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Obama: "I Stand Strongly by My Plan to End" Iraq War

2008-07-29T08:52:24Z

Barack Obama, July 15, 2008

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Barack Obama: On Iraq and National Security

2008-06-06T03:32:57Z

Barack Obama gave an address in Fayetville, North Carolina on Iraq and America's national security.

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On Obama: "Even in Africa we were hearing the Fox News spin"

2008-03-21T02:39:15Z

Thom Hartmann on Barack Obama's speech and the Iraq mess, via my patented, award-winning, internationally acclaimed quick notes:

On Barack's speech:

Stunning, Gettysburg-like.

Even in Africa, we were hearing the Fox News spin. [He's been there all week, just got back today]

In Kenya, they were asking [with enthusiasm], "What's going on with Obama?"

On Iraq:

George's Extraordinary Adventure: It's the 5th anniversary of the Iraq fiasco. He always wanted this, as Cindy Sheehan said at the Downing Street Memo hearings on Iraq, the one held in the basement of the Capitol.

And what are they doing on this 5th anniversary? Cheney is fishing off of the Sultan of Oman's yacht, and Bush [gave a speech and] is a liar.

We know, before he became president, he intended to use the invasion of Iraq for purely political purposes.

Not the Queen's speech, Brian Haw's

2008-06-11T21:30:20Z

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Protesters Arrested at UF Alberto Gonzales Speech

2008-06-13T15:36:40Z

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Martin Luther King - His immortal Vietnam speech

2008-06-14T03:30:55Z

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President Bush Speaks at the Heritage Foundation

2008-06-15T03:30:28Z

President Bush Speech at the Heritage Foundation,November 1, 2007

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Slate: Is Bush being deceptive or delusional?

2008-01-12T20:20:20Z

"President Bush's TV address tonight was the worst speech he's ever given on the war in Iraq, and that's saying a lot. Every premise, every proposal, nearly every substantive point was sheer fiction. The only question is whether he was being deceptive or delusional." Read the full article at Slate.

Democrat's Response to Bush's Iraq War Plan

2008-06-16T21:30:35Z

This could be some responses the Democratic Party could use in order to bring our troops home. Watch the entire show on www.theyoungturks.com

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Michael Ware is a better commentator than Gloria Borger and David Gergen

2008-01-12T20:20:11Z

No, I did not watch the speech. I haven't had dinner yet, and I didn't want to ruin my appetite. Or my day.

I also knew they'd replay it to death, or segments of it. And guess what! They did!

I only caught a few reactions, but the best by far was Michael Ware on CNN, who reports regularly from Iraq. He ripped through Bush's Happy Thoughts the way Katrina ripped through Heckuva Job Brownie's reputation. And he was not ashamed in the least to show his obvious disgust with Bush's speech, both visually and verbally.

Anderson Cooper played a clip of Bush saying that Iraq was getting back to normal, and Ware said, with great disdain, something like:

"If you call having no refrigeration, constantly living in the dark, being afraid all the time, and no longer having the friends in your neighborhood to talk to due to ethnic cleansing, then, yeah, Iraq is back to normal."

Even if I misquoted him, it's close enough. The point was made beautifully, with wickedly well-chosen words and body language.

Michael Ware: Tonights Best...Person...in the Wooooorld!

UPDATE: Here is the original quote:

WARE: "Absolutely. And if by the -- if the president means by ordinary life, families essentially living locked up in their homes, in almost perpetual darkness, without refrigeration, or perhaps constantly struggling -- struggling for ever more expensive gas to run generators, if he means waiting in their homes, wondering if government death squads will drag them off and torture and execute them, if he means living in sectarian, cleansed neighborhoods where people who were your friends have had to flee, if he's talking about living in communities that are protected by militias, then, yes, life has returned to ordinary."

Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

2008-07-09T16:26:40Z

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Bush's Speech on Iraq and Asian Wars

2008-06-17T15:32:45Z

Iraq and Vietnam and Korea, August 22, 2007

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Play "Bush or Gigli?"

2008-06-18T03:31:23Z

Steve reads a review and you guess whether it's a review of Bush's speech on Iraq or of the Ben Affleck movie, Gigli.

