this is what you call - desperation... whatever advisor told him that this would be a good rhetorical ploy miscalculated that the american public still could be swayed by the president's babbling.. after bush's legacy of incompetence and unaccountability, does he think that the same old parlor tricks will work this time?
someone should've yelled out, "yeah, we know they're still after us dumbass. and thanks to your adventure into iraq, there are a whole lot more terrorists for us to worry about."
CNN.com - Bush: Bin Laden's intentions as clear as Hitler's - Sep 5, 2006 Quote:
"Bin laden and his terrorists' allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them," the president said before the Military Officers Association of America and diplomatic representatives of other countries that have suffered terrorist attacks. "The question is `Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say?"'
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The president also said extremists from Islam's Shia sect are learning from Sunni extremists, and asserted the danger of the Shia-controlled nation of Iran. He said Iran is fighting a proxy war with the U.S. and Israel by funding and arming the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
"Like al Qaeda and the Sunni extremists, the Iranian regime has clear aims. They want to drive America out of the region, to destroy Israel, and to dominate the broader Middle East," Bush said. "America will not bow down to tyrants."
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"The terrorists who attacked us on September the 11th, 2001, are men without conscience, but they're not madmen," he said. "They kill in the name of a clear and focused ideology, a set of beliefs that are evil but not insane."
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the democrats' response was predictably unimpressive. and murtha's downright frightening.
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"All the speeches in the world won't change what's going on in Iraq," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
"The truth is the president's policies have not worked and have not made us safer," said Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Delaware.
Rep. John Murtha, a hawkish Democrat who voted in favor of the war but now favors withdrawing troops, said the administration has so badly botched the war that a draft might be necessary.
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