Sunday, December 18, 2005
Bush's Speech
Obviously the White House thought they were going to be taking a victory lap all weekend over the Iraq elections.
Instead they had to spend the last 48 hours trying to quell the domestic spying controversy.
So tonight Bush gives his "Mistakes Were made in Iraq" speech in order to take back the news cycle from the NSA scandal.
Rove knows the news media will fall all over itself to give the preznit credit for admitting mistakes in Iraq, especially tomorrow morning on the news shows.
Even tonight, the coverage of the speech seems fairly favorable to the preznit.
But all of the talking heads keep noting about how the Iraqis must settle their constitutional problems in the next four months or face chaos in the body politic. The Sunnis must be brought into the process before they all turn to the insurgency for power.
And Pumpkinhead Russert told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC tonight that both Republican and Democratic politicians are telling him they are worried because both the Kurdish and the Shiite militias are stronger than the national Iraqi army.
Doesn't sound like a recipe for political success despite what the preznit says.
Tonight he said America has a new democratic ally in the Middle East in Iraq.
The reality is, after the a Shiite dominated government takes over, Iran has a new ally in the Middle East.
What we've got is trouble that no four speeches in one week can fix.
But why should the preznit and the rest of his administration's allies allow reality to intrude upon their effective speechifying?
Instead they had to spend the last 48 hours trying to quell the domestic spying controversy.
So tonight Bush gives his "Mistakes Were made in Iraq" speech in order to take back the news cycle from the NSA scandal.
Rove knows the news media will fall all over itself to give the preznit credit for admitting mistakes in Iraq, especially tomorrow morning on the news shows.
Even tonight, the coverage of the speech seems fairly favorable to the preznit.
But all of the talking heads keep noting about how the Iraqis must settle their constitutional problems in the next four months or face chaos in the body politic. The Sunnis must be brought into the process before they all turn to the insurgency for power.
And Pumpkinhead Russert told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC tonight that both Republican and Democratic politicians are telling him they are worried because both the Kurdish and the Shiite militias are stronger than the national Iraqi army.
Doesn't sound like a recipe for political success despite what the preznit says.
Tonight he said America has a new democratic ally in the Middle East in Iraq.
The reality is, after the a Shiite dominated government takes over, Iran has a new ally in the Middle East.
What we've got is trouble that no four speeches in one week can fix.
But why should the preznit and the rest of his administration's allies allow reality to intrude upon their effective speechifying?
