President Bush in Salt Lake City addresses American Foreign Legions Convention
I couldn’t help looking at the content of the story and wondering who wrote the story for the President? The question comes up do they just pole American voters and find out what they want to hear? Speaking to a convention of veterans words like “Nazis” and “Communists” win support in a very unpopular war.
Veterans and most Americans have a very clear picture in their mind when you say words like “Nazis and Communists” they get a picture of soldiers in uniforms with weapons displayed in plan view. The words “Nazis and Communists” don’t bring images of the mother taking her children to the market or the citizen walking to work or the truck driver or the immigrant farm worker. But that is what our military is dealing with you can’t tell the soldiers from the civilians. This is not “Nazis and Communists” it is not military against military, it is a group of thugs that are trying to kill every day citizens, women and children.
While I would agree only with the President in saying, “If we just up and leave it would be disastrous” I must highly disagree with his terminology and his plan as it exists now. Do we even know what his plan is? The only time we have heard the President say what he is thinking is when he forgets a microphone is on.
I can’t tell you what the answer to Iraq is, or Lebanon and Israel; I don’t have all the facts. But I know how to speak the truth and I know how to think for myself, what would happen if people, (Not Professional Politicians… Okay Politicians too), what would happen if they started speaking the truth, tell about their plans, and there dreams, instead of speaking what someone else wrote after checking the sound bits to see how it plays in the poles. How about if they spoke from the heart, and told you what they were trying to do?
Sure not everyone would agree, but that is America, and the right to freedom. This much I know, we are not fighting NAZIS and COMMUNISTS, it seems that we are fighting politicians and that is wrong. They work for the American people and if they are not doing their job then we should vote them out of office and elect someone else. If you don’t vote then don’t complain. Each vote counts even if to say I want to make a difference, I still care about America and the American way of life.
They say that only 25 to 30% of all registered voters vote. How bad does it have to get before the rest of the voters start voting, more importantly what would happen if they did?
Ah yes. The ex-military genius who states his limited military knowledge but goes ahead with the detailed analysis and the condemnation, without a cure, anyway.
Yep. Regardless of how they vote, one can always spot a weak-kneed liberal when they pop their wind sucking head up out of the grass long enough to wave their yellow flag of cowardice.
Mr Burch, try making the military decisions that effect an ongoing operation based on secret military intelligence without giving away protected zones of source, all while idiots like you (and better qualified idiots, with real media jobs) hash out every word you utter.
Is there any wonder Mr Bush has a whole staff of trusted professionals help him “speak his mind?”
And, which is it, Mr Burch, “Get out of Iraq, or stay and obtain peace through victory?” There is no middle ground.
Geesh, Stewart, one would think that you were never in Viet Nam at all.
Now, the really powerful thing that you wrote was to clean house. I can’t argue with that. In that, you and I are not only in the same boat, we each are operating an oar and are hopefully rowing in the right direction.
I long ago gave up the idea that I had the luxury of voting my conscience. There are so many good men out there who could do a great job presidenting, but they are unelectable because, as you know, in our current form of election, one needs means and a consensus in order to run. And these elements do not come cheap.
What’s the answer? And, please notice the negative space under this question.