and they believe it is, indeed, a square.
Connect the dots, you stupid Americans, and wake up.
People of the United States will not be free until the last Democrat is strangled to death with the entrails of the last Republican.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:28 pmhow about joining http://www.impeachbush.org and getting involved with the impeachment rally scheduled for September 24, 2005. The site also carries imbeach bush bumper stickers, lawn signs, etc. It’s a start. Use your voice.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:31 pmOh yes–put an “Impeach Bush!” bumper sticker on my vehicle, so the psycho Bush-loving theocracy freaks feel compelled to drag their key across it.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:40 pmDear citizens, cannot you perceive from Big Leader’s speech that The War Is Not Meant To Be Won, It Is Meant To Be Continuous. Fair Oceana, your armies are on the front line against Evil Eurasia, who forced us to attack first, even before war was declared (this will be corrected in the next re-write of history.) It is waged against shadows that have nothing to surrender but their lives, and so we shall go on accepting their surrenders continuously forever. Thus, you are either with us in this endless war, or you are against us and your name will be tarred, and your past rewritten, as with the ‘terrorist dissembler and traitor’ Kerry. Big Leader and his minions will watch over you with intruding care, more and more and more and more. You will not have to take resposibility for the war-necessary atrocities done in your name. You will not need to remember the million children who died in Iraq during its economic siege, nor the millions more dying every year everywhere. Soon you will not need to even vote, as the voting machines will do this for you. The might of our military-industrial complex will protect you, and you must be prepared to pay very, very much for it. Big Leader may even allow you to continue to eat, so long as you go along to get along. Haven’t you heard from the lips of Big Leader, War IS Peace, and he is a Peacemaker, just like the gun. So forget about the destruction of the American Way of equality, justice, peace, fairness, community, the four freedoms, hopefulness and helpfulness. That was a dream of just some founding fathers who stupidly did not care about money and power (they detached themselves from connection with the most powerful nation of the time), and were against foreign wars of choice when they set up a government “of, for and by the people” (Big Leader would say, ‘what commie crap.’) Big Leader would call these misguided national founders “anti-religous liberal do-gooder poofs, that spinelessly refused to compensate their landlord, King George, for property they stole from him.” Forget about an American Civil War waged by the Union against the ideas of Absolute Property Rights and Unfettered Captailism, as embodied in human slavery and ’state’s rights’… because Big Leader says these policies are what we need now. Forget about asking, “what you can do for your countrymen of all nations, and not what countrymen of all nations can do for you.” That is not the Plan, vetted by your Betters in the Corporate Oligarchy. Trust them. If people can’t or won’t pay, kill’em or let’em die. Forget about Big Leader’s “Base-Minions” sowing the corruption and greed ruining the American economy, and threatening the life on this Earth itself. Forget all that. You have a Big War of scary monsters to worry about, constantly, and Big Leader will not ‘cut and run,’ because that would ruin his plans. He will ’stay the course’ and ‘pay any price’ because He wants you to live in a State of fear and anxiety, which serves his political ends. (Do not think he will pay any price for you though, you can sink or swim on your damn own! He Is cutting and running from the welfare of the American people.) As self-evident in Big Leader’s speech, you are now all citizens of new Oceana, and Big Leader has a Secret Plan to Win the War. So he Orders you to support your armies fighting in Eurasia for the next decade or so. Or you may be arrested, and sent to Gitmo, for your own sake, and that of the ruling class of Oceana. (With apologies to George Orwell.)
June 29th, 2005 at 2:51 pmWell, I did not expect any new info from this speech and was not surprised. Having served in Iraq for 6 months last year I don’t support pulling out now. It’s much more complicated than anyone back here knows. I wish we could have prosecuted the war differently, but the bottom line is we are making a difference over there and so many of the Iraqis I met begged me to let people know that they appreciate our help… they want to get rid of the religious fanatics and build a better country.
June 29th, 2005 at 3:40 pm“And to those watching tonight who are considering a military career, there is no higher calling than service in our Armed Forces.�
Doesn’t this sound retarded to anybody else?
The military is supposed to protect society, so why is the military the most important element of society? To protect itself? I think it is obvious that there are more important elements (or higher callings) of the country that the soldiers are paid to protect.
June 29th, 2005 at 5:01 pm“Our freedom which has been entrusted to us in a special way.�
What special way? The insurgency led such terrorists as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, George Roberts Clark and Ethan Allen?
No?
Isn’t he just euphemistically saying freedom is our God-given right?
June 29th, 2005 at 5:11 pmI am constantly reminded of Brian asking Peter, “Do you even listen to yourself when you talk?” Great speech. As long as he keeps running his mouth, I’ll keep feeling secure about my position against him. Instead of being shaken by the arguments of Bush fans, I can pity them.
