Bush: The speech

Dear old Bush. I do like the guy. He's got chutzpah, as my Jewish friends would say. He picks a fight, and he sticks to it. He has beliefs, and he stands by them. He is strong in the face of daily verbal assaults from the left.

He's not the best public speaker, but last night, his speech was pretty darn good.

Highlights:

1)"This election will not mean the end of violence. But it is the beginning of something new: constitutional democracy at the heart of the Middle East. And this vote-- 6,000 miles away, in a vital region of the world-- means that America has an ally of growing strength in the fight against terror."-GWB

2)"Our Coalition confronted a regime that defied United Nations Security Council Resolutions, violated a cease-fire agreement, sponsored terrorism and possessed, we believed, weapons of mass destruction."-GWB (****Note: His statement, "we believed", yup, we all did. Not just America, everyone else too.)

3)"....it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He was given an ultimatum and he made his choice for war." (**** Note:How true is this? He had how many resolutions he ignored? He was given years to let inspectors back in, and then weeks to choose the "non-war" path, Saddam did not, he ultimately is the one responsible for the war.)

4)"The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere-- they object to our deepest values and our way of life."-GWB

5)"September 11th, 2001, required us to take every emerging threat to our country seriously, and it shattered the illusion that terrorists attack us only after we provoke them. On that day, we were not in Iraq, we were not in Afghanistan, but the terrorists attacked us anyway-- and killed nearly 3,000 men, women and children in our own country. My conviction comes down to this: We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them."-GWB (****Note: Put that in your pipe and smoke it.)

6)"Yet there is a difference between honest critics who recognize what is wrong, and defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right."-GWB

7)"I also want to speak to those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country-- victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance. I don't expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom."-GWB

Not bad..... Comments...Questions?