MSM: "Bush rhetoric hard to square with facts"

[rpgamerd00d]

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush promised a diplomatic offensive to win support for Iraq from Middle Eastern countries that, if anything, have become more hostile to U.S. policy in Iraq since Saddam Hussein's execution.

In doses of rhetoric hard to square with facts in the region, Bush portrayed the ordinary people of the Middle East as being behind U.S. goals in Iraq, in his speech to the nation Wednesday night.

"They want to know: Will America withdraw and yield the future of that country to the extremists — or will we stand with the Iraqis who have made the choice for freedom?"

The war that toppled Saddam Hussein's Sunni-run regime has rekindled the centuries-old divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the region, suspicions that have grown stronger since Saddam's Dec. 30 execution.

more at link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_fact_check_1

[rpgamerd00d]

1. Thanks for the rec!

[Eugene]

2. Bush rhetoric reveals the same neocon hallucination as always.

Bush acknowledges that things aren't going as smoothly as planned.
That's all. At the end of his speech he says that success in Iraq
will show the way forward in the Middle East. Same old nonsense.
Bush is still promising to establish peace in the Middle East
by remaking its countries to America's liking. That cannot
possibly work.

[MoseyWalker]

3. will we stand with the Iraqis who have made the choice for freedom?"

The invading and occupying US forces are the people who decided to choose "freedom" for the Iraqi populations. How many interviews from Iraqi people have you heard, recently or ever, in which they stated they were standing with the US for "freedom"?

I don't remember a single one. It seems like another delusionary statement to me.