Bush’s Speech, Calls Democrats On Rewriting History
Posted on November 11, 2005
“While it’s perfectly legitimate to criticize my decisions or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began,” the president said in a Veterans Day speech in Pennsylvania.
Bush knocks it out of the park.
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President Bush fires back at critics of the war in Iraq and says “it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.”
In a Veterans Day speech, Bush offered a forceful defense of the war in Iraq, saying it is the central front in the war on terror and that extremists are trying to establish a radical Muslim empire extending from Spain to Indonesia.
“We will never back down. We will never give in. We will never accept anything less than complete victory,” Bush said Friday.
The speech in Monroe County was billed by the White House as a focused counter-attack on critics who say the administration twisted pre-war intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Bush made reference to criticism from members of Congress and chided Senators who supported his decision to go to war, including his 2004 Democratic rival for president, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).
Bush said the United States and its allies are determined to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of extremists and prevent them from gaining control of any country.
The president’s remarks at the Tobyhanna Army Depot were part of the administration’s effort to bolster waning U.S. public support for the war in which at least 2,059 U.S. troops have died.
Bush singled out Syria for particular criticism, saying its government had taken “two disturbing steps” in recent days. He cited the arrest of Syria pro-democracy activist Kamal Labwani and a “strident speech” by President Bashar Assad.
People saying Bush is back in his groove. Bush called the democrats on rewriting history. He counteracted the democrats lies that intelligence was manipulated, and that the American people were lied to. The democrats had the same intelligence, and voted to remove Saddam out of power. Bush sets the record straight. Bush says we must stay the course and win this war on terror.
He also states that these terrorists are not freedom fighters, or resistance, but evil men. He called it like it is, adding that its time for responsible Islamic leaders to step up and denounce the evil that is going on around them. In his 50 minute speech this Veterans day, he stated that the best way to honor our vets is to stay the course.
President Bush on Friday reiterated the need to defeat extremists seeking to destroy America and other modern governments, saying the “murderous ideology of Islamic radicals” is the great threat of the 21st century.
He also called “baseless” claims from Democrats and others that his administration misconstrued or lied about pre-war intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein did in fact have weapons of mass destruction.
“The stakes in the global War on Terror … are too high for the politicians to throw out false charges,” Bush said. “These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an ememy that is questioning America’s will.”FOX
It was more than past time that the President called the critics out on their lies - sick and cruel lies; lies which merely encourage the enemy to kill more people, including more American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. There is not the slightest truth in the anti-war criticism - each and every assertion they have made about pre-war intelligence and the course of the war in Iraq has been false from the start. I am sick and tired of it - and I’m glad that the President is sick and tired of it. Blogs For Bush
And he should tell Americans how to prove that Democrats are rewriting the pre-war history for themselves—by Googling “Clinton Iraq 1998.” He would show that he’s a wired, in-touch president, and he would lead skeptical Americans to knowledge that they need in order to understand just how craven and dishonest the Democrats have been. That is one good way to win back the trust that he has allowed the left to steal from him.Junkyard Blog
Let’s hope this augurs the beginning of a strong and concerted administration pushback against the scurrilous charges being leveled by many of his political opponents. Pointedly, Bush used the term “some Democrats” to label those opponents—a designation that I believe is important, because it signals that the partisan gloves are about to come off, and that Democratic leaders who have been making strong public accusations questioning the honesty and good faith of the administration (I’m looking at you Harry and Howard and Nancy) are about to be forcefully challenged on those claims.
Finally. Finally. Finally. Jeff Goldstein
Others: Washington Post
Michelle Malkin
Insty
Rightwing News has a partial transcript
The Whitehouse
Full Transcript at Washington Post
Already the left have started their spin.
New York Times
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It is about time. I was good to hear him sound like his old self.
I would say this is sign like last nights speech by Rove that they are getting it together.
Now that’s the commander-in-chief that I love!