June 29th, 2005 at 5:23 pm#21 – Karin, Georgie’s shifty eyes were the first things that put me off. He throws out a line, looks around at the crowd, and then smirks. Yep, they bought that one, here’s another…
I haven’t seen that anyone has been talking about the one line that had me yelling at the TV — “It was worth it.” If I’d had a gun, we’d be watching the radio. Did he run that one by the 1700+ families of our Iraq dead? Shame on him.
June 29th, 2005 at 7:04 pmWhat a sad bunch of angry people on this site. Lets just withdraw and wait to be attacked again. Bin Laden is not the head of the snake he is just the current spokesman. We are drawing out terrorists from the entire middle east and fignting them in Iraq. Would you prefer we wait until they come to us and fight them here? Idiots.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:18 pm#43, Jim:
You say we liberals just hate Bush. Okay, you’re right about that; many liberals do. Why do you suppose that is? Remember that hate follows anger which follows fear.
Do you seriously believe that all the liberals (and increasing numbers of conservatives) merely wake one morning, bored, and say, “Oh, I think I’ll start to hate the president today?” You can’t seriously believe that ANYone in this country WANTS to hate the president? It’s nearly stupefying to hate the president; no one wants that, don’t you agree?
You say we should be glad to have such a great leader in times like this. Of course all Americans would be glad to have a great leader … in any time.
I have asked countless Republicans to tell my why they support Bush. Not one of them has given me a real answer. They trail off with, ‘oh, you know, he’s a real Christian, he believes in the family, he wants what’s best for us,” and so forth.
So, let’s try this from another angle. Let me state that my values include extensive civil liberties, peace, honesty, kindness, charity, local government as opposed to a very strong central government, high educational priorities for all our children, affordable health care for all our citizens, individual state’s rights, freedom to worship where and how we choose, and cleaning up our own streets before we range far afield, among others. I believe we would be hard pressed to find anyone in this country who would not agree with those values.
Please tell me how the current administration’s policies work toward those ends.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:46 pmAs the mother of a soldier, who’s about to return for his second full year in Iraq, I sat and listened to that speech last night, just as a starving woman would look at a meal, hoping and listening and hoping and listening for something I could hold onto for hope. I was extremely crushed. I thought maybe it was just me. I see now by surfing tonight, that it wasn’t. (Wouldn’t know it by the mainstream news of course.) Not one itty bitty ounce of new news or talk of new/better plans. I love the buildup from the Whitehouse – “he’ll be very specific” ha. I can’t figure out what audience they thought might watch that and buy it all for the 115th time….amazes me.
Not only are we seeing doom for years to come in Afganistan and Iraq, why isn’t there more talk about what is being done, as we speak, in preparation for invading Iran??? You think it’s a mess now??? We’re at the DSM phase in Iran, things are secretly already in motion, should be out in the corporate news by first of next year when it’s leaked….. Just Google now.
I have an 18-yr old son too, how many more occupations before he’s forced to join a service and board the plane? Can’t be many more, we’re too short now. My son, about to return to Iraq, will be caught under his “agreement” signed with the Army, for almost a full year past when the “agreement” signed with the Army stated he would be….from the stop-loss order (backdoor draft). By then, will the regime have that extended until say, oh, indefinite?
My son worked 12 hours on and 12 hours off in Iraq for WEEKS straight without one day off constantly last year, driving around Ramadi and Fallujah, in unarmored humvees. I’m proud as hell of what he accomplished under unimaginable conditions. I’m proud as hell of them all.
From an International hearing I saw on C-SPAN yesterday morning, the contracted support in Iraq was/is feeding them food that’s up to a year past the expiration date, etc. etc. A year! Will the budget do away with ALL days off this next deployment? Will they shoot him after he dies from food poisoning and tell me he died a brave hero in a galliant battle? It’s all so unbelievable and wrong.
I’m scared as hell.
A Soldier’s Mom
June 29th, 2005 at 9:51 pmIf invading Iran is what it is going to take to provide a safer world for my kids I’m all for it. If you think Sept 11 was bad wait until they use a nuke.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:57 pmDid anyone else notice that Bushboy would turn his note pages but never looked at them??? Not once did I see him read from his notes, yet he continued flipping those pages…right on cue.
Yeppers…this was probably the BEST speech Bushboy has made to date — no errors, stammerings, faux pas’, complete and yet with absolutely no substance or credibility. He continued to give that talk just like it was rehearsed and, no doubt in my mind, cued word for word by a hidden mic. He is still the puppet given a script by Roveboy.
