Bush Talk
Bush speech here. Blah blah blah here:
Fred Kaplan at Slate sees nothing but lies and wants to know what world George Bush is living in. Other lefty blogs said more or less the same thing, only more incoherently, with lots of f-words.
Short answer to Fred: one in which Islamic terrorists seek to humiliate us and regain a pariah state from which they can attack us. One in which terrorist-supporting Iran seeks control of more of the world’s oil supply. Fred’s right in a way, though. Bush didn’t do that good a job driving those points home, as well as the genocide thing, America’s standing in the world.
I’m not sure that he had to. We’ve already seen growing support for the war, and a growing desire to win reflected in the polls. We’ve seen that the Dems remain incapable of pushing forward their surrender agenda, that their numbers are thinning rather than growing.
There will be budget battles. The Democrats will lose them. The next reckoning is pushed off til March. Meanwhile, serious pressure has to be brought to bear on al-Maliki to become a national leader, an idea he’s occasionally paid lip service to, and stop being a Shiite extremist stooge. Hopefully his own people, increasingly tired of mindless bloodshed, will bring that pressure. There’s the theory out there that the turning of the Sunni tribes against al-Qaeda has the potential to turn Shiites against their own extremists militias … when the sectarian threat is reduced, they aren’t needed, and al-Sadr’s manuevering indicates he already senses that in the wind. There remains the very serious problem of Iran, which has no desire to see any reconciliation or reduction in violence, and maintains the capability to thwart it.
Powerline, on this side of the ledger, thinks it was a great speech. Surber calls it a moment of truth. Gateway rounds up the official Dem reax and wonders where they get their information from. Riehl curelly mocks Reed’s Elmer Fudd moment.
Gateway also has a good one on Khamenei doing what Pelosi doesn’t have the stones to do. Call for a Bush trial. Someone tell MoveOn.org. Here’s some leadership they can get behind.
Ouch! Tony Snow says my credibility rating is lower than Bush’s!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:46 am Comments (3) on Friday, September 14, 2007
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September 14th, 2007 at 11:35 am
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September 14th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Jules, Tony Snow is referring to the people who sit in the press room in the White House and pepper the head honchos with inane, self-interested questions (names protected because I’m sure as hell not giving these twits props).
You’re OK in our book.