Bush's Speech Statistics. Words have 'meaning' and I am confident Bush means every word he has said regardless of the back peddling on his behalf by Dear Old Dad. If one doesn't believe the words within these statistics are sincere then all one has to do is read the plans Cheney has laid out for Iran with entanglements of Israel that Cheney has no right to make. There is no denying regardless of the excuses made by those attempting to 'calm the nerves' of the Intellects in the USA that Bush is a war monger and people like Woodruff and her spouse chronically 'cover' for him until it is too late.
THERE IS too much 'mistrust.' Oddly enough for as untrustworthy CNN has become under the guidance of a staunch bigot in Sharon von Zweiten they still have occassional guests that see the world differently. The problem is that once they have voiced their opinion they are rarely heard from again.
"Lindsay raises another point.
By bluntly equating terror and tyranny, Bush essentially absolves himself of all responsibility and ignores the fact that some of the anti-Americanism that manifests itself in violence is a result of American policies, not a hatred for American freedom.
Stephen Hess, a former presidential speechwriter who is now a fellow at the centrist Brookings Institution, called the address "the quintessential American inauguration speech," and pointed to principles Bush borrowed from previous inaugural speeches by, among others, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
"This was all about principles," Hess said, adding he felt European reaction to the speech was alarmist.
But in an interview on CNN yesterday, David Gergen, who advised several U.S. presidents, said the speech revealed a much more ambitious strategy to win the war on terror than first thought.
"It is not simply going after Iraq and getting rid of Saddam nor is it simply going after Al Qaeda," Gergen said. "It's rather to expand and extend liberty across much of the world."
Gergen said Bush's neoconservative backers were energized by the speech and buoyed by its idealism.
"They'll expect something to happen as a result of this," he said."
I INFREQUENTLY agree with Mr. Gergen but there have been times when I have agreed with him and this is one of them. I believe this IS the truth of the situation without a shadow of a doubt. One needs to realize unlike Jefferson, Kennedy, Reagan and Washington; Bush is a Neocon and loves war and killing. This is a difficult time for the USA but it is a dangerous time for the world.
