CNN: Presidential speech tonight about "The War on Terror"

Not Iraq. Terror.

Is this why DR. Rice was crowing on all the networks this morning about "9/11" again?

No wonder I'll "watch" via DU postings/comments.

Bets on it working? I think it's going to flop big time.

I wanted to remind people that DistressedAmerican made a great flyer to hand out before the speech. It's here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3958096


We're going to flyer the neighborhood so our neighbors listen to His Fakery in the right frame of mind.

:toast:

Beth

So it will probably be Iraq.

How 'bout you?

Haven't seen Rachel yet, and I don't think W will infest the Food Network. Unless they have a special on pretzels and beer.

That is why they are trying to rally around it. If the Democrats could attack him effectively on his strongest point he would crumble (and would have crumbled in 2004). Of course the American people don't want to face the fact that the Republicans have dealt poorly and cynically with terrorism. One of the Democrats' dilemmas is do they say (1)that Bush is incompetent, which then brings the retort that at least we haven't been hit at home again, or (2)that something more sinister is going on, that Bush is trying to use terrorism for the Republicans' (and their business allies') political and personal benefit? The latter, of course seems to inevitably lead to a LIHOP/MIHOP controversy although it doesn't have to.

the repeat of the Daily Show with JS.

China Image Scores Better Than U.S.

Support for the U.S.-led war on terror has dipped in European countries like Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Spain, while it remains low in the Muslim countries surveyed like Pakistan, Turkey and Jordan.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/23/national/a110236D49.DTL

'War on terror' losing support

Support for the US-led war on terrorism has been falling even among some of the United States' closest allies, an international poll found.

Support for the Iraq war is even lower.

In most of the countries surveyed, people rejected President George W. Bush's claim that removing Saddam Hussein from power has made the world safer.
http://www.news24.com/News24/AnanziArticle/0,,1518-1785_1726500,00.html

CIA: Iraq now a bigger terrorist threat than Afghanistan/binLaden
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/pl_nm/security_iraq_cia_dc

US Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html

United States: Losing the War on Terror
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/aprilharder.htm

Evidence that the US May Be Losing the Global War on Terror
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1501

US: Three Years On, War on Terrorism Looks Like a Loser
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25437

”We have a stronger jihadi presence in Iraq today than in March 2003,” noted Roger Cressey, the former director for Transnational Threats in Bush's National Security Council at a briefing at the libertarian Cato Institute earlier this week.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0911-01.htm

The 'War on Terrorism': Winning or Losing? Losing.
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefings/winningorlosing.htm

Terror threat to US called 'significant' - Apr 27, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/27/terror.report /

Global terror attacks triple in 2004
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0428/dailyUpdate.html

Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5889435%20 /

US Losing the War on Terror in Iraq; The invasion of Iraq has increased, not decreased, the threat of terrorist attack
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2629.html

Occupation Made World Less Safe, Pro-War Institute Says
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/0526iissreport.htm

Iraq Invasion Hurt War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-10.htm

Musharraf: World more dangerous because of Iraq War
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/25/03544/7945

Blix Says Iraq War May Have Worsened Terror Threat
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0319-02.htm

Poll: Aussies, Brits, Italians say Iraq war increased terrorism
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/5027215.html

Iraq intervention increased threat of terrorism
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/c7/9d/200409100845.68f9c878.html

UK Government; Iraq war 'increased terror threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3451239.stm

Iraq war has swollen ranks of al Qaeda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1063717,00.html

US State Department Corrects Report to Show Rise in Terrorism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264512 /

Iraq has become a terrorist spawning ground, CIA admits
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-a-terrorist-spawning-ground-CIA-admits/2005/02/17/1108609349394.html?oneclick=true

Iraq Conflict Feeds International Terror Threat
http://www.skyhen.org/Focus/iraqcoverage/cia_iraq_conflict_feeds_international_terror_threat.php