Posted on 10/13/2005 11:45:01 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
LOL!! I forgot about THAT one!
Thanks!!!! I love Bush!
I had to change the channel it was so bad. I appreciated the concept and thought to boost morale, but even Tony Snow said this morning that it just came across horribly, he wondered what the President's media people were thinking and that it was obvious both the President and troops seemed uncomfortable. I agree.
How many times has President Reagan turned over in his grave by now, having listened to the prognostications of his son? Just a rough guess will do.
"This is a wonderful historical thing that his happening and I haven't heard much at all about it."
Haven't heard much about his October 6, 2005, speech, either.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/
Here's a good commentary about it from today's Post-Dispatch
POINT OF VIEW: Bush's monumental speech contained hard truths
10/13/2005 By Donald Meissner
Last week, President Bush delivered a monumental speech describing and defending the global war on terror, yet the news media greeted his remarks with a global yawn. A recent Associated Press poll found that Bush's approval rating equals the percentage of Americans who believe the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do: 39 percent. It's no wonder, given that the actual intellectual and ideological debate has been skewed or ignored by the major media outlets.
Would a major address by FDR justifying the war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan have been ignored? What about LBJ rationalizing the carnage inVietnam? The world media and the process of delivering news have changed over the years, but ignoring the president's words in wartime is perilous to our nation.
President Bush described in great detail, with numerous empirical facts and vivid descriptions, the viciousness, tenacity and evil of our enemy. I recommend reading or watching the president's speech at the WhiteHouse.gov web site. For those of you whose antipathy for Dubya prevents doing so, here are a few important sentences from the speech that answer the most important question of this nascent millennium: Why are we at war?
- President Bush:
"Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. . . . This form of radicalism exploits Islam to serve a violent political vision: the establishment, by terrorism and subversion and insurgency, of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom. These extremists distort the idea of jihad into a call for terrorist murder against Christians and Jews and Hindus - and also against Muslims from other traditions, who they regard as heretics. . . . Islamic radicalism is more like a loose network with many branches than an army under a single command. Yet these operatives, fighting on scattered battlefields, share a similar ideology and vision for our world."
The president took pains to quote the words of Abu Musab al-Zaqawi, the beheader, the al-Qaida leader who moved from Afghanistan to Iraq immediately after 9/11 to establish a base and avoid the onslaught against the Taliban.
- President Bush:
"Our enemy is utterly committed. As Zarqawi has vowed, 'We will either achieve victory over the human race or we will pass to the eternal life.' And the civilized world knows very well that other fanatics in history, from Hitler to Stalin to Pol Pot, consumed whole nations in war and genocide before leaving the stage of history. Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously, and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. Defeating the militant network is difficult because it thrives, like a parasite, on the suffering and frustration of others."
These accurate words will be discounted and discarded by the president's enemies. The familiar patois of the left - unfound WMD's, 9/11 was not Saddam's work, oil, Halliburton - are blown away by the certainty that Islamo-facists will continue their brutal attacks against the free world.
Hatred has no timetable or border; it flourishes in depraved minds around the world: from Bali to London to the Los Angeles airport, where in 2002 an Arab limo driver woke up on his birthday, loaded guns and packed extra magazines and then walked to the El Al ticket counter to kill Jews.
While we debate Supreme Court nominees and disaster relief efforts - liberally assigning blame and assuming ill motives - let's not take our eye off the ball. Our freedom - our very existence - is threatened by the true enemy who hails from far-flung lands and lives among us in our free, tolerant, pluralistic society. Read the president's speech. You might as well admit it: It's the truth.
(Donald Meissner founded and runs Donald Meissner Communications, an advertising and public relations firm in St. Louis County.)
I enjoy Monica, and frankly I do not set out to watch him I was channel surfing ...
He has yet to stop spinning!
Reagan I'm sure loved his son, but I bet he did not understand him.
I just dislike him greatly.
What the MSM liars don't tell you is that Rummy has had *plenty* of *real* town halls with the men in uniform where the questions *were* wide-open.
The one time the MSM scored a 'coup' on that format was a journalist getting a grunt to ask a pointed questin about up-armoring of Humvees. What the MSM *never* reported was that most of those unscripted questions were of the form "hey, we are doing good work here, why isnt the media reporting our successes properly?"
I don't see anything wrong with what Bush did. It is transparent that the MSM has clear double-standards on Bush vs a Democrat doing the same thing.
Thanks for posting the transcript.
Ron Reagan is ballerina with the IQ of a gnat. All to typical of the talking heads on the idiot box.
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