Bush's U.N. Speech Gets Scathing Reviews on Capitol Hill

[ixion]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — President Bush's speech to the United Nations received scathing reviews today from Capitol Hill Democrats, including some who would like to have Mr. Bush's job.

"I think the president lost an opportunity," Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the minority leader, told reporters. "He came before the international community and he could have made the case for more troops, for more resources. He didn't do that."

Mr. Daschle, who is not running for president, continued: "He has now asked for $87 billion more. And I wish he would have made a stronger case, a better case with more specificity about a plan. He hasn't presented a plan to the United Nations. He hasn't presented one to this country or to this Congress. It was a missed opportunity, and that's very disappointing."


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/politics/23CND-COST.html?ex=1064980800&en=a2a6755b68e65b4d&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE


Scathing... yeah, that fits it. :evilgrin:

[Noordam]

1. Short Link

http://tinyurl.com/ofay

[sistersofmercy]

2. It's amazing to me the utter stupidity of *, blinded by hubris.

[patdem]

3. I agree...if David Stout considers these remarks 'scathing'

what is 'scandelous'? Probably the Kennedy remarks...but NEVER what bush* says...ever??? I am so confused, frustrated, befuddled....is there no journalist that disects...investigates...reports??? Or are we all just subject to the propaganda of the pentagon? :grr:

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. this is the begining of the end for the boy

who wanted to be king nobody is taking the lies anymore

[fla nocount]

5. Ol' Mealy Mouthed Daschle blew an opportunity too.

To rip into the oaf in office. "It was a missed opportunity, and that's very disappointing." Please, he walks the same corridors as Byrd and Kennedy and it seems he hasn't learned a thing except to spell three letter words, DNC and DLC.

[Nottingham]

6. Bush was pathetic! I have to admit

:bounce: Missed a chance ....He didn't have a chance

[lindashaw]

7. Scathing, schmathing, I could throw a better tantrum...

I was just reading about how heads were going to roll over the WMD fiasco.

"This is potentially very serious," said one Congressional aide. "If it's shown we went to war because of intelligence that was 'cooked' by the administration, heads will have to roll, and not just little heads, big ones."

Did any heads roll? Even a teensy one? Of course not! And none of this ever touches Bush 'cause he never reads the newspapers. You don't think one of his aides told him about Tom Daschle, do you?

Sorry, I'm a bit upset...:)

[Q]

8. Bush* hasn't had a plan other than PNAC...

...for three years now. This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone.

- They'll give him the money anyway.

[dArKeR]

9. From Bush, a plea to ‘move forward’ - MSGOP

IN A SPEECH that began by recalling the horrors of the 9/11 attacks, Bush tried to lay to rest the notion that the United States had written off the United Nations as a serious concern in its foreign policy. But even as he endorsed and honored the work of the United Nations and reaffirmed U.S. support for the concept of collective security, he remained unapologetic about his decision to lead a coalition to war against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq over the objections of the U.N. Security Council.

http://msnbc.com/news/970509.asp?0cv=CB10

1. Junior has again tied Saddam to 9/11 which is false.
2. When there's a murder in the US the police just don't forget it and move on. Where's the Independent Prosecutor to investigate the butchering of 40,000 Iraqis? And the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld charges of 'Accessory to Wrongful Death' of our soldiers in Iraq?

[dArKeR]

10. Short on Friends - Bush U.N. Speech Doesn’t Impress (Poll too)

Is President Bush right to resist pressure to speed up the transfer of power and give the U.N. a much greater role in Iraq?
* 22787 responses

Yes. Yielding would be a recipe for failure.
 41%

No. The U.S. needs to do more to garner international support.
 48%

Unsure. There are both plusses and minuses to the U.S. approach.
 11%


http://msnbc.com/news/970796.asp?0cl=c1

[damnraddem]

11. It's good to see Dem pols t;rying to grow spines, now that ...

the path has been paved for them by a few, so that the spineless need grow only a rudimentary spine in order to ambulate on that path.

Unfortunately, most Dem pols layed down and gave Dubya a free hand for so long -- "It was a missed opportunity, and that's very disappointing."

But I'll be happier when I start hearing those scathing comments coming from a few Republicans, too -- then I'll know that Dubya is really in trouble.

[Southsideirish]

13. ...Howard Dean paved the way for the rest of them to step forward.

He spoke up with honesty and courage when they were all quaking in their Gucci's.

[JPace]

12. AWOL surrounded himself with power

hungry individuals who consider compromising
and sharing power to be unnecessary and undesirable.
They believe they are a cut above everybody else
and their arrogance is starting to boomerang.

Everything decision they have made is starting
to fall apart or show deep flaws that can no
longer be hidden.

I think they honestly don't know how to be humble,
how to admit to mistakes, how to regroup in such
a way as to be inclusive. They are in deep doo doo
unless someone comes forward to show them how to
change. I think they are going try to do the same
thing in the same old way while expecting different
results........its called insanity.

[cliss]

14. Looks like the old boy has painted

himself into a corner. He knows he's blown it with Iraq. He now has to go "hat in hand" (I never believed that, did you?) to the UN and "beg" for help.

Instead, he came out swinging at the UN today, apologizing to no one. It's almost like he's saying "I dare you to help me".

He knows, and his cronies know, that they despise and loathe the UN. They would rather die than give up even 1 ounce of Iraqi sand to these amateurs.

SO -- he got to keep his pride, and comprimised nothing.

However, there's one small detail which will still torpedo his plans. MONEY. Or the lack of it.

That's why I still maintain that these guys are high-stakes rollers, or riverboat gamblers.

[leesa]

15. ThereIS no case for more troops, more resources to continue the

slaughter of innocent people. That is not scathing, that is agreeing that this atrocity is justified. I wish Daschle would just get lost.