Bush launching campaign to defend Iraq war

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07237827.htm

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Facing growing doubts at home about the wisdom of attacking Iraq, President George W. Bush on Wednesday will launch a campaign to defend the U.S. invasion and cite progress being made even as U.S. troops face almost daily attacks.

The attempt to gain control of the Iraq debate comes as Bush's job approval ratings have been falling and the White House has been on the defensive over a leak investigation and failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Two senior administration officials said on Tuesday the campaign will begin with a Chicago speech by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and continue on Wednesday in speeches by Bush in New Hampshire and Kentucky. And on Friday Vice President Dick Cheney will deliver a speech in Washington.

The campaign coincides with the six-month anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a period marked by daily guerrilla attacks on U.S. forces and complaints from Iraqis about the slow transition to Iraqi self-rule from U.S. control.

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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Oh goody

More lies trying to sell us their version of "success" of an illegal invasion. What percentage of the populace will buy this new pack of lies?

[0007]

17. The populace bought into Arnold

.......I'm not sure anymore.

[DeathvadeR]

2. Wheres the Toilet?

[saigon68]

18. ITS A HUGE DUNG HEAP OVER THERE

The CHIMPANZEE is trying to throw those same flower petals, we have heard so much about, on the BIG huge pile of DUNG that is the mess in IRAQ

My Grandfather once said,"No matter how you cut it its still MANURE"

[Democat]

3. Notice he waited until the day after Arnold?

Obviously the White House had the entire media on full "promote Arnold" duty.

Now that they have done their best to overthrow the government of California, they can get back to defending and spinning for Bush.

[Q]

4. And he's paying for this 'campaign'...

...with our tax dollars.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. The fact that he has to launch a PR campaign is telling.

The $64,000 question is:

Will the American people fail to see the irony?

[Voltaire99]

10. On the subject of irony...

...and Americans, two things spring to mind.

As a friend likes to remark, we are ruled by people who don't find Dr. Strangelove funny.

And I cannot forget that in the hours after 9/11 when the enormity of shock was being transformed into the truncheon of obedient conformity, voices shrilly declaring irony dead were among the first to help shape the New Order. I particularly remember Roger Rosenblatt railing against irony in Time; well, one as deadly dull as Rosenblatt would, wouldn't he. But soon there was a chorus...

Poor America! You really don't deserve the creeps at your helm or the dunces hired to wallpaper your media!

[Kool Kitty]

11. More like an $87 billion dollar question.

And as usual, when in doubt-send Condi out.

[9215]

23. Yep, exactly what I

was thinking. This guy has a bankrupt foreign policy if its advantages aren't self evident.

[alcuno]

6. What have they been doing?

Why was Cheney on MTP? Two or three weeks ago they were doing the same thing. How is speaking at fundraisers going to help?

[realFedUp]

7. Another Charlotte Beers production?

Gads, Bush isn't even a good product.
We've used it and it doesn't work, plus it's
really too expensive.

[FlemingsGhost]

8. Yup... they marketed a version filled with bugs...

And now we are supposed to buy the upgrade?

It's time we found a new operating system.

[Solly Mack]

9. Launch your campaign, Chucklenuts-but I know the truth

I know morale is rock-bottom. I know soldiers are doing everything they can do to not go or to not go back. I know how bad it is over there for soldiers. I know you're a liar.

[bluestateguy]

12. He'll still have to contend with this

and these numbers only go up:

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

[dbt]

13. Oh boy! He's Going To UNITE Us Again!

Y'know, WhistleAss is not the type who is accustomed to being questioned on anything. As a member of the Ruling Class, his word is law; he does not explain. It is beneath him to tell the Subjects why he does anything. We're supposed to hear and obey.

Now, His Majesty has to go before the Great Unwashed and defend his decision. How bad must things really be for his handlers to set such an odious task for him! At every appearance, the peasants will wonder if the Emperor has been sucking lemons. They will marvel at his fine clothes.


Last night
I saw a fire burning on
The palace lawn
O'er the land
The humble subjects watched in mixed
Emotion

Chorus:
Who is burnin' ?
Who is burnin' ?
Effigy --John Fogerty


dbt

[PaDUer]

31. HIs UNITE means

divide us.
It's a disgrace that he's NEVER attended ONE funeral of any military person, and I've not read anywhere that he's even called any family..But he did make a big deal out of the chic from W VA!! He's going to get his!!!

[unpsyops]

14. All this means...

is that Bush* and his co-conspiriters will attempt to reign in the good-puppy press for a more "warm and fuzzy look". Probably lots of human interest stories and if there is any way that they can "sanitize" or even withold the ugly details about American deaths over there, this bunch of traitors will find it.