Now if he would just do this every day thru the end of the year……
You are operating from false assumptions. You do not understand the lefts point of view and demonize it at the expense of the community. The ACLU is not anti christian. Many members are christians. It’s a shame that you wrap yourself in the flag but your activities and opinions don’t represent the freedom and liberty preserved by our consitution. In other words, it’s your activities that are un-American. You say you support the troops but aren’t upset at Republicans killing veterans benefits and not providing equipment the troops need. Instead you prefer to make wild baseless claims about anyone who disagrees with you. It’s a shame you abandon objective thought and fact checking and instead get lathered up with GOP talking points. Your party has been lying to you. Instead of having a healthy discussion of prayer in schools for an example, you’d rather claim that those you disagree with are anti christian zealots. Fortunately middle Ameerica is waking up to the current political climate that conservatives have created.
if the left was present during our war of independece we would still be a britsh colony
i am sick of hee-haw news (gloom dispare agony
Bush is and always will be an idiot. No one is rewriting history. We do, however, want to know why he lied if the rape of Iraq is justified. Why can’t he stop lying? According to his own Iraqi commanders there is only one fully trained and ready Iraqi battallions on the ground in Iraq. Three weeks later Bush told the american people that there are now 80 battallions and just this week he said ninety! Why can’t he just tell the truth, apologise to us and leave office after making sure Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rove oh yeah and work wife to (I’ve gotta pee) are all indicted for treason and murder.
…These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community’s judgments related to Iraq’s weapons programs…
Nicely said Mr. Rove! And nicely read Mr. Bush! Sadly, this statement isn’t exactly true. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence isn’t finished its investigation into possible distortions of intelligence by officials in the Bush Administration. And the chairman of Bush’s commission on WMD, Judge Laurence H. Silberman, said “Our executive order did not direct us to deal with the use of intelligence by policymakers, and all of us were agreed that that was not part of our inquiry.”
…They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein.
This is, of course, and echo of what Dick Cheney said in January 2004 [Note: Since Bush has emphatically stated that he DOES NOT read newspapers, I’m not implying that he stole the idea from Dick) :
”The reporting that we had prior to the war … basically said that he had a chemical, biological and nuclear program, and estimated that if he could acquire fissile material, he could have a nuclear weapon within a year or two. Based on that there wasn’t any way the administration could ignore those findings of the intelligence community in terms of thinking about the threat that Saddam Hussein represented.”
Yeah! You tell ‘em, Dick! Oh, but maybe you should also tell ‘em that what that report actually said was that the Iraqis could acquire nuclear bombs, but that it would most likely take them four to six years to do so. The only way that the one or two year scenario would be plausible would be if the Iraqis were able to acquire fissile material on the black market and that would be highly unlikely, since they’d tried since the 1970’s and filed each time.
Sweet and Sour Jesus on an open-faced bun, Dick, you should be more careful! By stressing the unlikely one-to-two-year scenario over the much, much more plausible four-to-six-year scenario it kinda looks like you manipulated intelligence in an attempt to deceive the American public. And nobody, and I mean NOBODY, likes a fibber!
You guys are hillarious in your paranoia.
IF you believe the our Chimp-in-Chief is a lying, murderous Texan who invaded Iraq, and should tell every American the real reason he decided on this imperial war for oil, then please, click on the link below…
http://www.parrotcheck.com/photos/truthbetold.jpg
I am having a really hard time believing that the leftie war resistors don’t understand that their memes have been debunked time and time again. Are they that dense? Oh, wait, rhetorical question!
Yeah, they are that dense. That’s why responding to them is practically useless.
No blood for oil!
Halliburton!
Bush lies men die!
No WMD!
And all the rest. thoroughly debunked and for a long time now.
Those who don’t wish to see it; well they’ve got their heads in the sand. But there’s no way in hell that we should give into the likes of–the Revolutionary Communist Party whose November 2 campaign was “Drive out the Bush Regime” and all the other commie groups who side with the terrorists simply because they hate capitalism.
They don’t realize that half of them or even more than that–would be murdered by the islamofascists for not converting to Islam.
So really, they’re just feeding the alligator so it will eat them last.
Jude: “The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence isn’t finished its investigation”
Sure, Jude. Join right up with the loony Democrats. The investigation isn’t over until they find what they’re looking for. And if they can’t find the evidence they want, they’ll just make it up, right?
And Jude, I’m sorry that you’re disappointed that the Iraqi’s didn’t obtain nuclear weapons. I guess you would be much happier if they had nukes. Perhaps you’d support the US just giving them some damn nukes so they could further destablize the region and lead us right into WW III, wouldn’t you?