Is this right? According to the Washington Post today their new poll shows that more Americans are approving of Bush. 47%!! My question is…why? What has he done in the last month to get Americans to think that he is doing a good or better job?
Tapping phones without a court order? Are you kidding me? Welcome to Russia.
Now, President Bush isn’t even trying to change. He is stating the same thing over and over. Now, he is even using the exact same words. Maybe we shouldn’t be paying attention. Here are the points that make this speech not worth you time to listen to it.
1) He wastes no time bringing 9-11 into the picture. Confusing 9-11 and Iraq is wrong. In his 4th paragragh – “September 11, 2001, our nation awoke to a sudden attack, and we accepted new responsibilities. We are confronting new dangers with firm resolve.” I could argue this paragraph for 2 hours. We did not accept squat!! We invaded Afghanistan. We did not accept the responsibility to rebuild that country which is slowing sliding into the icy grip of the Taliban…again.
2) His very next paragraph makes me want to puke. “We are hunting down the terrorists and their supporters. We will fight this war without wavering. And we will prevail.” Where is Osama? He is the terrorist most responsible for 9-11. Where is he? If he isn’t in one of those secret prisons then we ain’t doing the job. Where is Omar the leader of the Taliban?
When is he going to give us a plan? Staying the course isn’t a good plan! We tried it and it hasn’t worked.
Today in a speech the Iranian president said that Israel has no right to exist and better yet that the Holocaust was just a myth.
I’m not sure something so stupid deserves comment.
We invaded Iraq instead of Iran. Why is that again? (Our intelligence on Iran is slightly better than our intelligence on Iraq. We know that Iran has sponsored terrorists. We know that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon. As opposed to Iraq in which we “thought” we knew what was going on.)
Is this is 4th speech on this subject or his 104th? Maybe I’m not paying attention but it seems that he says the same thing over and over again. You can re-package horse manure, spray it will perfume and place a bow on top. It is still manure. WE need a new plan. One that will work.
Hey, I got an idea. Now, Iraq is on lock down and there is no violence or at least less violence. Why don’t we do this more often? Oh, that has been tried before…that the way is was in Saddam’s day.
When is the relief that President Bush promised coming?
Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