Now that I’ve critiqued his intelligence, on to the bigger issues. Here’s a few comments:
Around 1984 I attended an oil conference with speakers from several oil companies. One speaker I will never forget was a retired VP from Chevron. He said WWIII would be over “mineral wars” disguised as “religious wars.” I’d say its more than that. It’s about oil, power, fear, imminent worldwide financial collapse, global dominance, cowardice, racism, religion, old wounds and what happens when a stupid, social psychopath “Napoleonic” rich kid gets the opportunity of a lifetime to prove his daddy is wrong about him. The sick rich kid falls in cahoots with the smarter, sicker bad guys, and the rest is a nightmare we are all living in.
There are many who claim Roveboy and others in the pack are pulling off the most ingenious plot for global dominion. I disagree. Although we have bigger, more sophisticated weaponry and operations, they haven’t done anything that wasn’t already done by Caeser, Napoleon, Hitler and all other conquering empires that eventually fell to ruin. Actually, I believe Roveboy and some of the crew have actually read the dastardly plots of these evil men and figured they could carry it off better. We see it day after day.
Okay, I know that the Iraq War is the most horrendous act America has perpetrated on an innocent people. I am deeply ashamed of this and am very pained by it every single day. Pained not for America, but for Iraq and the people and their homeland we have killed, maimed and destroyed.
But I think we should be looking at BushCo’s implication in 911 along with the DSM issue. Evidence weighs heavily that BushCo downed the WTC buildings and blamed it on Iraq as a scapegoat. This tactic of attacking one’s own country by a leader is as old as time…
At the same time America was attacked from within, we need to consider another shocker — that 911 was supposed to be a military coup d’etat. Incomplete, the agenda still stands for the ultimate destruction of national sovereignty and a global government. To try one more time, martial law will have to be imposed in the U.S. As it is, secret camps have been established around the country to hold dissenters (concentration camps). For all those still sleepwalking, concerned with the plastic surgery, and feeling safe and secure with the latest Paris Hilton and MJ news, and believing it can’t happen here, you’re in for a wake-up call…
The Saudi Oil Bombshell http://www.buzzflash.com/mediawatch/05/06/wmw05076.html is another issue to deal with. As we let the oilmongers push and pull us and we are concerned about rising oil prices, this bombshell will further take us spiraling down faster.
The reward for us sheople in America for allowing the takeover of our country and for caring little about the plight of the Iraqis and other helpless people around the world will be the total collapse of our country, terrorism at home by our government and abroad, and conditions not too unlike those in other countries we have little pity for.
It is clear to me the direction BushCo is going. It should be very clear to you too. Together with the mainstream media propaganda, social insecurity, rush-through legislature (like the rush-through Iraq War), eminent domain rule over home ownership, government unaccountable and gone wild with the help of carefully selected justices, we should all be very afraid…
The answer…
As #90 Tigerwoman said, get INVOLVED. Sign petitions, write eletters and letters, make those phone calls to your representatives, congressmen and senators. Engage in serious, calm discussions with your family and friends. Tell them what you know. Shake them up with the facts. Let them know this isn’t about a political party, it’s about survival and justice.
A starting point is to get on every mailing list. Every petition that comes your way that agrees with your position, SIGN IT. I was skeptical at first, but I have learned these petitions and writing to my representatives WORKS. Many times a rep will respond (form letter) that they do not support my petition, thank you very much. But many times, I find they are in agreement. To my surprise, every now and then an issue I support defeats the opposition! So never think your voice is too small or ineffective. A letter from the heart, sent with respect, will most likely be read and may be considered.
Our nation and the world is at a grave turning point. How we react to this rogue government that cares nothing for human lives here or abroad, will determine the fate or destiny of the world.
What should we be doing and push for?
- Immediate withdrawal from Iraq
- Impeachment of BushCo and bring them up to trial for
war crimes – get them out of office now!
- Reparations to Iraqis through a worldwide effort
- Cease all further trumped up suspicions of Iran, Syria,
Korea or any other country that has something we want.
As it is, Iran is already being attacked, unbeknownst
to the world.
- Cease our support of and alignment with Israel. They will
be our downfall. Once they are done with us, they will
turn on us too. Evil is as evil does. Go figure…
- Throw out Diebold as our voting machine. Bring honor,
democracy, justice and legality to America (have we ever
had it?)
- Do all we can to help other countries without any agenda
on our part.
- Stop trying to Christianize the world. Muslims, Buddhists
and all other religions are just as good as ours. As it
is, they are looking even better than ours from the
terrorist actions of America…
- Support and purchase alternative energy sources for oil,
gas, electricity (we are currently installing solar
panels). Stop depending on government and corporate
America as much as possible.
