I didn't catch President Bush's speech tonight, but the transcript is here. It's a lot to wade through. I thought I'd save you the trouble. An attempt to distill the speech down, one sentence per paragraph.
We're at war.
The Iraqi election last year was cool.
But now there's lots of violence.
Oops.
Failure would be bad.
Failure would be very bad.
Most of the violence is near Baghdad.
We're not securing Baghdad very well.
We will secure Baghdad better.
This will take a lot of new troops.
But these troops will help us secure Baghdad better.
The Iraqi government needs to help too.
Hopefully this will lead to less violence.
And make the Iraqi people more confident.
The Iraqi government needs to help too.
We will help them.
We will also fight al Qaeda.
Which we are currently doing.
Iran is bad too.
The whole middle east is a little icky.
We should fix that.
Really, we should.
But back to Iraq.
Victory there would be good.
We need to stay there or bad stuff will happen.
Congress hates me.
But I'm forming a committee.
The military is awesome.
America is awesome.
My speech is over.
This is hilarious.
Posted by: golddog | January 11, 2007 at 08:21 AM
If only it weren't so true.
Posted by: Norm | January 11, 2007 at 09:40 AM
I agree, it's hilarious and scary at the same time. Truth is stranger than fiction any day.
Posted by: SymplyAmused | January 13, 2007 at 02:32 PM
Bravo!
Posted by: RES | January 14, 2007 at 12:14 AM
LOL! That basically sums it all up! Couldn't have said it better.
Posted by: Tracy | June 26, 2007 at 12:00 PM