Helen Thomas: "Dubya makes his war pitch"

[samhsarah]

Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Washington -- PRESIDENT BUSH is taking the advice of Sen. John Warner, a Republican Party elder, who urged him to get out and sell the American public on the Iraq war.

After Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee, gave that advice on Nov. 28, the president embarked on a series of six campaign-style speeches that have tried to justify the U.S.-led attack on Iraq and the continuing occupation.

Bush also got the same get-out-and-sell-sell-sell advice last week from the former secretaries of state and secretaries of defense who met him briefly in the White House. They warned the president that he would have to build political support on the home front for the war -- or the war critics would become more vocal, as they did in the Vietnam War era. Back then, those widespread protests led to congressional opposition to the war and forced the United States to end 15 years of active military involvement in Southeast Asia.

The former secretaries told Bush that he should be more active in his efforts to explain the reasons for the United States to be in Iraq -- especially as the human and financial costs mount

more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/15/EDG1UGN6PN1.DTL&hw=dubya&sn=001&sc=1000

[rodeodance]

1. yes, Jr--just educate us (and some more sheepies will follow)--

[sweetm2475]

2. Why does Helen Thomas hate America?

:sarcasm:

[Surya Gayatri]

3. And while he's out there

further flogging his favorite cause, who's going to mind the store? Better reve up Air Force One--he'll be off on another barn-stormer soon. SG

[mom cat]

4. With the luck that he had selling his Social Security "reform", I am

not worried about his sales blitzes. The more he talks, the more Americans hate him.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. I'm worried about these damn

"progressions of the royal personage" (as under the pre-constitutional British monarchy)monopolizing CORP MEDIA coverage to the exclusion of the really pressing matters of government--Katrina reconstruction, ad infinitum.
:grr: SG

[mom cat]

6. You have that pegged about right.