- Spend more quality time with your family. Games,
discussions, decent upbringing, bike rides and the like
will do more for you, your family and the world rather
than raising kids on video games and Disneyland.
- Select your mate carefully, just as you should your
elected officials, clergy, friends and employer. Who you
align with says much about your character and affects the
lives of all those you interact with sending a ripple
effect throughout the world.
We know what we have to do. Our very lives depend on it.
Let’s get BUSY!
June 29th, 2005 at 10:00 pmScott, no disrespect intended, honest, but you haven’t been paying attention, have you? Argh.
A Soldier’s Mom
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June 29th, 2005 at 10:41 pmI would like to say that I very much agree with post number 58. I am not an American but as anyone who has been following world events even moderatly can see…America is having its life and its beauty sucked out of it. America has never been perfect, I dont believe any country ever has but the one thing America always had going for it was its ideals. Ideals that not every country could argue they held as dear. And now Bush has destroyed the very thing that made your country great. Never again will anyone anywhere trust American motives which some may argue they never had but by god Bush has done his best to prove to every non-american in the rest of the world why America should be distrusted and fought at every turn.
June 30th, 2005 at 2:58 amI fear that this is it for America. If Bush is not dealt with, if there is not an abrupt change of direction with your next president I truly believe that it is the begining of the end. It is time for the true American patriots to stand up. There was a time in the past when just complaining about the British was not cutting it. I fear the time has come where if you really love your country the time for simply complaining about Bush has come to an end. Bush needs to know that what he has done to your wonderful country is shameful. He needs to know that he himself is truly the man who destroyed America. Osama is laughing it up in a cave somewhere, could he have ever imagined how successful his attack on the world trade center towers would be? Could he have ever imagined that it would be the US president himself who would put the wheels in motion of the destruction of one of the few countries that ever offered the world hope.
It is time for the talk to stop. If you are a true american its time to take it to the streets! Dont bitch that the media wont cover your demonstrations! DEMONSTRATE! Give the media no goddamn choice but to report how Americans really feel about Bush
Comment number 94 by Frederick Horn  June 29, 2005 @ 2:51 pm
Sir i admire your insight and say Bavo as you tell it as it is.
June 30th, 2005 at 4:28 amI have grown up in the most militaristic country in the world the U.S.S.R. had nothing on this country.
Dear Americans,
Tricked into war eh ? Just like you landed in Normandie to fight Nazi’s ? Or was it because the Soviets were going to “free” europe from the Nazi’s singlehanded, and would leave no business partner for the US?
Now you’re making name and fame as the warloving, racist, torturing, concentration camp guards and oilthieves of the world. Egoists counting only your own dead suckers who went to this obviously illegal war. Bribing and persuading other nations to be your allies.(offered 16 billion dollars to Turkey to use their army bases but rejected by the Turkish people (90%) in a referendum . Threathening Syria, Iran and North Korea with an invasion. Like you were not the sole country that deliberatly murdered>>200.000 civillians in Japan (speaking about an act of terrorism).
With Bill Clinton we had peace, only scandal he caused was with Lewinsky, but that was just a good innocent laugh for the world.
Oke go ahead and follow your leader: an order is an order and some day you end up worse then Nazi and Japanese warcriminals, and I believe that is why you don’t want to be subject to the The Hague tribunal.
Only hope I’ve got is that the world will see that it was all planned in advance including 9/11/2001. But maybe Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are going to succeed in creating their new worldorder, because they created two camps that don’t speak each others language which is in favor of your administrations politics.
Heil Bush..
June 30th, 2005 at 10:00 amTo all the non-Americans that have posted here I want to say thank you for caring and trying to explain to the people that believe that it’s all about politics, left v. right, etc. that there is sooo much more at stake here. I also ask that all of you please join us in fighting (I know many in the world protested the invasion of Iraq but we need more help) this most corrupt and evil government. Talk to the Americans that you encounter and let them know, as you did here, in no uncertain terms that it is as you describe. Let them know that they have been misled, misinformed, blatantly lied to. I believe that many (at least the ones that can be persuaded) Americans will take your words seriously as they perhaps recognize that an opinion from the outside may be less influenced by the petty matters that stand between left and right in America. We will continue to fight and write and hopefully take to the streets en masse, but we need the help of the rest of the world to make the serious changes that are necessary happen.
June 30th, 2005 at 11:02 amIt’s time for all true Americans to hop on the impeachment bandwagon, send the twit and his minions to jail, apologize, and ask the international community to help us clean up Prince Bush’s mess.
June 30th, 2005 at 6:10 pm112. Comment by Tony
AMEN!!!
