BBC News: Bush seeks his Kennedy moment

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Bush seeks his Kennedy moment

by Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent

By saying that Iraq is "now the central front" in the war on terror, President Bush is seeking to elevate the occupation there into part of a global struggle comparable to the one declared against communism by President John F Kennedy.

Mr Bush declared that "Enemies of freedom are making a desperate stand there and there they must be defeated. This will take time and require sacrifice. Yet we will do what is necessary, we will spend what is necessary, to achieve this essential victory in the war on terror."

Compare the (much more vivid) sentence from John Kennedy's inaugural speech on 20 January 1961: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."

MORE AT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3089590.stm

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I just post 'em-- I don't comment on 'em.... :evilgrin:

[Love Bug]

1. Bush seeks his "Kennedy moment"?

Uh.... be careful what you ask for...

[Brian Sweat]

2. That's what I was thinking too.

I hate Bush, but that is the last thing that I want. It would not be good for the country and the right would worship him like Kennedy.

[bryant69]

4. It would be the end of liberalism for a while

I'd guess. No matter who did it; President Cheney would get the same honeymoon Johnson got, and like Johnson, Cheney would use it to ram through an extreme conservative position.

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[pansypoo53219]

7. you thinking of the Kennedy

that killed himself skiing?

[qb]

3. Instead, he found a Halcion moment.

[Robb]

5. Looks like a Xanax moment...

Anyone else giggle at his attempts at meaningful pauses?

Shatner, you're on notice. :)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. Are his eye whites pink?

OMG this guy is F'd up! I ignored the "drugged" thread last nite but he looks like a complete zombie there.

RE: the Kennedy moment- Bush had his Kennedy moment Sep. 14, 2001. it's been all downhill since then.

[Cocoa]

10. I giggled at those moments

His little smirks were half-hearted, as if he realized that not even the Freepers were with him this time.

[opihimoimoi]

9. He was crying like the baby he is

They made him read the speech 4756 times so he don't fuck it up.

"Everything on the damn line this time JR"

"Keep at it until you fucking got it right"

[punpirate]

6. Nah, no worry....

Kennedys are Democrats. Bush could never find a Democratic moment in twelve lifetimes.

That said, it would take him twenty lifetimes to find the paperwork on his 1973 cocaine arrest.

The Democrats are quite safe from Bush encroaching on their reputation....