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Should the US Just THREATEN to Get Out of Iraq?

2008-06-05T21:29:54Z

Pres George W Bush's speech on the future of Iraq on January 10, 2007, offered few real solutions to the ethnic problems in the region, so I put together a solution of my own. In putting together my solution, I fairly used material from a variety of sources.

I took a short clip of video from Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation magazine that's available at: www.youtube.com

I took a clip of Pres George W Bush's speech available from the CNN website at: www.cnn.com

I also took short clips from longer segments available on the Comedy Central website. The clip from The Colbert Report comes from the segment available at: www.comedycentral.com

And, the clip from The Daily Show comes from the segment available at: www.comedycentral.com

The Iraq Study Group Report is available at: www.usip.org

The clip of This Week with George Stephanopoulos comes from a show still available in podcast form at: a.media.abcnews.com

Some good information about the Congress of Vienna is available at: www.bartleby.com

And, a copy of Wilson's Fourteen Points speech is available at: www.yale.edu

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John Edwards ROCKS DNC Winter Meeting (excerpts)

2008-06-06T03:31:48Z

Excerpts from John Edwards' speech at the DNC Winter Meeting on February 2, 2007 in Washington, DC. From an audience perspective.

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GOP Senator: Bush's Iraq policy should be "nourished"

2008-10-06T20:33:43Z

Full story at www.thebluestate.com

Just minutes after President Bush's speech on the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) furthered the notion that the current Iraq policy is working, and that Iraq will soon be a thriving democracy if we stay:

HUTCHISON: "What has gone right is that we have seen a constitution adopted by the people, we have seen an election, and we've seen a proud people participating in that election. That's the good part. And I think that has to be continued to be nourished. We have to have a democracy there that can work..."

Hutchison went on to add that she thinks we can make Iraq really stable.

Again, this sort of mentality that so much has gone right in Iraq is going to pro-long the war, and result in more American deaths.

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John McCain - Envisioning a New U.S. Foreign Policy

2008-06-07T09:36:08Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential candidate John McCain discusses his plans for an overhaul of U.S. foreign policy and defense.

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"An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom" with John McCain.

In the first week of his official presidential campaign, Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain paid a visit to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to talk about America's suffering international image, his proposal for a "League of Democracies" and his support for pressing on with additional troops in Iraq. -- Hoover Institution

John Sidney McCain III, is the Republican senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and serves on the Armed Services, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees.

He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. McCain formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election on April 25, 2007.

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Is Iraq a Lost Cause? NBC Today Show

2008-06-08T03:30:21Z

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Lawrence Korb shares his thoughts on the President's upcoming speech on Iraq with NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory for his piece for the Today Show. 1/9/07

Fore more of the Center's National Security work please see: www.americanprogress.org

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Bush Iraq Speech - Spencer Boyer Reacts on WTTG DC

2008-06-08T03:30:22Z

Center for American Progress Security & Peace Initiative Fellow Spencer Boyer shared his assessment of the President's Iraq policy speech with Fox 5 WTTG in Washington 1/11/07

www.americanprogress.org

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The State of the Union - John Podesta on NBC Nightly News

2008-06-08T03:30:26Z

Center for American Progress CEO & President John Podesta shared his thoughts on the current political climate for the President with NBC News White House Correspondent David Gregory. 1/23/07

www.AMERICANPROGRESS.org

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President Bush's Speech

2008-06-08T09:31:30Z

The Young Turks talk about President Bush's Speech Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and Jill Pike. Watch live from 6-9AM ET on www.theyoungturks.com. Listen from 6-9AM ET on Air America Radio.

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Young Turks interview Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ)

2008-06-08T09:32:05Z

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and Jill Pike discuss how House Republicans have been saying the same "crap" for four years. Watch live from 6-9AM ET on www.theyoungturks.com. Listen from 6-9AM ET on Air America Radio.

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Right Wing Talking Point Desperitis

2008-06-08T09:32:15Z

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and Jill Pike talk about how President Bush and the Republicans are getting desperate in trying to fit their talking point into reality.
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