June 30th, 2005 at 8:21 pmyall are all freakin idiots..i hate liberals..george bush is the best president that we have EVER had. yall pussys just want to sit around after we were attacked and not worry about it.. we did what needed to be done and are continuing to fight a war worth fighting for. the iraqis are appreciative of what we are doing and by saying the stuff that yall say it really discourages our troops that our fighting for America’s safety. im tired of hearing all of yall people whine about president bush and not do anything about it. yall all talk bad about him yet he is the one keeping YOU safe from the terrorist of other nations as well as our own
June 30th, 2005 at 9:11 pmjared, yall sure yall know what you’re talking about? Sure sounds as if yall have been sipping from the fountain of misinformation. I think yall better start to do a little homework if you want to come in here calling people pussy or accusing folks of not supporting troops. The best way yall could support them would be to bring them the fvck home.
June 30th, 2005 at 9:49 pmOtherwise yall might want to shut up and head down to the local recruitment office and sign yourself up to go and fight in the country that HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11 when we invaded. Get a clue.
jay i am going into the service to let you know and they might not have had anything to do with 9/11 but this is the war on terror..not the war on the people who attacked us on 9/11
June 30th, 2005 at 10:14 pmjared,
(clears throat)
Iraq War 101: This is not the “war on terror.” This is a war by terrorists (BushCo) on an innocent country.
BTW, you’re right – this is not a war on the people who attacked us on 9/11. The people who attacked us are our very own loving, caring government.
So yeah, we are now ready to attack Bushco for attacking the American people AND the Iraqis AND the world.
Oh, and another disillusioned Republican has thrown in the towel on “your” president and the party. They’re falling like flies. Again, it’s not about Dems/Libs vs. Repubs. It’s about a handful of outlaw, neo-con, right-wing Repubs who are throwing the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the wind.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:41 pmhttp://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/26/ed.col.chaney.0626.html
jared, best of luck, but I’m thinking that surfing and posting on websites that are decidedly anti-war might not be the best way to motivate yourself. You have to understand that people that oppose this war do it because it’s a big lie not because they want to undermine the troops. I’m pretty sure that most if not all of the people that are here, talking about the issues want our soldiers home not off fighting for a lie. There is nothing more noble than volunteering to fight for your country, but the commander in chief has to hold up his end of the deal and not try to manipulate the citizens and the soldiers. They’ve done that. I wish you only the best of luck if you wind up in harms way.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:42 pman hour of reading comments from uneducated ignorant cowards who are obviously ashamed of and have no use for their birthright. what we are doing in iraq is what america is. we have been, from the beginning of our history, fighters for the rights of freedom. what else is there to be proud of, and what is there that would make one more proud? if we,(our military, our might, our arm ) had sat back like the bunch of you all, you would be sittin’ back smiling with ur freakin’ mouths full of cookies and chips, drinking coca cola and bottled water, and those of us who give a damn about life would be raising the cain. but u know what the world would be saying if that were the case…..they would be shouting, “where the hell is the united states of america?!?!” but as it is, we are exactly where the truth of our american heritage would have us be, and where all the world would expect to see us….. making a way for bullyragged, strongarmed people to wave a flag that stands for liberty….oh yea…. and honor.
June 30th, 2005 at 11:16 pmdonna, your post makes me sad for my country. How can we help you understand? You are so utterly brainwashed that you are repeating the lies of the Bush administration. Please keep reading and searching for the truth, what you believe now is wrong and we need your help to put an end to this war and the madness of killing innocent people. You have access to the internet, research the facts. You may not like what you find but you sure as hell will be angry with the so-called leaders that have lied to you. I’m very sorry.
July 1st, 2005 at 12:27 amRe: Comment 34:
If there is no higher calling than service in our
Armed Forces why didn’t you enlist?
Um, he never got high enough?
This empty hypocritical rhetoric has become common for this
administration but not any less nauseating.
One of my sub-personalities has been projectile-vomiting ever since
Chimpy took the throne.
-F.
July 1st, 2005 at 12:32 am#119 Donna,
Maybe I’m wrong, but you write like a 20-year-old, angry, uneducated woman who leads a sheltered life from reality. If you’re a blue collar worker with a fundamentalist Christian background, you’re the perfect target for Bush. He prefers his supporters dumb and loyal without them knowing why.
After serving 20 years in the military (and currently on standby), raising 3 daughters as a single parent on a limited income as a minority on the rough side of town, all the while going to school at night to get my degree, hardly suggests a coward, wouldn’t you say?
