Sunday night, Bush "will talk about the importance of our mission"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush to Address the Nation on Iraq Sunday

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8EHM67G0.html

By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent

December 16,2005 | WASHINGTON -- President Bush will address the nation about Iraq on Sunday evening, his first speech from the Oval Office since he announced the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The address at 9 p.m. EST comes on the heels of a two-week, four-speech blitz to build support for a war that a majority of Americans now say was a mistake. The White House said it was asking television networks for live coverage of the president's address, expected to run less than 20 minutes.

"The Iraqi people have just concluded a historic election, and we now are entering a critical period for our mission in Iraq," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Friday. "The president will talk about the importance of our mission and the way forward in 2006," he said.

In his four speeches, Bush sought to explain his Iraq policy more clearly -- conceding that things have not gone as smoothly as he had hoped and emphasizing that much work needs to be done. The speeches brought forth an estimate from the president that 30,000 Iraqis have been killed in the invasion and its bloody aftermath. More than 2,150 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war, according to an Associated Press count.

Bush began the series on Nov. 30 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., by focusing on the progress in training Iraqi security forces. That was followed by an address to the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent think tank, about rebuilding Iraq's economy.

[izzie]

1. Sounds like the WH is working spin. Bush to look good from WH

Does amy one think he will say anything?It seems to be the back ground that he is looking for. This is a little better than that stuff he did in NO. He should have put a bag over his head before he did that one. This guy never stops at this stuff.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Definite spin...Keith Olbermann addressed this last night.

Spin to distract everyone from Harriet the Spy, also known as George W. Bush:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2317272&mesg_id=2317272

:patriot:

[MrBenchley]

3. Sonny Nobility on the stump

SSDD....

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Ah, yes, the glimmer of sunny nobility...

:evilgrin:

[MrBenchley]

11. It's a lose/lose situation...

The GOP sold us this drunk as "the next Churchill, only with folksy charm" but they could only get away with that when he was speaking behind closed doors and pundits gushed over what he said.

Now that they have to trot him out, America sees a smirky, twitchy frat boy who can barely stumble through what somebody else wrote on the teleprompter...

It used to be said the President had the toughest job in the world--with Chimpy, the toughest job in the world belongs to whoever has to keep him out of the liquor cabinet and adjust his meds.

[dusmcj]

15. let's not look for "leaders" whose ass we can lick

For most people, "leaders" are mysterious entities to whom they hand power, "recognition" and frequently their autonomy in exchange for being absolved of their own responsibility for appropriate action and ethical choices. All who yearn for "sunny nobility" need a solid kick in the ass and then reeducation sessions involving reading and discussion of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the writings of the Founders, plus regular manual labor in the great outdoors. Fresh air and exercise would put them back in touch with reality. A public consisting of indolent candyasses who are willing to give adulation to criminals and morons in exchange for being able to sit on their growing lardasses is our country's core problem; an active public which would ride the scumbags who populate too much of government out of town on a rail with a tar and feather coating is the solution.

[RagingInMiami]

4. "As our country learned on September 11th .................."

[Bozita]

6. Sunday speech will be a "Best of"... -- Think of Frank Luntz

I'd bet that Luntz had some groups wired for the four earlier speeches on Iraq.

Sunday night, we get to see what worked.

[Todd B]

7. Less than 20 minutes?

I guess he's getting better at the pronunciation of 9.11!

"My fellow Americans. Freedom. Freedom. 9.11. Freedom. Terra'. 9.11. Thank you."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Nahhhhhhhhhhhhn uh levin. Everything CHANGED, Stretch!

:evilgrin:

[WLKjr]

8. SOSDD (same old shit different day)n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

10. And he's going to ask viewers to call their Senators to get the PATRIOT

Act back for a vote. If at first you don't succeed . . .

He's going to use the appeal to the emotions to "blackmail" the repubs who defected to vote for the filibuster.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. My God

will he just SHUT THE FUCK UP for a day or two.

[adriennui]

14. i wish he would

just shut up and sit down. he's interfering with desperate housewives.

[SpiralHawk]

13. I hope he's scheduled against The Simpsons

Homer will cream him in the ratings.

D'oh