Tuesday night address and the troops

[MattNC]

This speech is certainly a welcome announcement given the situation over there. But I have a fairly major concern about it. According to the article anyway, Bush will be addressing the nation AND troops in attendance. I'm all for the Commander-in-Chief having a "GO AMERICA!" moment with the troops, but that's not what we need out of the president in this address. We need a focused, concrete statement that levels with the American people about our current and future policy with Iraq: what's going right, what's going wrong, what should be changed, how we're going to do it. You get the picture.

I'm concerned all we'll get is this rally point for the president in an attempt to boost his sagging poll numbers; and nothing regarding the policy will change. I mean, the administration has all but admitted they're planning a stepped-up PR campaign on Iraq.

I could be wrong, but I have a little reason to believe otherwise.

[brettdale]

1. Its a PR job

The troops will give him a standing ovation, his speech will be interuppted by applause several times, this PR job stunt is done for his poll numbers

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. PR campaign

is all it is. That's why it is being held at Ft. Bragg-anyone not yelling and screaming support for Bush can be court martialed or something.

[CityZen-X]

10. Controlled Audience

I will bet that they will probably have applaud prompters for the marines, and Pavlovian drool cups for all. This is the only venue where the Chimp has the ability to control the audience. He can't take the chance of lying to a crowd of "red state" hillbillies, for even now they can see through the Bu$h*t!

[Sanity Claws]

3. That's all it will be

And I have every reason it will go over like a lead balloon. I think the media may be smelling blood and some may go after him. Tim Russert was a little more challenging of Rummy today. That gives me hope.

[acmavm]

4. What we need out of this ass clown right at this minute is a damn good

explanation as to whatever made him think anyone could justify bombing those people for months on the sly. We need to know what the hell's the deal with all his lies. And we need to know when we're going to get the hell out of there and quit killing those people and get our own out of the firing line.

That's what we need. To do it at Fort Bragg is whoremongering at its worst.

[rzemanfl]

5. Bush will give a bad speech and his poll numbers will go down

some more. There is nothing new he can say about Iraq. It will be the same old "hard work" "stay the course" "fightin'em there so we don't hafta fight'em here" "makin' progress" "freedom is on the march" "they hate our freedoms" bullshit.

[brettdale]

6. I will bet anyone

That the stories of Tom Cruise, Paris Hilton, missing whites girls will all disappear on Tuesday and the press will whore it up like they havent whored it up before, then when the DSM starts to get coverage in the International press, the media will go back to, Tom and Paris.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. That's all he EVER does (PR flacking). Why would you expect any

different?

Since when, including the SOTU addresses, have you seen any honest addressing of national problems from the guy?

[catmandu57]

8. Remember that rally with the doctored picture

the one that showed the same guy about a dozen times? I wonder if there will be some paid actors in uniform sprinkled through the crowd to woohoo and generate excitement for the chimp*
I haven't any expectations from this charade.

[brettdale]

11. Yes I agree

I remeber in 2004 when Cheny was giving a speech at a college, and there was so called college kids, with banners that said "Cheney Rocks" they werent college kids after all they were paid actors.

[earthboundmisfit]

9. Hell, no there won't be any honesty from Shrub about Iraq

(or anything else, for that matter) - no acknowledgement of any mistakes, misconceptions or anything else but the rosy "spread of freedom" talking points. This morning, Rumsfeld (on MTP) steadfastly refused to acknowledge any errors or missteps made in Iraq. The *resident's speech will be more of the same and call for more of the same...

[pdxmom]

12. We can all write this speech. It won't be any different from

all the others. "We have to fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here." Something about "Iraqis are free" and rape rooms. "Front lines in the war on terror". Something linking 9/11 to Iraq, even if obliquely. "Al-Qaeda". "...brave men and women..."

It will all be the exact some crap and nothing new.