I have a loyalty and pride for our country that someone like you can only imagine. For the right war, for the right reasons, I support defending America. And I’m not alone. Most people who are against this war know the seriousness of it, the risks and ramifications of putting our soldiers on the line, the reputation of America, the terrorism we face on our homeland and, not least, the responsibility of killing over 100,000 innocent Iraqi victims.
Those who shout, “War, War, War!” without understanding previous wars, without having lost a loved one in a war, without having even been to war, without having a conscience or soul to stifle a trigger-happy, bloodthirsty desire to kill an imaginary enemy, deserve the grand experience of grabbing a gun and going on the front lines to defend Bush’s War.
You’re a loose cannon and it’s almost as frightening to think there are many organisms like you who support this illegal war, as knowing we have idiots who run this country.
Shame on you!!! Get an education and then come talk with us. Viet Nam would be a good place to start…
July 1st, 2005 at 2:58 amWe all went to the polls, heard news organizations tell us that exit polls showed Kerry ahead, and they were all wrong. The silent majority does not need to get on silly posts to share their opinion, they know what they know and they speak where it matters, at the polls. The majority of American’s are behind Bush and understand why we’re in Iraq; they don’t complain loudly and they don’t sit around at home completing phone surveys about how they feel about the president. Sorry to break it to you folks, but that’s the truth…So while you are sitting wondering how could Pres. Bush have gotten elected when it seems the whole world hates his guts (via this post here), there’s your answer…We are here, quiet yes, but we vote, we work hard, and we don’t have time to go tit-for-tat with every liberal who thinks he’s nailed the truth! (wish I could stick around and see the response this will generate, but I actually have work to do…).
July 1st, 2005 at 3:15 pm“Skewed” Majority,
Please show us some facts. You continue to say they “know what they know” but you folks hardly ever present any evidence to prove this is a a legal war given by a legal president. Yes, please go to work. For those of us who served in the military, in a war or who have family in the war, or who were killed in war, you will rarely hear support for this fiasco.
BTW, as a retired vet and teacher, I now have the time to reply to forums and blogs. When I worked as a soldier and teacher, I wouldn’t be caught dead on the Internet during work hours. Are you working on government or civilian time? If so, it speaks to your ethics and why you support this war…
Sheople, shame on you for following your leader blindly over the cliff!
Some facts:
Tony Blair Confirms Authenticity of Downing Street – The Prime Minister has confirmed the authenticity of a Downing Street memo in which Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, tells Mr Blair that the Bush administration was “fixing” the intelligence and facts about Saddam Hussein’s regime to back up a decision that had been taken to invade Iraq as early as July 2002.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6736
52 House members file FOIA request seeking documents related to Downing Street minutes – In addition, the Members also formally requested that the House Committees on Judiciary, Armed Services, International Relations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence commence hearings on the Downing Street Minutes.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/52_House_members_file_FOIA_request_seeking_documents_related_to_Downing_Street_minut_0630.html
9/11 – US Complicity: Implausible, or Very Probable? – Questions for the People Who Believe the Official Conspiracy Theory
http://tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_-_us_complicity__implausi.html
Nearly 9,000 U.S. troops dead? A NATIONWIDE CALL FOR INFO FROM SURVIVORS. – Has the Bush administration drastically understated the U.S. military death count by redefining “death”? The following article suggests that it has, and it calls for a nationwide campaign to honor deceased service members by naming and counting them.
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10554
The United States changed its Iraq policy to begin airstrikes months before the official war.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/595
A Zogby poll has found that 42 percent of Americans would favor impeachment proceedings if President Bush misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq. Imagine where that figure will be after the public learns about the Downing Street Minutes!
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/592
The war against veterans – For several years now, the Bush bean counters have been slashing funds for veterans’ medical care. [Where's the love and support???]
July 1st, 2005 at 3:44 pmhttp://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050630/OPINION02/50630004
Where is everyone? Why are we not demanding criminal negiligence charges for Bush’s role in Mike Brown as head of FEMA? His cronyism has not only become despicable, it has become murderous! Innocent lives have been lost because there was another deceitful incompetent, at the helm! God, isn’t one enough!
And to the religious right who support Bush: “ye shall know them by their fruits.”
September 15th, 2005 at 7:44 pmYou are funny. Bush is just doing what Clinton and a whole bunch of Democrats suggested back in 1998. Go ahead…look it up if you dare. They all wanted to remove Saddam from power, Bush just had the balls to actually do it. You are naive if you think Iraq was no threat to the US. We are not invincible. 9/11 proved that…that is why you morons get so upset when Bush mentions 9/11, because you know deep down inside that 9/11 was proof to the world that the US is not indestructable. Of course, there was proof of that all along..for example, the WTC attack in ‘93, but you liberals would rather forget about that, eh? All you can do is complain about how corrupt Bush is, yet you offer no solutions or rational alternatives of your own. Keep in mind…Democrats had an easier time convincing Democrats that Bush caused a hurricane than John Kerry would make a decent Commander in Chief…oh wait, that’s right…the elections were rigged…LMAO, What a bunch of losers you libs are!
