Bush To Give Major Speech Thurs On Spreading Democracy

[peterh]

*DJ Bush To Say Democracy Needed In Parts Of Mid-East, Asia

(sorry – no link yet)

hmmmm….what does the little critter have up his sleeve this time?

on edit: still no link, but here's the text...


WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--President George W. Bush will give a major policy
speech Thursday in which he will say that more democracy and freedom are needed
in both the Middle East and in parts of Asia.
During his speech, the president will cite specific countries that need to
move toward greater freedom, including Burma, North Korea and China. He will
also point to some countries in the Middle East that have taken tentative steps
toward greater freedom and democracy, such as Bahrain, Jordan and Saudi Arabia,
Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
However, while the president will mention the need for more freedom in Asia,
Rice said the focus will be on the Middle East.
"He will focus on the fact the region that has been most deprived of freedom
is the Middle East and most of the speech is about the new opportunities for a
forward strategy for freedom in the Middle East," Rice said.
Rice said the speech will mark a break with six decades of U.S. policy toward
the Middle East, which previously focused on maintaining stability in the
region. Rice said this strategy appears to have failed.
"What we found is that we did not buy security and stability but rather
frustration and pent-up emotions and a region that has fallen behind in terms of
prosperity, and, in fact, continues to produce ideologies of hatred," she added.
Rice said the speech will build on an address the president gave last spring
in which he said one of the central goals of the war in Iraq would be
establishing democracy in Iraq. The speech Thursday will broaden the theme and
say more freedom and democracy is needed throughout the Middle East.

[SodoffBush]

1. He's speaking from a parallel universe, no?

I dare anybody with a press pass to ask Bush what his notion of democracy is. He couldn't even break it down along Latin lines.

[tedzbear]

47. Democracy means free trade...

...freedom for the American corporation, not the individual.

Actually, freedom for the American multi-national corp. to rape, pillage, and control the natural resources of the nations in question (examples: Bolivia or Iraq).

:kick:

[brucelee]

55. here is the link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3248119.stm
President George W Bush has deplored the "freedom deficit" in the Middle East and said the United States must remain focused on the region "for decades".

"Our commitment to democracy is being tested in the Middle East," he said in a televised Washington speech in defence of US democracy.

Mr Bush said dictators in Iraq and Syria had "left a legacy of torture, oppression, misery and ruin".

Turning to Iran, he warned that "the regime in Tehran must heed the democratic demands of the Iranian people, or lose its last claim to legitimacy".

[Zhade]

58. Bush deplores a deficit? Gee, that's news to ME!

Hey, Traitor, how about NOT BEING SO FUCKING EVIL AND IDIOTIC???

[grannylib]

2. Golly, wish some would spread to us...

[Jazzgirl]

33. I was thinking the same thing grannylib...

When we get democracy (a real one) then maybe we'll have a leg to stand on trying to spread it. Better yet, maybe somebody will finally figure out how to really implement it!

Jazzgirl

[Thor_MN]

37. Evangelical Democracy

Is a good oxymoron for the moron's foreign policy or lack thereof. Democracy tolerates evangelism well, everyone has freedom of speech. The converse is not true, because an evangelist can't cram his viewpoint down my throat if I am free to ignore him or tell him to take a hike.

When will the GOP learn that they are in office to REPRESENT the people, not tell them how they should lead their lives?

[aquart]

3. Oh, dear.

When George says he wants to spread Democracy, expect a declaration of martial law.

I really feel quite nervous now.

[MUAD_DIB]

12. Why would Emperor Chimp decide now

to declare martial law when the Idiot-Murkin-Hicks keep on voting, with the help of the good people at Diebold, for the republicans?

If president crotchsock decided to declare martial law I doubt the the idiots (see above) would understand it anyway. The morans would probably welcome it since they would no longer have to worry about the mindcrippling task of wiping their own arse.

The sad thing is that the joke would be on them since they would be conscripted into crotchsock's Democracy building army. Next stop slackjaws: the Middle East.

If chimpy starts the draft up then I hope these suckers are on the front line.


BTW: Don't be nervous.

[tedzbear]

48. You said it better than I could...

I love "crotchsock." I think you should make bumperstickers for the next election:

"Impeach Crotchsock!"

[lancdem]

4. "Critter"

LOL!

[Demobrat]

5. Uh oh.

When W talks about spreading democracy, bombs fall.

[hang a left]

9. That was my first thought. Oh crap who we gonna start a fight with

now?

[shanti]

35. exactly

let's spread a little more "freedom"...err..war!

[bemildred]

6. They are really grabbing at straws.

We are no longer looking for WMD and protecting the USA.
We are spreading peace and democracy to the lesser peoples.

[Robroy]

7. When he spreads it..

I pray I'm not downwind.

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. Will it be spread to Iran this time? Syria? Korea? All of the above?

Either way, it sounds like KBR/Halliburton holders can go ahead and bust open that Tuscany Villa catalogue.

[BiggJawn]

38. "Spread Democracy"="Drop Da BOMB"

Next we'll have Rumsferatu showing off his 47-tooth upper plate gestulating madly with his gore-soaked hands saying "Can't ya just FEEL THE LOVE?????"

See what the inability to get an erection will do to you????

[DuctapeFatwa]

41. LOL now that is a distasteful mental jpeg

remember when the Crusade first started, there were these wacko ladies writing to Fox about how they thought he was sexy?

[ripplingwater]

10. Ruht roh

Anyone notice that post yesterday where it is reported that "greater than normal" military air traffic is headed for the ME via Scotland?

How is THAT related?

