[PhiKapMom]

FYI!

[PhiKapMom]

Posted for your information and forwarding so people around the World can read what the President had to say tonight!

Thanks!

[Wait4Truth]

A great speech by President Bush - understated and calm but with a strong and patriotic message. This man will change the world...mark my words.

[PhiKapMom]

Please put Transcript next to this subject and return to Breaking News.

This transcript of the President's speech is sure more important than what AP is telling us he said which is in Breaking News.

Thank you!

[CedarDave]

Transcript posted on Front Page News with link to FR discussion thread.

< /huffin' and puffin'>

[CedarDave]

Whoops! My mistake. I got the title wrong in my post on Front Page News. I've asked Admin Moderator to give it the ZOT treatment since it has no comments.

(Then I'm going to leave well enough alone!)

[WarHawk42]

I don't know what you heard but I heard an ultimatum to the UN.  Do your duty or get out of the way.  Hopefully they will continue to block and make the UN irrelevant.

Good speech overall.  Only time will tell if he does what he says.  I hope he does.

WarHawk42

[elfman2]

I wonder if history will record how bold, brave and visionary this out of timed speech is from this "compromised moderate repulicrat".

[CedarDave]

Well, as a result of all this, the admin moderator pulled my post (which is fine even though it WAS first ;>)) and put up JimRob's thread on vanities and duplicate posts at the top of the Breaking News list. Time to go watch Law and Order.

< /grumpiness>

[FreeCanuckistan]

A great speech by its content. The indignant Liberals will criticise 'the protector of democracy' talk by Bush, although its been said and done by other great 'Western Civilisations' in the past.

If you have to stand.....stand for something.

A tip of the hat to a great President.

[IncPen]

On a September morning, threats that had gathered for years, in secret and far away, led to murder in our country on a massive scale.

He's being kind. Clinton saw it, looked the other way.

After defeating enemies, we did not leave behind occupying armies, we left constitutions and parliaments.

"Some of whom have forgotten this, even as I speak tonight"

I'd have preferred if he'd mentioned (even in passing) that Iraq will be the staging ground for the US forces in the region, and any rogue regime that doesn't toe the line on this Wahabbi BS ought to expect the same Saddam thing.

Looks like we're going to war, folks.

Be ready, be wary, be safe.

[cake_crumb]

I didn't make it to the live thread on time, but IMO it was a great speech. Too few people ignore the media spin and pay close attention to the words of the only man who's words matter : President Bush.

I particularly loved his remarks about how the United States will not determin Iraq's post Saddam government because that's for the Iraqi people to decide.

The media is going to have to print SOMETHING on his remarks tonight. The spin oughtta be interesting.

Unfortunately, the speech will do nothing to shut up the protestors of peace, because they could care less about Iraq or the Iraqi people. Theire aim is to get President Bush and the leaders who support him out of their respective positions of authority. They want their socialist/communists back.

[CedarDave]

Did you notice the choice of verbs in this sentence:

This same tyrant has close ties to terrorist organizations, and could supply them with the terrible means to strike this country -- and America will not permit it.

I hope "could" is the operative word and that we are not to late to keep Saddam from spreading his terror WMD to radicals around the world.

[RobbyS]

We are in this spot, evidentally, because Bush chose the multinational route rather than dealing with nationals bilaterally. This was the Bush 41-Power recommendation, I gather and it has not ended well. Now we have to go ahead. By failing to see that neither France nor Russia would preapprove the establishment of an American hegemony in the Middle East, the admnistration has put in the position that it canot force Saddam inti exile. Bush has to be bold enough now to break the France position in Europe and to deal with the Russians on a bilateral basis.

[Cap Huff]

I didn't watch the speech; it was given in the middle of the night were I live, but reading the commentary and the transcript it is obvious that a lot of important things were done:

For antsy "cut the talk and just do it" types like me and most freepers he was saying once again, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Just like he said before the November election blowout.

For Euroweenies he was being calm and reasonable in tone. This makes ChIraq's blasting about "dividing the world" seem terribly uncontrolled and over-heated. Who's talking reasonably, Bush — not ChIraq.

For those concerned about Iraq's future, i.e. Turkey, other M.E. countries and neighbors, and also Russia, he was saying "Iraqi sovereignty and territorial integrity." I could not help but remember something in another thread (www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/852557/posts) about Russia possibly allowing a "second" resolution to go through without veto —

"Margelov said he would like to see diplomatic options exhausted before military action is taken, and suggested the United States lay out plans for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq before any invasion."

This is exactly what Bush did. The speech was written long before Margelov said this (I assume this is what he said and not just some reporters words put in his mouth) so someone almost certainly told him and his government to listen carefully to this speech. By the way, if Margelov actually said something like this, it is an encouraging sign that Russia is resigned to a Saddam/Baath Regime demise.

For the fence-sitters on the UNSC he was saying, "if you want to be part of an historic, real initiative for stability in the M.E. vote yes. If you want more of the fussing and uncertainty and tension we have now go with the french opinions. Bush flipped the equation around for them. A "yes" vote is no longer a vote for war while "no" is for peace. A "yes" vote for them can been seen as a vote for true stability. I think this will do it for them. Bush gets a "second" resolution which will stave off at least some of the worst of the leftist propaganda in the beginning stages. (It will come back eventually — leftist propaganda has been with us since V. I. Lenin was in diapers.)

I suppose there were other audiences, but these are some that cross my mind.

[Momaw Nadon]

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