The Speech George Bush Should Make Tuesday Night

“The disaster is that you, Congress and the American people, do not care to fight.

Faced with a fundamental challenge to our own security, to everything we believe in, to the world order to peace and security for which we and our parents fought so hard for so many years, you now want to pretend like none of these threats are real. You want to surrender to the evil I have been telling you about. An evil that, unchecked, can consume large parts of the world and threatens to usher in a dark age.

You didn’t like it when I talked about evil. Sounded too simple, too uncompromising, too moralistic. Too … biblical.

I don’t know what else you call people who fly passenger jets into office buildings; who rape women in front of their husbands and children, and execute their opponents in acid baths; who seek to spread tyrannical and archaic religious regimes that enslave women and stifle fundamental freedoms. Who want to dominate the world’s primary oil fields with nuclear weapons.

I call it evil. Works for me.

I’ve heard all the comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam. George Bush’s Vietnam. The myopia is astonishing, even for me, George Bush, who you all think just isn’t that smart. But I learned something in school: People who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

If you scroll down on the comments to this post, (the commenters had a heated debate) I left this comment:
Jenny Hatch :
I’ve been wondering these past few weeks how the war would have gone if the majority of Americans, especially those who have access to the media’s soap boxes, would have come out early and loudly in favor of the war.
Just last night I watched the National Geographic Documentary on 9-11. It was a sobering reminder to watch the final five minutes as various people shared their views on what it was going to take to get America to be in fighting mode.
Right after that show was over, my husband and I watched 24, which was the first episode after the nuke went off in LA. At one point I turned to my husband and said, “I just can’t see Hillary or any democrat being able to handle this sort of a terrorist attack.”
And that is the sort of test that America and the next president will potentially have to face.
In the final analysis this is the test for our generation and the next few presidential administrations.
President Bush may have to yet deal with Nuclear Terror in his final two years.
And it is likely that our next president will have to deal with unimaginable terror in our heartland.
Question is, Do we want these future acts dealt with as Clinton Dealt with the first Trade Center Bombing and all of the other attacks on our citizens and troops around the world during his presidency?
Monica servicing the president under his desk in the oval office while our soldiers died.
Or do we want a response like we had after 9-11?
Complete Resolve and total Clarity.
Its a no brainer to me.
I don’t really care what he says tonight. He has been the absolute right man at the right time in our nations history. God Bless President Bush and God Bless our Troops!
Jenny Hatch
Jan 23, 2007 09:15 AM
Jenny Hatch