WP: Bush Stands His Ground, Sets Himself Apart

[kskiska]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 -- President Bush's speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday was the verbal equivalent of a "greatest hits" album, repackaging and summarizing the key foreign-policy themes the president has embraced in the past four years. He faced a tough audience -- many of the world leaders listening are quietly rooting for the victory of his opponent in the upcoming election -- but without apology or retreat, the president cast the war on terrorism as a defining moment that will usher in democracy across the globe.

From his first appearance before the United Nations, shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Bush has made this case. But Tuesday's speech represented a much clearer distillation of his vision. His message was aimed directly at American voters, not the leaders unenthusiastically listening to him, and appeared designed also to respond to the assertions by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry that the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been a failure.

In the speech, Bush signaled he will continue to deal with the world on his own terms. He brushed aside the United Nations' refusal to back the war -- and Secretary General Kofi Annan's recent comment that the war was illegal -- by asserting that "a coalition of nations enforced the just demands of the world." Despite the inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq -- the stated reason for the attack -- Bush also said: "We're determined to prevent proliferation and to enforce the demands of the world, and my nation is grateful to the soldiers of many nations who have helped to deliver the Iraqi people from an outlaw dictator."

(snip)

Bush's own actions have sometimes undercut his rhetoric. He has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as Putin has slowly strangled democratic institutions. He also remains a strong supporter of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a coup. After giving his speech, Bush met in the afternoon with Musharraf at the United Nations -- just days after Musharraf signaled he would break his promise to retire as army chief of staff.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39747-2004Sep21.html

[kysrsoze]

1. Yeah, he sets himself apart by failing to think and speak rationally

Whatever.

[Mr_Spock]

17. My thoughts too.

He sets himself apart because nobody want's to talk to him - he is a violent angry man pretending to live out a cowboy fantasy.

[Born Free]

25. colon cancer patients learn about assholes

when the asshole takes control of a persons life things go down hill fast, and the same can be said about the bush coward, he is the asshole of the world, causing nothing but trouble for everyone.

[0007]

29. Good analogy!

[peekaloo]

2. too bad his ground is quicksand

How many "world leaders" use the UN for stumpin'?

Good riddance, arsewipe.

[Vincardog]

4. I don't think lecturing them will gain much support

[cornfedyank]

20. Hey W; Is clean water a right?

refrigeration would be asking way too much.

[Cha]

10. "Quicksand"! I love it!

Mail that to the washed out post!

That is a grand, metophorical, soundbite!

[mmonk]

3. yeah, he's definitely doing that

He's broken the mold.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Too bad he's taking the rest of us with him.

[UpInArms]

6. "set himself apart" as a complete

bumbling idiot and a war criminal without a clue.

[trueblew]

7. Post could have summed this up in one word...

rhetoric.

America won't get fooled again.

[Rose Siding]

8. Kerry, "more of a "realist" in the mode of Henry Kissinger"

Would it kill them; would the entire staff at the WP keel over at their desks if they just wrote one completely decent article?

[The Zanti Regent]

30. Yes

How this mighty paper has fallen into total whoredom...

[City Lights]

9. The cheese stands alone.

Buh-bye, :dunce:, don't let the door hitcha on the way out.

[high density]

11. "Greatest Hits?"

That's interesting wording to use. Greatest disasters might be the better words to use.

[stopbush]

12. The naked emperor stands before the world, impressed with the fine

set of clothes the neo-cons have handed him to wear before the august body. He spins a yarn about the design of the clothing, their manufacture, their appropriateness to the occasion, their trend-setting qualities...and all the while, the world laughs at the naked ass whose actions have left belief behind. All that remains is scorn and ridicule.

[Teaser]

13. A steely eyed hero

"...glared out from behind the podium and over the collected mass of foreign faces. No regrets only strength. Many a reporter shuddered at his dulcet tones. Elizabeth and Nedra excused themselves to the ladies room. Something pressing to take care of.

Truly, a man for the ages. A man who stands apart. And this is one reporter who couldn't agree more."

Does anyone have a tissue?

[dweller]

14. go back to your corner

your dunce-conehat and stool await you, *moron.

now Class, back to current events.
dp

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. "My nation is grateful" ????

Shit, I am part of his 'nation' and I am not the least bit grateful.

What a pompous ass this man is.

[0007]

16. I think the Post sums it up fairly well, without calling junior a madman!

[w4rma]

22. No they didn't. Look at that headline. (nt)

[Morning Dew]

18. Bush is like Putin and Musharraf

"He has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as Putin has slowly strangled democratic institutions. He also remains a strong supporter of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a coup. "

[Gloria]

19. I told my freeper mother today that Bush was beginning to act like

he was in the bunker a la Hitler during his last days....

Hitler was either raging or out to lunch and it seems like Bush is in the same pattern...........

[Disturbed]

21. GW Bush stand his ground...

unfortunately for America, it's quicksand. How many more deaths before he and his Neo Fascists sink out of sight?

[TahitiNut]

23. Dimson speaks frequently of what the "terrorists and their allies believe"

He parrot remarks like this at virtually every opportunity:

"Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies, to be burned and destroyed and forgotten," Bush said. "They believe that dictators should control every mind and tongue in the Middle East and beyond. They believe that suicide and torture and murder are fully justified to serve any goal they declare, and they act on their beliefs."

He describes a mythic, unified cult with a degree of assurance that would lead one to infer that he has intimate familiarity with them - a familiarity that's akin to his familiarity with the members of his own administration. And he does so extensively and repeatedly. "They hate us for our freedoms."

One might innocently conclude it's due to the quality of the intelligence he pores over endlessly to gain such remarkable insight.

I don't.

I see it as projection. What he is describing are the extents to which he knows the cabal of which he's a part and for which he's a front-man is willing to act in order to gain ever more wealth and power.

In effect, he's mythically rationalizing the Busholini Cabal's own goals. It's the "fight fire with fire" (or "eye for an eye") rationale. The more they're able to infuse the bogeyman with such malevolence in the public's mind, the more the cabal will lower the standard for their own behavior.

He's describing the reich-wing. No question about it.

[AndyTiedye]

24. ...and they all moved away from him...

but I guess "sets himself apart" sounds better.

[Swamp Rat]

26. "Bush The Alien Lizard Stands His Ground, Sets Himself Apart"

[moondust]

27. Bush really doesn't get it.

The world simply won't put up with another Hitlerian despot shoving his garbage down people's throats. Somebody needs to break into his bubble and just tell him that nobody outside his relatively small group of deranged cheerleaders wants to see or hear his anti-human mumbo jumbo. Not that he would listen...

[unfrigginreal]

28. Talk about a spun headline. C'mon WP, Bush is obstinate would have worked.

[Justice]

31. Real Headline: Bush Stands Alone, Others Set Him Aside

[cliss]

32. jeez, that statement really bugs me:

..."and my nation is grateful"...

Can you imagine, this guy is standing up there, as MY spokesman telling the UN what HIS nation thinks. As long as I live, I can't think of any more obnoxious thing EVER.

This dude does NOT speak for me. He is not my spokesman, and I hope the rest of the UN and the rest of the world realizes that.

I just came back from a month in Sweden, and I vigorously assured everyone that there are many, many people in the US who do not agree with this clown.