October 7th, 2005 at 2:52 pmJustin, finally, a voice of sensibility and reason. All you libs do is whine and complain and come up with one baseless charge or conspiracy theory after another. It’s so much easier than researching, learning the facts or owning up to your own political party’s loss of touch with reality. I’ve never seen such malcontents. In fact, we happen to love America NOW and think what we are doing is RIGHT, which is to prevent catastrophe from happening before the fact. So really then, if you all are so anti-American, why don’t YOU go start your OWN country — I’d love to watch that experiment unfold. Don’t take the rest of us down with you. I suppose if we did what you all want, bring everyone home and sing songs of love and peace, and then the terrorists capture one of our elementary schools and shoot dozens of children in the back, you’d be the first to be screaming, WHY DIDN’T GEORGE BUSH DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS! “All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing” — I didn’t make that up. You all just want everyone to come home because you don’t have the courage and fortitude it takes to do the hard and couragous thing. Oh, first post, “federoil,” mentioning the hard on, real classy and intelligent, typical of your ilk. I hope you all enjoy listening to each other whine on, never coming up with any viable alternatives perhaps because that would take brain-power and bravery. It’s sooo easy to criticize him — “turn off the sound and watch his eyes laughing” — what lunacy is that??? And I suppose you could do the job much, much better. What hubris and arrogance. You’re going to undermine everything this country stands for if you don’t SHUT UP.
October 7th, 2005 at 8:09 pmI love all you liberal moonbats. Then again, I’m just a red state moron with an IQ of 21. Please continue your pathetic ways, if possible, wear lots of T-shirts with Bush with a Hitler mustache, maybe get some money together and get a TV campaign saying Bush is the biggest terrorist yada yada yada, or maybe the whole 9/11 didn’t happen theory, that one makes you stand-up citizens look especially brilliant. The more Sheehans you can come up with the better, maybe throw in an extra Penn or Moore type for good measure. Thanks for everything you do, it would be really boring without your super intelligent input.
November 18th, 2005 at 2:37 pmLibs tell us we are brainwashed by the Bush Admin.
So, why do they repeat whatever Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, ect. say? Just read these posts. You can see where they get their marching orders from.
Libs tell us we are followers, not leaders. Then why haven’t the Dems come up with one single alternative to our current strategy, other than just to pull out? Lead us out of the darness if you have the winning ideology!
Libs say that Bush is in bed with Big Oil. I don’t think that is true, but what is the diffrence between the corrupting influence of a corperation and outfits like Moveon.org? Is not the Democrative Party beholden to these special interests? The extreme left wing has taken over, and the nutjobs who run sites like this are in the minority in the US. Deal with it.
November 30th, 2005 at 4:01 pmits funny to see every one including me think bush is wrong. not including errigant, or a lier. in one of his speaches he stated that violance is the answer. and its not. why does he have to fight his daddys war? that he also lost. if the people are happy with not being free let them be. they can come here if they wish, right? so if he wants america to be free why does he need to push freedom on iraq? if he doesnt want communism then why is he one of the communist he is hitler rencarnated…WHAT DO YOU THINK? DEAMBV@YAHOO.COM
March 9th, 2006 at 4:02 pmIs there a complete lack of intelligence on the internet forums now? I feel that every single one of you could be classified as mentally retarded due to your choice to be stupid on the subject of freedom. In order to be free, one must “actually” make the effort to do something about tyranny. It seems the only thing you Liberal fanatics can do is stick your head in the sand and wish that the true evil that remains abroad doesn’t come along and give you what you deserve. How pathetic it is to see your complaints of a president who actually cares about America, and the well being of other nations too. It seems that all you can accomplish is spouting out useless rhetoric on such a distorted level that you just can’t use your brain anymore. If you’d quit choking on the crap that comes out of your mouth you might be able to take in the facts of reality, and I don’t mean your artificial version of it either, I mean the actual reality around us. I hope that you will come around some year before you totally destroy America’s freedom and existance. Good luck to all you AntiPatriotic Liberal Nazis
March 14th, 2006 at 5:39 amI’d just like to say that I find it very sad that everyone has to resort to calling each other names. Maybe it’s the binary setup of your electoral system that causes this rift between Democrats and Republicans, but surely you all realize that it accomplishes nothing? Calling people ‘mentally retarded’, ‘moonbats’, ‘followers’, ‘Nazis’, or ‘Anti-American’ gets everyone nowhere… Just because someone is a member of an opposing political party doesn’t mean you should dehumanize them. In general, I’m probably more of a leftist- yet IMO, most of the work my current PM (a Conservative) is doing is fantastic. Don’t you think it would be a lot more productive if you worried more about debating policies, rather than slinging insults at each other?
