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Were trailers full of hot air?
On 17 Jul 2003 17:48:47 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
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In the next paragragh, Bush again portrays SH as an emerging nuclear power. A
dictator "assembling the world's most dangerous weapons". He finishes with a
few sentences of cheap, graphic references to horrific torture procedures to
further demonize Hussein. ((Hussein probably is/was a real *******, I'm not
disputing that, only pointing out the techniques with which we were decived and
manipulated in the SOTU speech)
"The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already
used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own citizens dead,
blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are
obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to watch.
International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the
torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid
on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape. If
this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)"
I didn't spend a lot of time reading your analysis of each paragraph, thank God.
I went to the bottom to see your line of 'reasoning' about the last paragraph.
You state, "In the next paragraph, Bush again portrays SH as an emerging nuclear
power." Where? Bush refers to, "...the world's most dangerous weapons...used
them on whole villages." This is not a reference to nuclear weapons, unless SH
used some nukes that no one knows of.
"...thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. ...torturing
children..." These are what you call, "...cheap, graphic references .. to
further demonize Hussein." He may have been demonizing SH, but not without
cause. SH was/is a demon. I cannot, for the life of me, see how you can put down
anyone for demonizing him. Did you feel manipulated? Do you honestly believe SH
was a good guy in disguise? If he really was a bad guy, then the pronouncement
of same is not 'manipulation'.
I'm glad Bush didn't wake up and say, "It's a sunny day in Washington, D.C.
today." All you folks would be searching for that one cloud to make him a liar.
Face it, you'd be much happier if you just wrote, "I hate Bush, I hate Bush, I
hate Bush, ..." ad infinitum.
John
On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
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