President Bush to meet with regular folks --- NOT! From today's
Radio Address: (slightly formatted)
During the coming weeks, I will meet with some of the brave men and women who have been on the front lines in the war on terror.- Next week in Idaho, I will visit with some of the fine citizen soldiers of the Idaho National Guard.
- I will also see the men and women of the Mountain Home Air Force Base ...
- Next week, in Utah, I will also address the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention ...
- At the end of the month, I will join our veterans and current service members in San Diego to commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day
The rest of the address was talk about fighting the terrorists. The only slightly positive note was this highly qualified statement:
... we're spreading the hope of freedom across the broader Middle East.
We're not spreading freedom any more. Now it's the
hope of freedom.
Of interest: In
last week's Radio Address there were a few mentions of substantive events: (formatted)
- ... I met in Texas with Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the rest of my senior foreign and defense policy advisors.
- ... Iraq's elected leaders are now finishing work on a democratic constitution.
- We're hunting down the terrorists and training the security forces of a free Iraq so Iraqis can defend their own country.
But none of that in today's address.
posted by Quiddity at 8/20/2005 08:51:00 AM
It's going to be interesting to hear him explain how the United States has fulfilled its stated goals in Iraq by establishing a fundamentalist Islamic state there.
$200 billion and 2,000 American lives to make the world that much worse.