[newyawker99]

21. Hi unpsyops!!

Welcome to DU!!

[Snellius]

15. He's really snapped. He's turned into Captain Queeg.

Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist! And I'd have produced that key if they hadn't pulled Caine out of action! I-I-I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer and!......(realizes he has been ranting, babbling)

The Madness of Captain Queeg
written by Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort, from the novel by Herman Wouk

[PaDUer]

32. LOLOL

At fast glance, I thought you wrote he's turned into a drag queen!! LOL

[Judi Lynn]

16. They're actually treating the public like their "enemy"

Plotting, scheming, conducting tours to lay out their propaganda, finding new ways to make us buy the lies we wouldn't accept before....

I hope this new effort backfires on them BIG TIME by October 25, and the March on Washington. Hope a multitude turns out to share with them how we appreciate their efforts to deceive us.

[Malva Zebrina]

19. Many people will buy it

Valerie Plame will be just another person falling down the memory hole . Bush will be repackaged to fool his perceived enemies--the American people-- this time perhaps he will astound everyone by parachuting onto a hospital ship full of babies and children. We will be subjected to more lies and more lies as the CEO's take to the stage and churn out the photos that will tell Americans they have strong leaders indeed--hubby tells me that on yesterday's Washington Journal, more than one person called in to say they thought Bush and Blair should receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- the entire Bush admin is a scam sell---complete with shill, two of them, on the sideline. This is what is so frustrating to those who can reason and are not sold a bill of goods that is a lie--

[wildwww2]

20. And using my tax dollars to do it with I would suppose. Pure scum!

If the American people are stupid enough to keep these maggots in power then I guess we deserve the real screwing we are going to get.Not!
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[underpants]

22. How about a campaign to defend our soldiers?

Misplaced priorities.

[9215]

24. That takes substance

you're asking too much. All this smirking chimp can do is pose for the camera and utter incomprehensible drivel while cruizing toward disaster.

[tlcandie]

26. Well, if they are OUT there doing these PR gigs then the press

will have to cover those and NOT the Wilsongate LEAK! Also, interesting to me that they have this all scheduled and planned out like there is no investigation or any possibility that anything might change in the near future regarding someone in the WHorehouse not being able to make these appearances... hmmmm

I agree...Bush is a fraud...his taking of this pResidency has been a scam from day one. He is the front man and while everyone was busy oooing and ahhhing, the crooks were working behind the scenes.

Look at all of his businesses and all of their failings...ALL scams!

The question that remains is this...Will we come out with anything worth living for and any resources to help start the light of truth and justice burning again not only for our country but for the world?

[hatrack]

25. Another excuse for big-buck fundraising on the rubber chicken circuit

Does anyone - ANYONE - at the White House seriously think that people are going to give a shit about Operation Endless Bullshit, Phase VII?

Not when the layoffs continue right and left, despite all the happy-spin from OMB, Commerce and uber-whore Lou Dobbs.

Not when our soldiers in Iraq are eating one meal a day.

Not when Osama, Saddam, the anthrax killer and the oh-so-elusive WMDs remain unlocated.

Not when two or three or five or six of our men and women are dying every week for Halliburton and Bechtel.

Not when a two-day e-mail dump by the White House is passed off by ChimpCo as proof that no one at 1600 was involved in exposing Valerie Plame.

George, no one gives a shit. No one cares about your incoherent, lumpy verbal diarrhea. Condi, no one cares about you being "in charge" of Iraq now. Dick, no one cares about your bullshit assertions of "intent", "reconstitution of weapons systems" or "threats". I guess you might say, Dick (and I do mean Dick) that we all have other priorities now. Why don't you all just collectively STFU and have your buddies mail their checks to the RNC. You'd save time, we'd save money.

[Kool Kitty]

27. Another thought occured to me.

Is this being done because the misadministration feels that the media is only reporting the "bad news"? (And I am sure that what are already getting has been filtered, so it must be REAL bad.) Does this mean that all the news is going to get even more filtered (read:CENSORED)? I find this new "charm offensive" simply, well, offensive!

[Cocoa]

28. all they EVER have done is PR

I can't wait to see how they will top themselves.

[lanlady]

29. PR is all they know how to do!

This is the most policy-deprived bunch in history.

[PaDUer]

30. He needs to hide

in the closet and sniff glue! This guy makes me utterly sick!

[young_at_heart]

33. The Democratic party needs to launch it's own campaign

There needs to be more noise.....organized noise!

[tokenlib]

34. And Oct 25th the counter-attack hits DC!

It's time again to hit the streets! We'll let him know how impressed we are with his PR!

[goforit]

35. SPINSPINSPINSPIN......Keep your GD merry-go-round to your self W!!!

We donna want ta hear it!!!!