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All I can say is what crap ... good article that I think goes along with what I think in regrads to his horse *&*& talk
Bush gave an atypically long speech last night with a clear intention of trying to convince Americans that Iraq and September 11 are somehow linked...
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I don't know about you, but if I or a friend or family member had lost someone in the September 11 attacks, I would have been insulted and angered by President Bush's speech last night. In a speech that was supposed to be a pep-rally for the Iraq war, he mentioned September 11 in his seventh sentence. (I'm disregarding the usual "hello" and "good evening" stuff at the beginning.) Then he mentioned it one paragraph later in his twelfth sentence.
But then the 9/11 references stopped until his twelfth paragraph. Why? Because it was time to make Iraq references instead. There were immediately 17 references to Iraq or Iraqis before the next September 11 reference, which astonishingly was followed immediately by a reference to Iraq:
The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11, if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like bin Laden. For the sake of our nation's security, this will not happen on my watch.
WHAT? This is, by far, the most mangled, absurd propaganda defecation I have ever read. In one single sentence, Bush tried to link September 11, Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden. This is an insult to everyone who lost someone on September 11 and an insult to the intelligence of the American people. Iraq did not attack us on September 11. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did not attack us. He wasn't even regarded by us as a terrorist until long after "Mission Accomplished." Osama bin Laden presumably was responsible for the attacks... now why is it that we haven't captured or killed him yet?
Bush went on to talk about Iraq some more, but came back to the theme of connecting Iraq with the terrorist attacks. His next reference is even more brazen than the last, if you can believe such a thing [emphasis added]:
We have more work to do, and there will be tough moments that test America's resolve. We are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras. They are trying to shake our will in Iraq just as they tried to shake our will on September 11, 2001. They will fail. The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.
WHAT? The insurgent forces in Iraq did not attack us on September 11! They did not even EXIST on September 11! We made them ourselves by launching an unprovoked attack (Iraq never attacked us, couldn't attack us, and wasn't planning to attack us) and occupying their country. (Don't get me wrong here; what they're doing is evil to be sure; killing innocent people is obviously unacceptable behaviour. One could write an entire article on the killing of innocents on both sides of this ongoing war.)
There were no terrorist forces in Iraq before we attacked them. Bush's lie here couldn't be any more wanton. These are not the same terrorists! The terrorists who attacked us were mainly from Saudi Arabia. The reasons they attacked us (what we know of them anyway) had nothing to do with Iraq. For President Bush to plainly exclaim that these are the same people who attacked us on September 11, an event that took a tremendous emotional and physical toll on the American people, for the sake of rallying support for his failing war on Iraq is the absolute limit of treachery.
Bush made one last reference to September 11 in his last paragraph, and again it was in an attempt to link the terrorist attack with the Iraq war:
After September 11, 2001, I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult and that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult. And we are prevailing. Our enemies are brutal, but they are no match for the United States of America and they are no match for the men and women of the United States military
WHAT?? Our enemies are Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda! Not Iraq! Yet, the war is happening in Iraq, and here again Bush is trying to link this ongoing war with the terrorist attacks. This is a load of horse-pucky.
Aside from trying to convince the American people that Saddam Hussein (who was mentioned only twice in the speech) and Iraq were behind the terrorist attacks with the help of al-Zarqawi's crack terrorist squads, Bush had several other running themes which can be discerned using word frequency analysis, excluding commonly used english words. The only words used more than "terrorists" (23 times) were Iraqis (24 times), Iraq, (29 times) and Iraqi (32 times). "Freedom" was used 20 times, "forces" 19 times, "fight" 15 times and "military" and "security" each were used 14 times.
Looking at two- and three-word phrases, "Iraqi security forces" came up 7 times, "the American people" 5 times; "terrorists and insurgents," "the Iraqi people," "war on terror," "the middle east," and "complete the mission" each came up four times. "The terrorists" was used 16 times, "the enemy" 7 times and "the mission" 6 times. Even from these short phrases you can see what Bush is trying to do through repetition: it's us against them, terrorists and insurgents are the same people, and the war on Iraq is somehow related to combating terrorism.
Bush is clearly hoping to continue to use civilized society's fear of terrorism and our collective visceral reaction to the terrorist attacks to rally support for his unjustified war that had nothing to do with terrorism. And unfortunately, his speech may have had some limited success. A Gallup flash poll found that those who tuned in to the speech (who were disproportionately Republican Bush supporters) "are now more likely to say the United States and its allies are winning the Iraq war, that Bush has a clear plan for handling the war, and that the United States should keep troops in Iraq until the situation there gets better." Gallup did not poll to see what percentage of viewers thought that Iraq had something to do with the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Whether Bush's bizarre propaganda will work on the American people at large remains to be seen.
---Nick

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Stupid Canadians wtf do you know!

Don't get me wrong, it's all stuff I agree with, but all some of you guys do is bitch bitch bitch bitch about how Bush lied.. We fucking know that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and all those other douches have made countless contradictory and misleading statements.
What are you going to do about it? March in a parade? Make a post on the LoD boards?

did for clinton. When he lied about getting his fucking dick sucked. That is what is funny to me. People don't get 2 shits about being lied to for reason we go to war, but when the president porks some fat chick and lies about it then we impeach him and try to remove him from office.

but right now im content with the fact that nothing will ever be done about it.
It's funny because Americans are more offended by sex, and homosexuals than violence. The Christian anti-sex messages, and the single vague reference to gay marrage held true but all Jesus's teaches about violence, war and revenge kind of went over everyone's head. Eye for an eye is still cool, even though the person my whole fucking religion is based around says, "eye for an eye isn't cool anymore."...

Isn't that the truth.
Hell, I liked Clinton.

/signed