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200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <p align="center"><img src="bush91307.jpg" width="429" height="325"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Alright, here are our thoughts on President Bush's address to the nation last night (here's the <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/bush91307123.html" target="_blank">full transcript</a> if you missed it). First of all, the address was supposed to be to announce a troop cut - at least, that's how it was publicized. In reality, it is a very <em>minor</em> troop cut, and the real news is that Bush announced we will have 130,000 troops in Iraq until at least July of 2008 - the same amount of troops we had there 9 months ago.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Terrorists and extremists who are at war with us around the world are seeking to topple Iraq's government, dominate the region and attack us here at home,&quot; he opened with. I have not heard of any Iraqi extremists trying to come to the U.S. and attack - have you? I am so sick and TIRED of him trying to confuse the American people between bin Laden/Al-Qaeda/the Taliban and Iraq.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Bush talks about how General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before Congress that the troop surge from January to June is &quot;working,&quot; that &quot;conditions in Iraq are improving.&quot; Is that so? May of 2007 was the <a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/US_chart.aspx" target="_blank">3rd-deadliest</a> month for U.S. soldiers in Iraq out of the entire 4+ years we've been occupying the Middle East. Last month, 84 U.S. soliders were killed there, as opposed to 65 one year earlier in August of '06. The number of Iraqi deaths is startling: last month alone <a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeathsByYear.aspx" target="_blank">2,074</a> Iraqis were killed.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Many schools and markets are reopening. Citizens are coming forward with vital intelligence. Sectarian killings are down, and ordinary life is beginning to return,&quot; Bush says of Baghdad. If there is such a vast improvement - <em>why does he want us to occupy for years to come?</em> With so <em>many</em> troops?</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Now the Iraqi government must bring the same determination to achieving reconciliation. This is an enormous undertaking after more than three decades of tyranny and division.&quot; Three decades of tyranny and division - exactly. And Bush thinks that by sending all of our troops over there and babysitting, that we can change the political structure of an area that has been politically divided forever. After admitting that the leaders in Iraq have not met their benchmarks, he still persists that he has &quot;made it clear that they must.&quot; What are we, the bully on the playground? Why are we telling other leaders how to run their country, with the blind notion that they won't fall apart like a house of toothpicks as soon as we withdraw?</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Our troops in Iraq are performing brilliantly. Along with the Iraqi forces, they have captured or killed an average of more than 1,500 enemy fighters per month since January.&quot; Oh, great. Did you pick out the number of enemy fighters out from the thousands and thousands of Iraqi <em>civilian</em> deaths that are occurring? And why aren't you mentioning those?Spin, spin, spin, sit and spin. The mass media will want you to believe that this is the first indication of Bush walking away from the Presidency with his tail between his legs. It is <em>not.</em> He is setting this up so that we will occupy Iraq and Afghanistan with our troops for <em>years </em>to come, even beyond his Presidency. He does not care about the advice of Congress, nor the wishes of the American people. He sees only the vision that he himself desires.The dilemma facing our country now is what to do about it - and herein lies the problem of having only two distinct political parties that get voted into office every term: the Democrats, if they <em>do</em> get elected into the next Presidency, are left with this giant mistake to deal with. And if they pull all of the troops out of the Middle East, chaos will ensue, and they do not want to be blamed.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">When a President makes decisions that do not comply with the wishes of the government he's employed by, nor the people of his country...doesn't that make him a dictator?</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Verdana"><a name="comment"></a><div class="js-kit-comments"></div> <script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script></font></p> <font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></blockquote></td> <!-- Col 2 --> <td valign="top"> <center>&nbsp; <p><font face="Verdana"><img height="1" src="http://www.qksrv.net/image-2385661-10443027" width="1" border="0"><br> </font></p></center> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 900; google_ad_format = "120x600_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel = ""; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; 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