July 6th, 2006 at 2:01 pmGOD BLESS AMERICA!
Every spinless Democrat that voted for the war should be run out of office.
They all jumped on the patriotic bandwagon when it suited THEIR needs and now change their tune when it does not. COWARDS!
I do think there are terrorists in the world that want to harm us, and I would much rather they be fighting over there than here.
September 8th, 2006 at 1:17 amPatriot.
It is pointless to lecture the anti-war ideologues on patriotism as a great many Americans today are Americans by virtue only of their birth within its geographic and ideological boundaries.
The word “patriot” itself is in many ways self-defeating in the present context as it means “of one’s fathers”. If I were to say that I am of my fathers would be to say that I owe my allegiance to many nations besides America, and, in particular, many nations that were illegally annexed by the U.S.A. through military coups-d’etat.
The word “patriot” is synonymous with the word “nationalist” and is a favorite word for use by some of the world’s most atrocious tyrannies spawned by zealous patriots who fall in behind a flag.
Speaking of which, nationalism is a secular belief for those of you who profess to be patriots and devout members of any religion. Too many confuse nationalism with religious obligation and too many more place nationalism or patriotism before their duties to their faiths. For example, to salute the flag is a paganistic ritual holdover from ancient Rome, just as our American form of government and secular philosophies are holdovers from ancient Rome.
One of the greatest weaknesses of democratic and republican governmental systems is their tendency to slip into tyrannical dictatorships as the natural human tendency is to rally behind a strong, charismatic leader during times of crisis when democratic councils are too unwieldy to commit resources and take action in response to national crisis. At times like these leaders will seek to expand their powers and focus outwards militarily, combatting barbarianism abroad universally. Any student of history can tell you this is true. The problem with this model is that the expansion of powers seldom are relinquished and nationalism is replaced by emperor worship and the founding of lasting imperial dynasties.
And this is ungodly for those of you who profess a mixture of religious ideology and patriotism. The two are not compatible.
Don’t think imperialism can happen here in America? You’re grossly misguided. It already has (with native americans, hawaiians, samoans, filipinos, need i go on?) and now we’re already headed in that direction with even greater rapidity. You just can’t see past the words you’ve been brainwashed to recite: “patriot”, “allegiance”, “duty”, “honor”…
Be on the lookout though. We’re about to butt heads with the rising economic and political force of the European Union that is strongly anti-NATO and pro-Arab and seeks military independence from NATO with its Rapid Response Task Force. Nations from the former Soviet bloc are seeking inclusion in the Union.
Open your eyes. America isn’t the biggest kid on the block anymore. Our civilization is in decline from without and within. Go to war with Europe again if you really want to stay on top.
Dummies.
September 9th, 2006 at 5:46 amPersonal insults (i.e., Bush is stupid, Bush is evil, etc.) is ignorance at its best. What are you accomplishing by calling our president (or anyone else for that matter) names? Do you feel better about yourselves? Instead of spending all your time on the internet posting blogs (which seem to be nothing more than whining complaints and name-calling fests), why don’t you actually go out and make something happen? Help our country with the same problems that you continue to call us out on! People are more concerned with the division between the two political parties than the real issues at hand. Some of us are Republicans (Conservative) and some of us are Democrats (Liberals). But at the end of the day we are all Americans and we have to work together for all of ours benefit. Stop focusing on the past – we can’t go back and change how we went about things (i.e., the Iraq war) – and focus on what we can do in the future.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:55 pmWait did I read that correct , did some one seriously call for the draft too be reinstated ?!??! Damn i’m glad i’m Australian.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:27 amThat was a great speech!
Way to go Mr. President.
I hope the message sinks in for idiots such as Kennedy, Palosi, etc. who are clueless and drunk most the time!
Don Bain
January 10th, 2007 at 8:36 pmEvery time you conservatives call us liberal, as if it were a term of abuse, as if it were some kind of an insult, I take it as a compliment. I am proud to be liberal, to be progressive and forward-thinking, to be skeptical and rational, to be sensible and compassionate. So keep those “insults” coming; they’re like music to the ears of this liberal!
January 11th, 2007 at 1:11 am“We also need to examine ways to mobilize talented American civilians to deploy overseas – where they can help build democratic institutions in communities and nations recovering from war and tyranny.”
Anyone have any idea who or what this is all about?
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