Bush Responds to Sheehan Protest in Weekly Radio Address

[cal04]

President George W. Bush, in his weekly radio address, stood firm behind his goals and policies in Iraq, but also showed that he felt he needed to respond, in a high-profile way, to the protest of a mother who lost her son in that war, which is taking place just down the road from his Crawford ranch and gaining wide media play. “In recent days, we have seen again that the path to victory in the war on terror will include difficult moments,” the president said near the end of his speech. “Our nation grieves the death of every man and woman we lose in combat, and our hearts go out to the loved ones who mourn them. Yet, even in our grief, we can be confident in the future, because the darkness of tyranny is no match for the shining power of freedom.”

Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, is demanding to meet the president during his five-week vacation in Crawford in hopes of learning why he had to die, and for what. Her story was featured on the front page of the The Washington Post today and in hundreds of other papers, as well. Bush seemed to go out of his way to provide, at least from a distance, part of an answer to Sheehan’s plea for explanations: “So we will honor the fallen by completing the mission for which they gave their lives, and by doing so we will ensure that freedom and peace prevail.”

Responding further to calls by Sheehan and others for a quick withdrawal from Iraq, Bush showed that he needed to take seriously the growing public opposition to the war. “We're hunting down the terrorists and training the security forces of a free Iraq so Iraqis can defend their own country,” he said. “Our approach can be summed up this way: As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down. And when that mission of defeating the terrorists in Iraq is complete, our troops will come home to a proud and grateful nation.”

But he closed the speech this way: “The terrorists cannot defeat us on the battlefield. The only way they can win is if we lose our nerve. That will not happen on my watch. Withdrawing our troops from Iraq prematurely would betray the Iraqi people, and would cause others to question America's commitment to spreading freedom and winning the war on terror.” Various national polls this week suggested that better than 6 in 10 Americans feel the U.S. is on the wrong track in Iraq, with better than half feeling the war was mistake and now favor the beginning of a pullout.

E&P Staff
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[Lindacooks]

1. That's not a response, that's reading a speech

written for him, and probably spelled out phoenetically on the paper so he can get all those big words out.

[malmapus]

3. Yeah a "response" from him would sound like

We uh...a..uh, what you....you have to ...uh ...understand ...is...that we...are uhh

[Maestro]

6. Classic *.

Tongue tied and twisted. The story of Pretzelnut!

[yorkiemommie1]

5. my thoughts exactly

this was a carefully crafted speech w/ all of the flowery freedom phrases crammed in it.

[rodeodance]

10. unfortuately, the RW'ers will believe this editorial. uga uga

[cliss]

11. You beat me to it.

WOW, you can REALLY tell the difference between the "Reading Bush" and the "unrehearsed Bush". I recall the maggot Bush surfacing this week, to talk about Cindy Sheehan (I think it was Wednesday).

It was lots of "uh- eh -, well uh- We can't leave now - hm- it would be giving in to the enemy - that's it yes - we can't lost now - stammer, stutter, think think....try to formulate sentence.

Now look at this: "darkness of tyranny" and "shining power of freedom". Where did his speechwriters get their experience. Did any of them work for Marvel Comics, or maybe Dark Horse comics?

Cause it sure is Comicspeak.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. It's pretty obvious that this was written for him.

For one thing, it uses coherent sentences, which is something that Bush is unable to manage. If he had to take a pop quiz on this, he probably wouldn't be able to recall anything that he had said.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. So get off the damn radio, put away your platitudes,

and meet with the lady, ya pussy.

[ticapnews]

4. In other words...

the enemy can't defeat us.

Only the liberals can defeat us by making us weak.

Lovely.

[Maestro]

7. That is the framing they are doing.

Time to battle them one on one.

[ticapnews]

15. Every Liberal is now an enemy of the Republic

from the Star Wars perspective...

Or, from an historical point of view:

What is the Final Solution to the Liberal question in America?

http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html

[Ruffhowse]

8. Won't lose our nerve on his watch?

He doesn't have any nerve left to lose! He lost all his long ago dodging the draft in Viet Nam. Amazing how bellicose and brash he likes to sound from the safety of his pig farm surrounded by an army of Secret Service, thousands and thousands of miles from where he sent good men and women to die in Iraq.

[Gyre]

9. What a pansy!

Can't even bring himself to meet a citizen (who he's deeply wronged) face to face. He's an effin coward!

Gyre

[rodeodance]

12. this editoralist is a a real bushco suck up!!

.....Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, is demanding to meet the president during his five-week vacation in Crawford in hopes of learning why he had to die, and for what. Her story was featured on the front page of the The Washington Post today and in hundreds of other papers, as well. Bush seemed to go out of his way to provide, at least from a distance, part of an answer to Sheehan’s plea for explanations: “So we will honor the fallen by completing the mission for which they gave their lives, and by doing so we will ensure that freedom and peace prevail.”

Responding further to calls by Sheehan and others for a quick withdrawal from Iraq, Bush showed that he needed to take seriously the growing public opposition to the war.

[rodeodance]

13. here is their email address (if you have the urge to email them).

E&P Staff ([email protected])

Bush Responds to Sheehan Protest in Weekly Radio Address

By E&P Staff

Published: August 13, 2005 12:05 PM ET

NEW YORK President George W. Bush, in his weekly radio address, stood firm behind his goals and policies in Iraq, but also showed that he felt he needed to respond, in a high-profile way, to the protest of a mother who lost her son in that war, which is taking place just down the road from his Crawford ranch and gaining wide media play.

“In recent days, we have seen again that the path to victory in the war on terror will include difficult moments,” the president said near the end of his speech. “Our nation grieves the death of every man and woman we lose in combat, and our hearts go out to the loved ones who mourn them. Yet, even in our grief, we can be confident in the future, because the darkness of tyranny is no match for the shining power of freedom.”

Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, is demanding to meet the president during his five-week vacation in Crawford in hopes of learning why he had to die, and for what. Her story was featured on the front page of the The Washington Post today and in hundreds of other papers, as well.......

[Bluerthanblue]

14. where the hell is the shining power of freedom????

cause this nation is growing darker and darker by the second-

His words are worse than cotton candy- they don't even melt in your mouth- fluff- stuff and nonsense.

empty useless bullshit. worse than that, at least you can burn bullshit and be warmed by it, or cook over it.-

His speechwriters are getting desperate.

[classysassy]

17. The rabid

rightwing cowards are on the attack.Fred"chickenhawk"Barnes,called Mrs.Sheehan a misguided nutcase,most of the morons( thats morans to you dickless conmen)are attacking her motives,of course none of those dickheads have son or daughters fighting in bush war 2.

[wli]

18. here comes the Homeland Offense Gestapo to kill all the Democrats

That was a relatively overt declaration that the "insufficiently pro-war" are enemies of the state.