Please give this night-shifter a synopsis of the * speech!!

[Hello_Kitty]

I missed it and I'm only getting fragments of it here and the internet news coverage sucks. I need the DU rundown! Thanks.

[bling bling]

1. Everything that's going wrong with Iraq,

is actually going "right."

That's pretty much the gist of the speech.

[burrowowl]

2. Buzzflash.com

has a transcript. It must have been very short or NPR didn't broadcast it. I wnet in the store for 15 minutes and it was over if they boradcast it.

[Ilsa]

14. I heard the start of it on NPR in my car and then came inside.

Ask your local station if they bothered carrying it. It could be that they felt a rebroadcast of this morning's "Performance Today" was more important.

[shraby]

3. We're fighting them there so we

don't have to fight them here. Same old, same old. Tried to link 9/11 with Iraq for the umteenth million time.

[Kansas Wyatt]

4. Same propaganda Shrub always catapults on to the people.

And young people need to enlist for a higher calling.

[AuntiBush]

5. Head for Mike Malloy Air America Online Now

Head for http://www.airamericaradio.com/ right now and listen to Mike Malloy talk about it.

Realtime or Quicktime

[NYC Liberal]

6. Well here:

:: NO applause except for one tepid time when they were ordered to
:: Bush faked tears at the end
:: More of 9/11, 9/11, 9/11
:: 9/11 <--> Iraq
:: Terrrrrraaaaaa!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!
:: Had to GAUL to say he understands the suffering "because I see it on TV"...IN FRONT OF THE SOLDIERS!!

Am I mssing anything?

[bling bling]

9. OMG Are you serious????

I missed the first 9 minutes of the speech.

Did he really say he understands the suffering because "I see it on TV?"

[Ilsa]

17. Yeah. He sais he "sees the pictures". Another lie, because we

all know that he counts of his advisors to read the newspapers for him and then tell because he doesn't need the media filter. I suspect they save the Funnies and Baseball page for him.

[cynatnite]

18. don't forget the recruiting. dubya did some tonight n/t

[BrewerJohn]

7. Imagine cutting and pasting from everything he's said

about Iraq for the last year or so. Nothing new. Warmed-over gibberish.
And this was the speech that was supposed to break his slump in public opinion.

I laughed all the way through it, having honed my sense of gallows humor considerably over these past years.

[Luminous Animal]

8. Think Progress has a great analysis

http://www.thinkprogress.org/

[uppityperson]

10. Its been difficult but we're making progess and can't quit TheMission

The mission the mission the mission, stay as long as we're needed, step down when the Iraqis step up, will send no more troops because the commanders on the ground say they have plenty and that would send the wrong signal that we're there to stay, fight terrorists, those that don't follow the Laws of Warfare and morality, the mission the mission, terror terrorist Iraq Iraqi Iraqis, freedom, if you are considering a military career it is the finest thing you can do, September 11, the mission, success is critical, over 160,000 Iraqis trained, terrorist, Iraqis, Iraw, ideology, Iraq, freedom, peace, godbless. To paraphrase.

[tallahasseedem]

11. LIES, 9/11, LIES, Sadaam, LIES, Crybaby Blowmonkey.

That about sums it up.

[Glenda]

25. LOL!!!

"Crybaby Blowmonkey"

[goodboy]

12. more of the same. (nt)

[Eugene]

13. Complete the mission. Complete the mission. Complete the mission.

We must defeat the terrists and insurgents.
We're making progress. We're making progress.
Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.
And, finally, fly the flag on the 4th!
Be patriotic and enlist.

* basically restated his hallucination
of a free Iraq as a model of a reformed
Middle East. Nothing new but he took
a more somber tone this time.

[paparush]

15. Here it is in a Nutshell

By my count (speech started at 8:00 pm)

9/11 Reference #1 at 8:02 p.m.
9/11 Reference #2 at 8:04 p.m.
9/11 Reference #3 at 8:09 p.m.
9/11 Reference #4 at 8:24 p.m.


Suprisingly, Bush referred to Osama Bin Laden by name...

Osama Reference #1 at 8:07 p.m.
Osama Reference #2 at 8:09 p.m.

1st spontaneous applause did not occur until 8:25 p.m.

Must Credit Smudge

Candy Assed President Bawls During Death Pep Rally

Rove, "Meds had worn off...Pay no attention...HooHa!"

Joint Chiefs Meet in Emergency Session to plot overthrow of Cry Baby Commander in Chief

[uppityperson]

21. Applause was prompted by WH staff.

spontaneous applause was when he shut up. WMD mentioned not once. Exit strategy not once beyond he wouldn't give a time and when the Iraqis step up.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Full transcript

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/29TEXT-BUSH.html?pagewanted=print

[Ilsa]

19. Not a single statistic or detail about "all the good things our

troops are doing in Iraq". Didn't say how many schools or hospitals have been built. Didn't say how many more kids are dying of diseases caused by contaminated water or the elderly dying in the summer heat for lack of electricity to cool them. Didn't say how many innocent Iraqis have died in this cause, or how much money we're going to make on Iraqi oil.

[Armstead]

20. Have you heard any of his other speeches?

Then you heard this one.

[UTUSN]

22. Shrub Reading Words Words Words - Unconvincing - Iraqis-Iraqis-Iraqis

It was eerie. When the word was that he was going to talk with soldiers as props, I expected there was going to be a cheering circus like the SotU. There was no introduction (on the air), no cheers, just Shrub reading somebody else's words, the same words we've been hearing for 5 years, yap yap yap. In the last half there was one more bloviating platitude and there was ONE round of applause. Other posters here have said that applause was started by a WH staffer. Then the applause at the end. That was all. One of the games here before the event was for somebody to predict which word Shrub would be using over and over. The word was "the Iraqis-Iraqis-Iraqis". That was the whole misguidedness of it all: What the country wants to hear is "Americans-Americans-Americans"-- as in, why did we go there, what's happening to the country, we want America FIRST, not "democracy" in Iraq.

[TankLV]

23. "Oh, shit - are they going to shoot me now, or wait till I finish."

Bunkerboy's facial reactions to looking over the stoney silence of grim faced actual SOLDIERS!

He began by looking really pissed when he walked up to the microphone, waited for a long while, and - DEAD SILENCE!

Not a single applause, nothing.

He looked real pissed - just like the first debates.

[Hello_Kitty]

24. Thanks everyone!

I think I got the gist of it now :hi:


Looks like I didn't miss much.