The catapulter-in-chief will give a "significant" speech on Thursday

[highplainsdem]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051002/pl_afp/usiraqbush_051002114154


WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush will this week attempt to rally Americans wavering on Iraq, as senior aides warn a quick exit for US troops could sow a deadly harvest of future terror attacks on US soil.

Officials say Bush will give a "significant" speech on Thursday, the latest shot in a volley of addresses on Iraq by top administration figures ahead of a referendum on Iraq's draft constitution on October 15.


Oh, tewwa, tewwa, tewwa... Be afwaid, be vewy vewy afwaid...

And it isn't even Halloween yet... :sarcasm:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. He pedalling fast, huh?

[tridim]

2. Thursday would be a great day for Fitz to issue indictments

Wonder if Bush will cancel the speech if he's indicted (or is named as a non-indicted co-conspirator)?

Next week could be the best week ever!

[zapp]

7. They're going to try to overshadow the indictements,,,

[highplainsdem]

10. I've been wondering about that, too, and about the SC nominee announcement

I really don't believe Bush hasn't made up his mind. I think they're waiting to see if any indictments are announced in the coming week.

[tridim]

14. They're going to overshadow high-level indictments with a * speech?

Good luck with that, traitors.

[zapp]

18. He'll try something like that cause he's a uniter not a divider

[Gman]

27. Short of another 9/11

there's not a whole lot of tricks left in that bag.

Bookmark this thread to see if we're right on this one.

[jim3775]

3. Another one? They're desperate

The networks hated carrying the last speech, they might decide not to show this one.

Edit: How many "significant" primetime speeches has bush given in the last 6 months? 2? 3?

[zapp]

16. He treated the News Organizations like Shit for a whole term

Now he expectes them to jump when he says jump. I would love to be a news exec right now. I'd say, "Mr. Resident, remember when you mistreated us? If you want me to lose millions in revenue, you had better start answering some real questions."

I would then be treated to a vacation at Camp X-Ray.

[shadowknows69]

24. yeah but you could look at your tortured face in a mirror with pride

[jim3775]

39. The goes beyond news execs, this is primetime

There are millions of dollars worth of ad revenues lost because of his speeches. Not to mention the ratings.

[tulsakatz]

31. even when he gives a speech.........

.......no one seems to watch them anymore!! At this point, I think only his base still watches his speeches and that group may also be shrinking.

[pecwae]

4. What, another one?

What else is going on on Thursday that he'll be pre-empting?

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Significant bullshit. n/t

[gordianot]

6. This is what happens when your schools fail to teach logic,

rhetoric and stifle creative thinking. That there would be any logic or rational thought in this premise is beyond credulity.

[NJCher]

great

Everytime he gives a speech on this topic, his ratings take a nosedive. Maybe he'll be down to the high 20s or low 30s after this one.

Keep shoveling, dumbya. There's nothing more satisfying than a repuke digging his own grave.




Cher

[jaysunb]

8. Funny...but I read this yesterday in an Aussie website.

Wonder why they get news before we do :grr:

[rbajai]

9. Oh sure, "significant..."

:eyes:

Every speech by that man is "significant," or so they say.

Like many here I wonder if it is to preempt indictments. But moreover I think it is to change the subject.

The real truth is Iraq is a total failure, a blunder, probably the worst in our history. And this is likely a last ditch effort to rally the troops. Unfortunately for * more and more of the people are waking up to the reality that Iraq was a deadly mistake for this country, for the Mideast, and for the world.

Nobody can tell me creating a terrorist, civil-war-torn state in the Middle East is "makin' progress" and "spreadin' freedom around the world." What a disaster. The man really does need to be impeached.

[Anywho6]

11. Early go at CYA for when we reach 2,000 dead U.S. soldiers n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Yeah, right. And I have this bridge here in Brooklyn....

[Dr Fate]

13. No one will watch. n/t

n/t

[jedr]

17. His Credibility is gone;

He better hope he's not up against the football game , or his market share will be about a 3.

[bostonbabs]

15. an insignificant president can't give a significant speech

....thats the point, he has lost credibility with America.....we get it George......its not about us ( WE the people) it's about you and you corporate whores.....we are governed by a vast group of varying whores......some worse than others but bottom line just whores.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll book a translater first thing in the morning

With his fractured command of the english language no one will know what he's saying..................

[Gman]

20. Other than Faux News

I doubt any MSM will carry the speech.

[shadowknows69]

21. Why can't the press just refuse to cover his drivel

what's going to be different? same shit different day. do a press conference georgie or are you afraid of a press that might have found its balls again. one or two of them anyway.

[McCamy Taylor]

22. Yawn. Polls won't budge.

[Marr]

23. He's going to resign in the wake of Fitzgerald's indictments.

HAHA! Yes, I'm kidding. Get ready for a whole lot of deja-bullshit.

Hey- does this mean the indictments are going to be announced on Thursday? They usually run simultaneous distractions from bad news.

[deadparrot]

25. Bush Bingo time!

Stay the course!
Freedom's on the march!

[mcscajun]

26. Again? WTF????

He's developing a fetish for ruining Thursday nights.

[Scurrilous]

28. If he preempts 'Joey'...

...I'll call it a wash.

[mcscajun]

29. Is that stll On?

I avoid nearly all broadcast TV, so I don't know.

I don't watch * no matter WHAT channel he shows up on. Still...he can ruin a good night.

