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The President's State of the Union speech comes up on Tuesday, giving him one more chance to convince both the public and the House and Senate that his plan for Iraq is the right plan. He will, no doubt, wish to 'stay the course' in his speech and he will not give in to any idea's but his own.
As was with his childhood, he is a sore loser and he will not give up even if he knows that he is wrong. He is just attempting to change the rules a little bit but with the same outcome as before.
The Democrat's do not support an 'escalation' and many Republicans do not either. Other GOP members are trying to get out from under the Bush fiasco as they clearly understand that they will not be re-elected in 2008 if they stick with the Bush rhetoric.
It is being suggested by former speech writers that Bush needs to be more forceful, blunt or combative in his speech to rebuff both his critics and the Democrats.
White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino:
"President Bush will discuss his determination to defeat the terrorists who are part of a broader extremist movement that is now doing everything it can to defeat us in Iraq. If the extremists prevail in Iraq, the American people will be less safe and our enemies will be emboldened and more lethal." Yahoo News Article
Bush probably will try to link the war to the threat to America since the Sept. 11 attacks because fighting terrorism has such widespread appeal, said Bruce Riedel, a former official at the National Security Council and analyst at the liberal Brookings Institution.
"Fear is a commodity that the administration has sold before, and right now they're not having much success with the public or the Congress with the arguments they've trotted out on the (troop) surge," said Ridel.
So it looks as if the 'fear card' will be taking the spotlight once again. This time around we will really get to see if the public is still so ignorant and stupid as to listen to anything this sack of shit says!
