-Caveat Lector- "President Bush, in a rare moment of self-awareness, realizes that it is better to keep ones mouth closed, and be thought a fool, than speak and remove all doubt."
>>>Go to the site and see the image<<< >From http://forums.about.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ab-uspolitics&msg=17843.5 While watching tonight, let's see if he answers any of these questions (how much you wanna bet he doesn't get close to answering them?): DUBYAH SPEECH GUIDE: As a service to our readers, Counterspin Central is providing this handy-dandy guide to evaluating tonight's Presidential address on Iraq. While listening to Bush read his teleprompted remarks, keep these questions in mind, and determine whether he answers them to your satisfaction: 1) How many U.S. soldiers, if any, will likely die or be wounded in an invasion? It doesn't have to be a precise amount, just what you and the Joint Chiefs estimate to be the casualty levels. 2) How many innocent Iraqis do you expect to become "collateral damage?" 3) How much will the actual invasion cost the American taxpayers? And if it will cause a defecit, explain why this is justified, or how you are going to make up the difference. [Which programs you are willing to cut, or taxes you are willing to raise, etc.] 4) What, specifically, will we do with Iraq once the invasion is successfully completed? This entails a number of sub-questions: A) How many troops will we have to station in Iraq? B) How long will the United States have a significant military presence in Iraq? C) What kind of government will we establish once we have effected "regime change?" D) How many ex-Baathists, or Saddam followers/cronies will we rely upon to govern Iraq? E) How many billions of dollars per year will our post-invasion "rebuilding efforts" cost the American taxpayers? F) How will we pay for this operation? With defecits? Tax increases, or large spending cuts? G) What programs will we have to cut in order to finance our occupation of Iraq? And by what amount? 5) What country will we next decide is a mortal threat to the United States? 6) When will we invade/change the regime of that country? 7) If we do not intend to go after any other countries in the "Axis of Evil," why not? 8) What if one of Saddam's ruthless henchmen executes a coup just before the invasion, and offers up Saddam Hussein for trial to the United States, or the Internatiinal Criminal Court? Will we still invade? 9) What happens to Iraq's oil reserves, which are currently the second largest proven reserves in the world? 10) How many big campaign contributors to the President will be getting sweetheart oil contracts in regime-changed Iraq? 11) Without revealing specific operational details, what are your contingency plans should Saddam attack our troops with Chemical or Biological weapons? 12) What if he attacks Israel with such weapons? 13) What happanes if Israel enters the conflict? 14) What happens if Iraq agrees to a tougher UN Security Council resolutin calling for unfettered weapons inspections and disarmament? 15) What credible, non-secret evidence do you have that Saddam Hussein cannot be deterred and contained? Hopefully, this guide will allow for an enjoyable pre-Monday Night Football, xenophobic speech watching experience. http://counterspin.blogspot.com/2002_10_06_counterspin_archive.html#82635031 "The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. 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