We look to the day when moms and dads throughout the Middle East see a future of hope and opportunity for their children.

When did Bush become president of the Middle East?

Do the people who actually live there have any say in this?

Or did "history" only give the U.S. "this test" on the future of the Middle East?

Man, that is bordering on delusional.

How many stupid democrats turned the memorial into a political speach stump. I know Chuckie Schumer (D NY) and Moran the Moron (D Va) did. There is no shame and no brains left in the democratic party. Like the movie Path to 9-11 said, there is nothing but cowards left in the democratic party. Time for them to become the non-existant party, not just the minority party or maybe they can join their frinds the Islamofascist's. They are already more dangerous to the people of the United States.

35%:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Bush and Cheney have no credibility on Iraq, and they risk losing their edge in the war on terror (which apparently is on hold while we referee a civil war in Iraq).

I mean, I know we all have our partisan leanings and our ideological worldviews, but please don't tell me how great a political speech like this is, or how it moves you. If it moves you it is because you desperately want to believe in Bush, this war, the idea that we can mold nations through occupation and force after destroying them with sanctions, you subscribe to starry eyed rhetoric instead of the realism that conservatives have historically called for.

I must say, it is endearing to hear Republicans switch from their warm and fuzzy descriptions of a liberated Iraq to their dark and angry rhetoric about destroying terrorists and winning the war.

For whatever reason you think we are there, the prospects look dim that we are going to force a historically distrustful population to agree to become a westernized democracy. It was a nice dream, and one I thought we would sooner see from the left than the right, but it is a dream for now.

For the record, does anyone hear think that sanctions are effective foreign policy against a dictatorship with a weak middle class? Who suffers during our proposed sanctions of Iran? The leadership? The powerful? Not that I can see. Who then? Oh. The poor. Well, we know what the GOP thinks of them, those lazy ne'er do wells.

I thought the speech was probably written by Peggy Noonan - it had a Reaganesque quality to it. It was also a speech designed to make the Democrats speak out like rabid dogs. Surprise! It worked. ABC had Stephenopolis and Charles Gibson belittling the speech moments after it ended before resuming the "Path to 9/11" mini-series. What a misstep for the anti-Bushies.

Bush and Cheney have no credibility on Iraq, and they risk losing their edge in the war on terror (which apparently is on hold while we referee a civil war in Iraq).

This statement is what we call "filler" in Cobol programming. Zero use, no meaning, just taking up space. They have plenty of credibility - except in the deranged minds of liberals - but who care what they think? Most of what the President is dealing with now is the result of that same liberal "truth" when Willie was chasing skirts around the White House instead of killing people like binny boy.

The war on terror is proceeding as planned. There has been no attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 and that is because we have actively prevented such an attack - based om the war on terror that we are fighting. Your refusal to see that tells me a lot about your lack of understanding of the real world and your typical wishful thinking taken as some sort of fantasy-reality.

...but please don't tell me how great a political speech like this is, or how it moves you.

Now you think you're an authority on what moves people? Just because your dim-witted inability to see and understand a great speech precludes you from experiencing reality, that does not apply to the rest of us. Here's an idea, if you don't like what you read here, move along. You'd probably feel much better in the delusional and fictional world of Daily Kos or that fat O'Dub's pointless drivel.

For whatever reason you think we are there

We know why we are there. If you can't figure it out, perhaps you should look in a mirror for why you can't.

For the record...

Very good high-school level writing. Start with and end with the same meaningless yammering. Ties it all together and further demonstrates your own inability to see the world around you. I'd sure hate to have to wake up every day feeling the way you must. That would really suck.

Jim's comments in the next post perfectly describe the reaction of flagella (even as they were written hours before flagella posted)

The President wasn't talking to people like flagella. Well said Jim.

Simon,

We hold these truths to be self-evident...

From history's most beautiful defense of the principle of SELF-DETERMINATION and freedom FROM FOREIGN CONTROL.

Thanks for supporting my point.

I was able to catch a bit of Rush on the way to work today. He completely punked out old Georgey Stephanopolus (sp? whatever).

Right after the speech, George was on the record saying this speech was not political (which of course, it wasn't; or at the very least it was not partisan). One would have to assume this was his first, honest impression. That was of course before he got the talking points memo from the Dem overlords of communication.

This morning, he's making the complete opposite assertion. Good boy George. Remember, don't you ever express an original idea again until you've checked in with moonbat central. You risk screwing everything up.

"We look to the day when moms and dads throughout the Middle East see a future of hope and opportunity for their children.

When did Bush become president of the Middle East?

Do the people who actually live there have any say in this?

Or did "history" only give the U.S. "this test" on the future of the Middle East?

Man, that is bordering on delusional.".

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What a moron you are.

So you think the people in the Middle East would choose to continue to live under tyranny? I guess women over there want to continue to be subjugated and raped by ruthless dictators. Is that what you're defending?

And you know damn well that the US is NOT forcing them to do anything. All we are doing is giving them the OPPORTUNITY to make their own decisions.

You're the one who's delusional.

All we are doing is giving them the OPPORTUNITY to make their own decisions.

Is that really ALL we are doing?

Then why do we support, in fact protect, tyrannical Saudi Arabia?

I guess women over there want to continue to be subjugated and raped by ruthless dictators.

I look forward to Bush's anti-raping-dictator agenda in all the countries that PROTECT our economic interests.