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09/23/2003 Archived Entry: "The Big UN Speech In Real Time"
The Big UN Speech In Real Time
Welp, here we go. 9/11 was the first thing out of his mouth.
Funny - he's talking about how the terrorist want to destroy the UN, when he and his thugs essentially tried to do the same thing in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq (remember Perle's 'Thank God for the death of the UN?').
Right now, he's using a reiteration of 'With us or against us.' Might work on the stump when he's out raising campaign money, but it remains to be seen how it'll go over at the UN.
He brought up WMD, saying that the UN was right to call Iraq on it. Hasn't mentioned that we've found no WMD. He brings up the 'children's prisons.' Doesn't mention that the most famous one was an orphanage.
He wants the UN to move on. To move on from his lies, from the insults of his administration, from 'freedom fries,' from 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys.' Why? Because he needs cannon fodder and money for his illegal occupation of Iraq.
This is one weird-ass speech. He keeps veering back and forth between a message of hope, and one of fear. 'The terrorists, the terrorists...'
I'm wondering if he'll affix a dollar amount to the money he wants from the UN. Sort of doubtful, seeing as how naming that $87 billion figure has killed his domestic poll numbers.
He's saying he wants the UN to help fight against weapons of mass destruction. Sure, now he does. Still no mention of no WMD in Iraq.
This is essentially a one-note speech - and that note is fear-mongering. For every phrase he utters about progress supposedly made, he then turns around and talks about how the terrorists are still there, plotting and scheming. Bush is talking out of both sides of his mouth on every subject he touches.
He touched briefly upon fighting disease and hunger - seemingly a token mention. But he's dwelling quite a bit on the sex trade worldwide. While it's no doubt a problem, it almost seems like it was tacked onto the speech as a handle with which to swing talk away from the failure in Iraq.
Applause? Polite, short, perfunctory. Now the spinmeisters take over, trying to inflate this half-empty balloon of rhetoric.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
The Arab press was snooping around, getting wind of the secret air bases...so out they go. Without a UN inspection, there ought not be any UN mission, but the Bx won't let the UN in to inspect, just as the Bx completely restricted the IAEA inspection, and did not allow them to even look for the dangerous stuff at Tuwaitha, just the gross tons in the big containers that were looted for water barrels. No investigation of where the strontium and other high-toxics went off to. But when these materials turn into a Tel Aviv dirty bomb, 'terrorists' will be behind it. And Bx will be blameless in the US press.
The 'other' reason why choice contracts go to Halliburton is that they will keep their mouths shut...for a price. Welcome to Bxworld, and the price to these mfers will have to be Nuremberg steep to EVER get out from under their mushroom cloud.
Posted by Paul @ 09/25/2003 08:28 AM NY
