If I Were Bush's Speechwriter - Andy Rooney

[dArKeR]

Years ago, I was asked to write a speech for President Nixon.

I didn't do that, but I wish President Bush would ask me to write a speech for him now.

Here's what I'd write if he asked me to - which is unlikely:

My fellow Americans - (the word "fellow" includes women in political speeches):

My fellow Americans. One of the reasons we invaded Iraq was because I suggested Saddam Hussein had something to do with the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. No evidence that's so, I wish I hadn't said it...


...

I've made some mistakes and I regret it. Let me just read you excerpts from something my father wrote five years ago in his book, “A World Transformed.”

I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero …

This is my father writing this.

...assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war.

We should all take our father's advice.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/31/60minutes/rooney/main581171.shtml

Let's not always complain. Please send Andy a positive email:
There is an easy 'Feedback' button on the bottom of the link.


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If I Were Bush's Speechwriter - Andy Rooney
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/31/60minutes/rooney/main581171.shtml

Great story Andy, thanks for telling the truth!

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If I Were Bush's Speechwriter - Andy Rooney
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/31/60minutes/rooney/main581171.shtml

Please air this on 60 Minutes.

Great story Andy, thanks for telling the truth!

MyName

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I don't remember where these 2 emails go but they can't hurt to try.
[e-mail], [e-mail]

[Noordam]

1. Great speech but the part quoting Bush 41 is the

best. And goes against everything 43 has done.

[Sushi_lover]

3. 43 actually makes 41 look smart.

who'd have thunk it?

[reprehensor]

6. FDR Quote.

Killer quote. Where did you come across the quote and graphic?

[ablbodyed]

2. More hate mail for Andy...

But he can handle it. He was about the only one in the rush-up to was that had the guts to be critical of duck-anus. Good for Andy.

[beyurslf]

4. I hadn't seen those quotes from

Daddy yet. Those were great.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Andy goes back to Roosevelt.

He can handle Shrub.

[tlb]

7. Rooney was telling Imus he was wrong to oppose the war

just a couple of months ago. I wonder if he remembers which side he is on two days in a row.


Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:53 a.m. EDT

Andy Rooney: I Was Wrong, Bush Was Right

CBS "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney has become the first big media personality to admit that he was wrong to oppose President Bush's decision to liberate Iraq.

"I have not been a supporter of his. I did not vote for him. And I was very critical of what he did here," Rooney told radio host Don Imus Thursday morning.

"And I must say that fortunately, he's president and I'm not," the former Stars and Stripes correspondent confessed. "It appears as though he did the right thing and I didn't think he was doing the right thing.

"And, if he's listening ..." Rooney added, before trailing off into laughter.

Later in the broadcast Imus teased CNN's Jeff Greenfield about how his network's notorious Bush-hating newswoman Judy Woodruff was reacting to scenes of jubilant Iraqis celebrating their liberation and kissing Bush's picture.

"We just got this in from AP," Imus said in a serious tone. "A suicide watch has been put on Judy Woodruff."

Greenfield didn't sound particularly amused by the taunt.

[dArKeR]

8. Rooney is one of the 5 moral people left in America. I don't know

if your quote is of context or not because of no link. I would have to hear the entire story.

He has more morals and integrity than the entire GOP Party combined.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13495.shtml

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. I don't know the man's politics and I don't want to.

He's a shining example of real journalism. Even if someone were to prove him a Republican, I'll stand by that.

[dArKeR]

10. Rooney was awarded the Bronze Star with is not in his bios.

The citation for the Bronze Star read in part, “Technician Fourth Grade Rooney penetrated to the heart of St. Lo under small arms and open-range artillery fire and gathered, without regard to his own safety, firsthand descriptive material for a complete and accurate story.” The Rooney described was, of course, Andy Rooney of the CBS’ news magazine 60 Minutes.
http://www.amvets.org/HTML/news_you_can_use/magazine_spring2003_article4.htm

[corarose]

11. ???????????????

What do you mean by side?

We have boys and girls in Iraq being killed for Chimpy McCokespoons oil war and Andy Rooney is right and you are mad.

Why don't you join?