Bush starts public relations onslaught leading up to war's 3rd anniversary

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/10/AR2006031001949.html

Bush Goes on Offensive To Explain War Strategy
Speeches to Combat Public Pessimism

By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 11, 2006

President Bush plans to begin a series of speeches next week again explaining the administration's strategy for winning the war in Iraq, as the White House returns to a familiar tactic to allay growing public pessimism about the war that has helped keep the president's approval rating near its historic low.

After previewing the upcoming speech in his radio address today, the president is scheduled to make remarks on the war at George Washington University on Monday. The appearance, which will be followed weekly by as many as four other speeches, marks the start of the White House's latest effort to convince skeptical Americans that it has a coherent plan for victory as the war nears its third anniversary later this month.

The president hopes to give "better depth, understanding and context for how the strategy in Iraq is unfolding," a senior White House official said of the planned speeches. Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Cabinet members will be making speeches on Iraq in advance of the anniversary of the U.S. invasion.

The public relations offensive is being launched amid intense concern in the White House about polls showing that a growing majority of Americans disapprove of Bush's handling of the war and harbor growing doubts about the prospects for success. A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that four in five Americans believe that the ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq will mushroom into civil war. Also, more than half of those surveyed believe the United States should begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, the poll found.

[C_U_L8R]

1. What a goddamn waste of money

If Bush would only do the Right Thing for once
then he wouldn't have to spend so much of OUR money
jawboning, armtwisting and hoodwinking people
into believing something other than the truth.

What a doofus.

[dajoki]

7. Shrub, do the right thing?

oh, c'mon now.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. The bad news: more really pathetic speechifications.

The good news: Stephanie, Kadie, BEB, and others will have loads of insane photos to post!

(Does the blivet REALLY believe he can speak???)

[Selatius]

3. He might get a bounce from it, but...

you can bet the neverending stream of coffins coming home will reverse that in the end.

[napi21]

4. The way HE SPEAKS....this will accomplish NOTHING!

He isn't willing to accept it, but the American people have made up their minds, and HE LOST!

[Punkingal]

5. Good!

Every time the asshole goes on one of his speaking tours, his numbers go down. You would think they would realize that sooner or later and tell him to STFU.

[rasputin1952]

6. Never once has this man succeeded in anything of his own volition...

he has been helped out of blunder after blunder by 'family friends'. Even the 2000 election was turned because of the screaming hordes that went to FL to stop the count.

bush is the perfect example of a man who is incapable of accomplishing anything of value; the Midas touch in reverse.

Facts abound about his failed policies, and we have hashed them out time and again; finally those that supported him have come to the conclusion that this idiocy must cease. Only the "true" rw maniacal society supports this man, or any of his "sweeping changes".

Let him do what he will to try and raise his poll numbers, every time he opens his mouth, he will be seen as a pariah, and that can only bode well for us in the '06 election. He can't have coattails when he's standing in his underwear.

[dajoki]

9. the emperor has no clothes n/t

[FightingIrish]

8. Have you seen a problem this idiot didn't think he could solve

by putting up a backdrop and reading a speech? This is not leadership and this is not a president. If we cannot bring the remaining rational citizens together to address a runaway incompetent administration as our most serious and immediate problem, we don't have a prayer.

[jimshoes]

10. They could call it the

lipstick on a pig tour for all the good it will do.

[eleny]

11. Strategy?

We all know it's going to be a rehash. Stay the course. Fight 'em there so.... Oh, you know the drill.

[mediaman007]

12. Doesn't this guy* have a job? All he does is campaign!

He rarely has meetings of substance that I'm aware of. All he does is go from one PR photo op to another. Oops, I forgot. He does have time to make a fundraising stop or two.

[dajoki]

13. we should be thankful...

that's all he does.

[Joanne98]

14. Go Bush go

[Neil Lisst]

15. Bush gives the same speech every week

He changes up the order and the little "add-ons," but it's the same speech. He's like some drunk old man, who always wants to tell you the same story, in the same words, every time he gets drunk.

Did I ever tell you about the time I attacked and occupied another country, the one my DADDY didn't have the balls to take?! Well, it was 2003 ....

[MrBenchley]

16. The next Churchill goes on the stump

The funniest part of this is that having built up the turd from Texas as the next Churchill, they don't have ANYTHING ELSE they can do but send the drunk out to stumble through the teleprompter....

[dajoki]

17. and it's quite embarrassing n/t

[Vickers]

18. What a goldbricking, sack-of-shit cheerleader.

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