This Speech Reeks of Fear and Desperation

[Placebo]

The country is finally turning against this disastrous war and it's architects in such a way that the MSM can no longer ignore it.

You're doomed W.

No amount of fancy backgrounds, shiny faux 'Fort Bragg' signs, and speeches given in ultra-friendly territory will save you and your friends now!

[cliss]

1. You're right.

I'm listening on the radio. I can hear Bush breathing heavily. The tone is desperate. His voice is slightly high-pitched.....

fear....desperation.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. My first impression...

It sounds strangely like the speech he gave one year ago (when we handed over sovreignty like it was a rabid weasel) and oddly like the speech he gave the year before that. Perhaps this will become an annual White House tradition. Once a year, the President holds a televised speech where he blows smoke about how well things are going in Iraq.

This Administration have been nothing but promises and predictions on Iraq. Every prediction has been wrong, every promise broken.

[Placebo]

3. Exactly.

Name one time that the White House has been proven correct with anything they've predicted about the future goings-on in Iraq. There isn't any!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. And not just wrong. Wrong-Headed.

In every case, it's now clear that there were others (the British, the intelligence agencies) who warned against the policy they planned to pursue. And certainly the hundreds of thousands of protestors should have given them pause. But no. They plowed ahead with an obviously flawed policy and are now reaping the whirlwind.

[smirkymonkey]

4. He's pretty much run out of Sept 11, 2001 mileage...

which is very scary, because he's desperate enough for another one.

[Quakerfriend]

6. yup, especially after the way the 9/11 families turned on him

a week or so ago, after KKK tried to use 9/11 one more time for political gain.

[Gay Green]

10. IMO he'll MIHOP this time...

...the last time he merely LIHOP.

[snickersnee]

7. funny thing is...

i thought this was by far the finest performance i've seen him give. i was staggered.

and yet, hearing those tepid "golf claps", just once over the whole speech, and watching cutaways of troops touching their faces as he spoke, i couldn't help but wonder if the coked-up hare hadn't woken up too late to catch the ponderous turtle of truth. :yoiks:

[Lars39]

8. I think the whole thing was just a recruitment commercial.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. my 1st impression exactly..he finely realizes that he has lost