[hang a left]

25. let us not forget the calling up of additional troops today

[Zhade]

44. Is this the one you're referring to?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=198688

[UpInArms]

11. all of *'s policies are failed policies

and she has the audacity to say

Rice said the speech will mark a break with six decades of U.S. policy toward
the Middle East, which previously focused on maintaining stability in the
region. Rice said this strategy appears to have failed.

the last time this mal-administration made a break from policy, it was for the "pre-emtive strike" policy -

oh how well that has worked to make the world a safer place :mad:

[MaineDem]

13. A break from maintaining stability?

Yikes, the implications are mind-boggling!

Duck and cover!

[NoKingGeorge]

17. 6 decades of WORLD strategy, not just US strategy.

Wow, an expert on the former Soviet Union (does not exist anymore!) and a failed Texas businessman have decided that SIXTY years of world policy have failed. Having decided that, they lead the greatest military in history on preemptive strikes around the world.

This movie plot would be rejected. Where is America when we need her?

[screembloodymurder]

51. Monday there will be a total lunar eclipse.

In ancient times it was the symbol for a pending disaster. Good timing evil one.

[tedzbear]

49. The strategy has failed thanks to HER recent policies!!!!!

She is such a manipulator.

[JNelson6563]

14. hoping to take spotlight off UE #s

What worries?? I am your emperor hear me and applaud! We do not need jobs, we need soldiers....

Julie

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. "Bush To Give Major Speech Thurs On Spreading Democracy"

and how to stop it, right?

[Ruby Romaine]

16. what will he use?

shovel or manure spreader?

[htuttle]

34. Ohhhh, Bush will be hauling out the Big Rig for this speech

Gotta full load to spread!

[newyawker99]

54. Hi Ruby Romaine!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Say_What]

18. From the MORON who gave us: "It Would Be Easier if I Was Dictator"

What the f*ck does little pr*ck know about freedom and democracy?

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. What the f*ck does little pr*ck know about freedom and democracy?

. . Elementary my dear underprivileged Citizen of the World -

. . He know how to take it away ! !,

. . and with the sheeples help ! !

Sad, But true . .

(sigh)

[hail to the thief]

19. Breathing room?

Is this frightening or what our fearless leader will tell us that we need breathing room! I mean, Democracy here take whatever you the servile, docile masses need to get behind this wholesale murder of innocent people. God what sheep the mainstream is.

[Tripper11]

21. I'm sorry, spreading what?????

A load of bullshit is what!

[samsingh]

22. begin from home moron bush

let's have demonocrasy here first.

[DebJ]

31. My thoughts exactly!

[progressiverealist]

23. anyone wanna bet he has a banner that says "SPREADING DEMOCRACY"

behind him? Probably with a different background though.

[hang a left]

24. How about this one

Mission Democracy

[screembloodymurder]

52. How about Crusade for Democracy

Afterall he is the Anti-Christ.

[grasswire]

26. what this means.....

....is that the case for PNAC empire will be put into short sentences and alliterative phrases, and sold to the American people. I'm sure that Hill & Knowlton consulted on the public relations aspect of it, and they poll-tested the approach.

[izzie]

27. With any luck the colonies may be lost once more.

Three cheers for the King.

[StephNW4Clark]

28. Funnily Enough - Clark is Going to Deliver a Speech on Foreign Policy

...and National Security on Thursday as well.

Now it may be too much to say at this point that it's a reaction directly to Clark...but maybe the cumulative pressure of Clark smacking Bush around - coupled with Iraq disasters and other candidates bashing Bush as well - makes Bush want to be pre-emptive one more time.

[tom_paine]

29. Hee hee-- what would Emperor Bunnypants* know about democracy?

How to subvert it, perhaps, while using Orwellian propaganda to convince people that they have it when they don't?

:puke: :puke:

Listening to Bunnypants* is like listening to Stalin, vis-a-vis the lying hypocrite thing...

[DoYouEverWonder]

30. The only thing W is spreading

is manure.

[Nay]

32. Right. Like he knows a goddam thing about democracy. Jesus.

[metisnation]

36. democracy??

What a joke.

[Triana]

39. He should stick to speeches on subjects...

...he knows something about.

Democracy is not one of them.

[screembloodymurder]

53. Jack Daniels

is his only expertise.

[minkyboodle]

40. Not to put on a Tin Foil Hat But

Do you guys think this might have something to do with all the reported activity and movement of US Bombers recently? Either way it will be a great day for freedom :( Hoping its just more bullshit rhetoric and no bomb dropping.
Scott

[moondust]

42. Spreading it to Florida?

Or is this about proliferation of the magic voting machines?

[Guaranteed]

43. This is very bad. nt

[study_war_no_more]

45. I wonder when he will remember the USA

Oh i fergitted everyting hunky dorky here. Cepting maybe ed ju ma ca tion.

[radfringe]

46. hmmmm….what does the little critter have up his sleeve this time?

he has the usual up his sleeve, give a speech, cut funding, award no-bid contacts to whoever gives him the most money at the fund raiser that will take place after the speech

usual M.O.

[leetrisck]

50. How long are we going to survive with the spreading

of bush's democracy. The American people have had more democracy taken from them in the past 3 years than I could ever have imagined

[grannylib]

56. This speech was nauseating...totally

He talked about the dangers of theocracy...does that only apply in the Middle East with Muslim religion? It's happening here now with his help!
He talked about 'responsible' societies providing health care...guess we are not a responsible society then, are we, Chimpy??

He is going to export democracy like he exports jobs...leaving American citizens with nothing...

[brucelee]

57. IN HIS SPEECH JUST JEBBER WRONGFULLY

HE SAID SUNDON LUNDAY TIME (INSTEAD OF SUNDAY LONDON TIMES )