Excerpt from w's speech tonight: Bloodshed in Iraq is 'worth it'...no joke

[mopaul]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AlAR6leKCto4iAYOb67TszCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

"Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying and the suffering is real," Bush said, according to excerpts released ahead of time by the White House. "It is worth it."

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"The work in Iraq is difficult and dangerous," the president said. "We have more work to do and there will be tough moments that test America's resolve. ... The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins."

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Bush reserved a few hours before the speech for a private session to console the loved ones of fallen soldiers. Though he often holds these meetings when visiting military bases, the White House's decision to schedule time with 33 grieving families on the same day as the major address underscored the president's plan to offer a more somber assessment than usual of a war that has killed over 1,740 U.S. military personnel and 12,000 Iraqi civilians.

[mmonk]

1. Many American

corporations think so.

[Stirk]

2. 'Tough moments that test our resolve' sounds like a little prep for

the Abu Ghraib photos to me.

[EnfantTerrible]

4. ... or Iran and/or Syria invasion

totally agree with you about the photos

[arcane1]

3. I wonder if he used that bull-shit line on the soldiers' families too

if he did, he's lucky he didn't get the living shit beat out of him :grr:

"worth it"???? :puke:

[donheld]

5. Then he can shed his own blood for this worthy cause.

Instead of sending poor kids to shead their blood, he can lead by example, and take Rummy, Condi etc with him.

[charlyvi]

6. Huh? The resolve of the American people?

The American people were not involved in this--they responded to a tissue of lies. This is strictly shrub's debacle; the American people did not have the facts to make an honest appraisal of the cost, in money and lives, to our country. Now he wants to pretend it was a decision we all made and need to stick to? Damn....my head hurts.

[mopaul]

7. uh, george, the american people are tired of your phony stupid war

earth to george!

[lvx35]

13. word.

As Sun Tzu says in The Art Of War, 'all war is based on deception'. A societies opposition to war will depend largely on their access to open information about the war, and with a societies opposition, the effectiveness of the military endeavor will be decreased...At least with wars of conquest.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi lvx35!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[lvx35]

18. Thank you!

Thanks to you and all the other people who have said hello to me today! Its good to be here! :)

[lvx35]

8. You know what this means.

War support is being undermimed by pictures being spread on the Internet of the violence, this is why Bush is speaking to it. It appears that openess and freedom of speech are working against the effort, as they did with the MSM in Viet Nam.

[charlyvi]

14. Uh Oh! You said the V word.....

We're not supposed to compare such TOTALLY different situations, Ivx35. Didn't you get the memo?

:sarcasm:

PS....Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[bluedog]

9. this POS...makes me want to skin him

When I read this.I went on every board and started posting away..............when is his daughters going to join up........

[lectrobyte]

10. As Uncle Tupelo says:

We've got two kinds here
Those that bleed the blood
And those that work to will it

[LizW]

11. Depends on what he means by "it"

The violence and bloodshed are worth "it", Bush says. What are they worth? What is the trade for the lost lives, lost limbs, lost eyes, lost souls?

A safer America? No, I don't think so.

A freer America? No, not according to the Patriot Act.

A happier, healthier, wealthier America? Um, no. Not for the vast majority of us.

Cheaper gas at the pump, even? I guess not.

Someone PLEASE tell me what this "it" is that so many are sacrificing so much for.

:grr:

[charlyvi]

12. His corporate cronies.

Oh, and his own pride--we musn't let ANYONE know how deeply wrong shrub was on this one.

[Lucille]

15. He's meeting bereaved families? Expect a tear or a tremor

in his voice as he quotes a young widow (with twins, maybe?)who told him that he needs to be strong for all America, because her husband died to make Hailliburton rich...ooops...I mean, because her husband died spreading freedom and stopping the terrorists who would've attacked us here were we not fighting them there. "'Be strong,' she told me. 'Be strong for him.' I promised her I would. Because I keep my promises, and America keeps her promises."

See? I can write this shit. How come I'm not a screen... I mean speech writer? How come I'm not in Hollywood...oops, I mean Washington?

[charlyvi]

16. I wonder if any of the families will ask why he has never

attended the funerals of any young people he sent to die based on his reprehensible and craven lies? Ya think?