March 21, 2006
Bush Speech and the Press
The White House press, ever more hostile, made statements couched as questions. Questions that were obviously meant to say, "this an unsupportable elective war; we are creating terrorists where there wouldn't have been otherwise; Iraq is now in a civil war and you did it; Iraq did not have WMDs, you lied; we've created another quagmire; American people don't understand why we are there, yadda, yadda.
And then there was this insane question from Helen "over-the-hill-liberal" Thomas and I am paraphrasing, but it went something like this, "Mr. President why are we really in Iraq? Every previously stated reason has been proven untrue!"
(Every reason proven untrue!!!????)
President Bush tried to deflect this question and instead went on to say how vital it is to develope a "democracy in the neighborhood", in a "region that desperately needs moderation"..., spoken in stammering, half sentences and incomplete thoughts, which made his response seem weaker than the point he was trying to make.
My response to Helen would have went..."Helen, I can't believe after all this time, you could ask such an idiotic question, but you did, so let me restate it for you for what must be the tenthousandth time... (insert "Reasons for the War" - read Coffeesnobs new info too, all right here in Post Scripts)
Bush has made two public appeals for Iraq in two days. His message about terrorists in Iraq could be summarized in a few sentences:
"The terrorists haven't given up," "They're tough-minded. They like to kill. There's going to be more tough fighting ahead. … Yet we're making progress, and that's important for the American people to understand." Bush said.
Posted by Post Scripts at March 21, 2006 08:37 AM