[liveoaktx]

30. If you decide to listen, WATCH the Pentagon Videos first

Watch the incompetence of the Pentagon and hear them tell what the real scoop is-and it ain't what George says

[Pithy Cherub]

32. Is bush giving the speech in Iraq - that would be the only thing

"significant" for the media pundit whores about it. He has the same speech in 31 flavors: Lot's of terra, terra, terra, nookular weapons in the hands of terrwists, hard work, 9/11, fight em there, terra, Iraq voting, blah. blah. blah.

Now if there is going to be questions after the boring same iraq speech, well :popcorn:

Cuz, I really want to hear bush explain REPUBLICAN indictments, investigations, criminal conduct, Cheney's/Voldemorts health, Katrina response, FEMA foul ups, and why Libby and Rove are still allowed in the White House - it's supposed to be vermin free!

[jaysunb]

36. Great Post !

:toast:

[Vinca]

33. Bush is such a disgusting worm of a man.

Saturday morning I left the house early to go to yard sales. I stopped to pick up the local rag and there, on the front page, was the picture of another mother accepting an American flag. Her son, a good looking, young guy from a nearby town had been killed last week in Iraq. The expression on her face was so pained, I nearly burst into tears on the spot. Then I noticed the letter. Her son had written a letter to be read only in the case of his death and it was printed on the front page of the paper. It was heartbreaking. How Bush can defend this war and the continued loss of American and Iraqi life is beyond comprehension.

[WePurrsevere]

40. If there's a copy online of that soldiers letter I'd truly like to read it

perhaps others here would as well.

As for Bush being a "worm of a man" I'm not sure I'd out worms down that way, at least what they do and their "droppings" are of great value.

[Vinca]

44. Here's a link to the paper. I agree about the worms.

http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~3077155,00.html#

[WePurrsevere]

47. Thank you. So very touching. my heart goes out to that young man's family.

eom

[benddem]

34. what TV program will

he preempt this time. I cannot stand to even think about his twitchy jaw.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

35. Who is even going to pay attention anymore? His "speeches" are a joke.

Most of us, including repubs, can recite verbatim anything that he'll say.

What's the frickin' point? MKJ

[young_at_heart]

37. Someone watch for the telltale bulge on his back

I'm still furious that nobody did anything about his obvious coaching. If the MSM keep silent again, then we're doomed.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

38. He's such an asshat... nt

[Rex]

41. 911, 911, Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, Iraq, Iraq, Hurricane,

Freedom, freedom, freedom, Iraq, 911, Saddam, liberate, freedom, terrorists, freedom, liberate.

God bless America, God bless America, God bless America.

[gratuitous]

42. Another spew session? No questions?

Swell. I'd like to see one or more of the networks tell him to take a hike. If he wants to send a message, he can use Western Union, not the public airwaves. It's well past time for this administration to start answering questions.

[0007]

43. Will junior mention his buddy Tom DeLay or Bill Frist or

what a good job Fitzgerald is doing on the investigation of the Plame leak. Will junior talk about Brownie and the heck of a job he did in dysfunctional Louisiana.

We know he won't talk about the Plame leak being honed in on Rove and Lewis.

[Lefty48197]

45. Here's a few questions I would like him to answer:

1) Iraq has had their elections, and they have their constitution. Why are our troops still there?

2)The Republican House leader has been indicted for breaking campaign laws that gave the Texas Republicans enough votes to redraw their districts and ultimately keep the US House in Republican hands. Have you Republicans no shame?

3) Republican Senate leader Frist has apparently committed the same crime that landed Martha Stewart in jail. Are you going to pardon him?

4) Will you pledge to appoint qualifed individuals to fill important posts, such as the director of FEMA, instead of using the position for patronage appointments, as you did most recently?

5) Is your plan, relating to the Plame outing, to pardon VP Cheney for his involvement, then resign, so that he will become President, so that he can pardon YOU? After that, does Cheney plan to appoint you as VP, and then resign himself, so that you can become President again?

[dusty64]

46. ANOTHER bullshit desperate

speech interupting everyones tv on a Thursday. This is beyond exhausting, I feel a strong wave of * fatigue coming on from the citizenry.

[Buns_of_Fire]

48. They SAY it'll be broadcast from the St. Reagan Building

My guess: it'll be broadcast from Air Force One, from outside the 12-mile-limit. boosh*, holding a martini, with the top officials of his administration standing in the background, will direct the camera to show many crates, most stamped "U.S. Treasury," the rest stamped "Jack Daniels Distillery." The camera will swing back around to boosh*, catching him giving an affectionate squeeze to Condi.

The gist of the address: We didn't LUUUUUUUUUUUUV him enough, so he's taking what's left of the Treasury and his administration and flying to an unnamed country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. "To hell with all of you," it'll end. "I hereby resign. So long, suckers!"

You heard it here first.

[stevietheman]

49. Well, since the American people know far more about Iraq than the...

Preznit, there's no reason to watch. We know it's a disaster. Pull the troops out now! End of story.

No more attention for this president. And no more compromises with the fascists in power.

[napi21]

50. Significant speech??? He hasn't ever done that before.

Why should I believe this one will be any different?

Who cares anyway. I'm not going to listen. Can't stand to hear his coice anymore!

DUers will report just how bad he does, and I'll read that here.

[Garbo 2004]

51. Small problem, generals recently testified in Congress that US presence

in Iraq is only making things worse there. (These were actively serving generals, not retired.) They of course weren't calling for immediate pull out but a "gradual" drawing down. But what they had to say certainly wasn't "stay the course."

And the Repubs up for reelection in 2006 really want don't want Iraq to still be an issue by election time.

Bush's ability as a salesman is greatly diminished and all the photo ops and speeches aren't going to bring back those who once supported him and now have turned against his Administration and policies.