Bush U.N. speech persuades few

[lanlady]

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 — President Bush came under heavy criticism both at home and abroad after he rejected a speedy transfer of power to Iraqis during his speech Tuesday at the United Nations. Bush urged other nations to share the burden in Iraq, but world leaders and nearly all his Democratic presidential rivals accused Bush of being responsible for the postwar difficulties in bypassing the United Nations to launch the war that ousted Saddam Hussein....

http://www.msnbc.com/news/965704.asp?vts=092420030125

[Democat]

1. Persuades none

The U.S. media can't bring themselves to tell the truth.

Bush's speech didn't persuade one person of anything other than the fact that Americans need to vote for someone else in 2004.

[Enraged_Ape]

3. That's just not true, Democat

I understand there is a head-injured busboy at the UN coffee shop who said he thought the speech "was pretty good. What did he say?"

[emad]

2. The UK's BBC panned it too last night...

saying they thought the speechwriters had really toned the whole thing down. I thought he looked scared and witless, just like Pinochet when they busted him in the UK and held him under house arrest....

[cliss]

4. You really have to wonder about his speechwriter.

There were lots of people here at DU who commented about the 'sex slavery' thing. What was the point of bringing that up? And to spend 5 entire minutes on it? The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) made the comment that the speech was baffling, raised more questions than it answered.

Remember the State of the Union speech a while back? He did the same thing then. Towards the end of the speech, he completely changed the subject and brought up the issue of AIDS in Africa. Promised to provide funding, which he has since reneged on.

I think this is a diversionary tactic. It's designed to throw people off balance, to surprise and shock them, and to get the cacocphony started.

It's weird.

Never, in the history of this country, has a group of people like these been assembled. Man, they are eccentric, unpredictable, anything goes. EXPECT ANYTHING FROM THESE GUYS.

[pfitz59]

5. Expect anything...but the truth!

This PNAC bunch ae truly vile. Shrub's UN speech was a waste of air. The US has lost 100 years or more of international cooperaton since Shrub took over. Impeach the monkey.