"The Speech Bush Didn't Give"
The following is an article found in the Atlantic City Press. It was written by a man named Robert Steinback. It's entitled "Here's the speech Bush didn't give". It makes alot of sense. It begins "Let's alter history just a little bit, and imagine that President Bush had given us an accurate case for war in Iraq 18 months ago:"
"My fellow Americans, I'm appearing before you today to ask for your support as I make the most solemn decision a president can make: commiting our military troops to war. We must remove Saddam Hussein from power, although his only threat to the United States is that he hates us. While we know that Saddam possessed and used weapons of mass destruction in the past, we have no evidence that he has them today or that he's making more. But he hasn't proved that he doesn't have them, and this constitutes an urgent threat to America. So we must act now because Saddam, who had nothing to do with the Sept. 11th attacks, might choose to give the WMDs that he doesn't have to Osama bin Laden, with whom ha has never collaborated. That's why I've decided to shift the bulk of our military resources away from catching bin Laden, who has already attacked us and vows to do so again, so that we can pursue a man who hasn't attacked us and almost certainly can't, based on the remote possibility that he'll give aid to bin Laden, who no longer is my top priority. My fellow Americans, the case is clear. We must liberate the Iraqi people, though we have little evidence that they want us to invade their country. We must give them a chance at democracy, though history strongly suggests that a Western attempt to impose a government in this part of the world is doomed to fail. Our very presence is likely to attract terrorists from all over the region and inspire new recruits, dedicated to undermining our attempts to impose a new government. Still, we must ensure the establishment of a new, friendly government in Baghdad that won't have a prayer of survival without our help. Before long, they'll beg us to establish a military base in Iraq --- which is our primary objective. That, in theory, will enable us to threaten every other Middle Eastern nation that dares to stand against us. Peace will reign, oil will flow and profits will accumulate. Admittedly, experts consider this a pretty far-fetched scenario, but we can't fail because God is on our side, he told me so. But we face a long, difficult, bloody operation. More than 800 American soldiers will die and 4,000 will be maimed during the first 15 months of war. We'll honor them by saying that their sacrifice helped preserve American freedom, which in fact is threatened more by my attorney general than by Saddam. In addition, this war will put us at odds with France and Germany and many other of our traditional allies. But we'll work to repair those ruptured bonds soon, when we go crawling back to the world community pleading for it to bail us out of the tar pit which we're about to leap into. And so, my fellow Americans, I'm asking you to commit a modest $200 billion of your hard earned money over the next 2 years to support this patriotic endeavor. Don't worry: your money will be in good hands as we will hand out billions in no-bid contracts to corporations well known to people in my administration. And you can count on firm leadership from me until our mission is accomplished. So that you never lose faith in me, I will refuse to take responsibility for anything that goes wrong, whether its intelligence failures, prisoner-abuse scandals, or insufficient body-armor for our troops. I'd like to tell you that America will prevail and that terrorism will be defeated. But I'm here to give an honest evaluation of our situation. So I am compelled to tell you that more than two dozen retired military brass and diplomats from both major parties who doubt the wisdom and sanity of my call for war will take the unprecedentedstep of publicly describing my strategy as a 'total disaster'. They'll say that my approach will make the world less safe, alienate us from the very allies we need to help construct a global anti-terrorism alliance and undermine our national prestige and honor. And they'll be right. But here is the ultimate truth that so many of my un-American unpatriotic critics overlook: You won't care. You'll still like me and support me, no matter how badly things turn out. That's because you have short memories and you'll believe just about anything I tell you, even if it contradicts what I've told you before. So, in closing, let me say, God bless you, and God bless America."
In bold, is the reason that Bush even stands a chance against Kerry. It's so true, so many Americans are so dumb and they'll believe whatever you want them to as long as they don't have to think for themselves.
"My fellow Americans, I'm appearing before you today to ask for your support as I make the most solemn decision a president can make: commiting our military troops to war. We must remove Saddam Hussein from power, although his only threat to the United States is that he hates us. While we know that Saddam possessed and used weapons of mass destruction in the past, we have no evidence that he has them today or that he's making more. But he hasn't proved that he doesn't have them, and this constitutes an urgent threat to America. So we must act now because Saddam, who had nothing to do with the Sept. 11th attacks, might choose to give the WMDs that he doesn't have to Osama bin Laden, with whom ha has never collaborated. That's why I've decided to shift the bulk of our military resources away from catching bin Laden, who has already attacked us and vows to do so again, so that we can pursue a man who hasn't attacked us and almost certainly can't, based on the remote possibility that he'll give aid to bin Laden, who no longer is my top priority. My fellow Americans, the case is clear. We must liberate the Iraqi people, though we have little evidence that they want us to invade their country. We must give them a chance at democracy, though history strongly suggests that a Western attempt to impose a government in this part of the world is doomed to fail. Our very presence is likely to attract terrorists from all over the region and inspire new recruits, dedicated to undermining our attempts to impose a new government. Still, we must ensure the establishment of a new, friendly government in Baghdad that won't have a prayer of survival without our help. Before long, they'll beg us to establish a military base in Iraq --- which is our primary objective. That, in theory, will enable us to threaten every other Middle Eastern nation that dares to stand against us. Peace will reign, oil will flow and profits will accumulate. Admittedly, experts consider this a pretty far-fetched scenario, but we can't fail because God is on our side, he told me so. But we face a long, difficult, bloody operation. More than 800 American soldiers will die and 4,000 will be maimed during the first 15 months of war. We'll honor them by saying that their sacrifice helped preserve American freedom, which in fact is threatened more by my attorney general than by Saddam. In addition, this war will put us at odds with France and Germany and many other of our traditional allies. But we'll work to repair those ruptured bonds soon, when we go crawling back to the world community pleading for it to bail us out of the tar pit which we're about to leap into. And so, my fellow Americans, I'm asking you to commit a modest $200 billion of your hard earned money over the next 2 years to support this patriotic endeavor. Don't worry: your money will be in good hands as we will hand out billions in no-bid contracts to corporations well known to people in my administration. And you can count on firm leadership from me until our mission is accomplished. So that you never lose faith in me, I will refuse to take responsibility for anything that goes wrong, whether its intelligence failures, prisoner-abuse scandals, or insufficient body-armor for our troops. I'd like to tell you that America will prevail and that terrorism will be defeated. But I'm here to give an honest evaluation of our situation. So I am compelled to tell you that more than two dozen retired military brass and diplomats from both major parties who doubt the wisdom and sanity of my call for war will take the unprecedentedstep of publicly describing my strategy as a 'total disaster'. They'll say that my approach will make the world less safe, alienate us from the very allies we need to help construct a global anti-terrorism alliance and undermine our national prestige and honor. And they'll be right. But here is the ultimate truth that so many of my un-American unpatriotic critics overlook: You won't care. You'll still like me and support me, no matter how badly things turn out. That's because you have short memories and you'll believe just about anything I tell you, even if it contradicts what I've told you before. So, in closing, let me say, God bless you, and God bless America."
In bold, is the reason that Bush even stands a chance against Kerry. It's so true, so many Americans are so dumb and they'll believe whatever you want them to as long as they don't have to think for themselves.