What Horse Puckey! WHY Bush just gave that speech

[CaptainMidnight]

Jesus,

There are enough comments and threads here already that wil comment on that pathetic speech, itself.

But I just saw a quick 10-second mention that Colin Powell was appearing before some House Committee, having to explain himself and why the Bush Cabal had been claiming there were WMD's in Iraq. Powell's appearance was being covered on CSPAN, at least. They mentioned that it was getting very contentious, with some shouted exchanges, and that the Congressmen even brought up AWOL Bush!

This completely SUPERFLUOUS SPEECH Bush gave about wanting to stop the proliferation of WMD's was a complete DISTRACTION STUNT, so we woudnt' tune in and watch Powell hang himself before the Committee. They also needed to turn the media away from his AWOL story, which has FINALLY sprung some legs. It also let Bush speak of the non-existant "Terror Threat" which is still upon us.

Completely unnecessary, like cobbling together a speech to speak out against tooth decay, and calling for the need to brush and floss regularly!

Captain Mike

[Robin Hood]

1. war, scare, war, vote for me, rinse, repeat.

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P.S. Good observation on why he gave this little bullshit campaign speech. I just got a little clip of powell on CNN but that was it. You couldn't tell what was going on there. Is there someplace that we can see the Powell grilling?

[progressiverealist]

4. hey you forgot "tax relief"

that's how you fix any economic problem.

[Sticky]

2. Kate Couric questioned Condi Rice this morning

....on the "timing" of this speech today as it just seemed to pop up on his schedule.

Katie asked, "Is this speech today and attempt tp distract Americans from the TANG issue"?

Condi said no and I guess she was telling the truth....the speech popped up to distract Americans from Colin Powell inquisition.

;-)

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Condi's no longer sure what lies she's currently telling.

[theoceansnerves]

3. WHO

was he giving it to? did they ever mention? ugh.

[Adams Wulff]

7. The Choir

The National Defense University

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. yep

distraction from the bs finally being exposed.

[beyurslf]

8. How long before the terror level increases because of the

intercepted messages? :)

[CaptainMidnight]

9. APPLAUSE!

Was that hilarious or what?

Each time they "broke into applause" it seemed so bloody scripted, like a sitcom!

It reminded me of some Monty Python sketch, where a character would be making some mock speech, or impersonating the Queen or England, and then they would switch on the applause, and then it would cut right off, just as quickly.

The "applause" was absolutely absurd!

Captain Mike