# Bush's new speech - Wow! AKA "If I say it, it must be true"

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-new-speech-wow-aka-if-i-say-it-it-must-be-true/335604 "2005-12-14T17:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-new-speech-wow-aka-if-i-say-it-it-must-be-true/335604/81 "2005-12-16T19:37:58Z")

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> [@David Simmons](#):
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> Saddam was not longer a threat to the US. I think that GW doesn’t really have a good hold on reality. Like Rep. Murta it is my view that the US maintains a military force for its own defense and not for the defense of the Iraqis against their domestic tyrant. And we the people certainly didn’t buy into maintaining a large military to bring democracy to Iraq. Had any president proposed spending billions on military forces for such reasons he, or she, would have been laughed out of office.
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> The after-the-fact rationalizations and the ease with which they are picked up and parroted by so many make me fear for the future of the American experiment in self-government.

Bravo. You are a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot. As long as we have people like you in America, we will have hope.

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**Author:** ![flintlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cc9497/32.png) [@flintlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flintlock)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-new-speech-wow-aka-if-i-say-it-it-must-be-true/335604/82 "2005-12-16T19:54:53Z")

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Bush 2 is to Bush 1 as Old Elvis is to Elvis.

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-new-speech-wow-aka-if-i-say-it-it-must-be-true/335604/83 "2005-12-17T02:24:59Z")

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> [@vibrotronica](#):
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> Bravo. You are a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot. As long as we have people like you in America, we will have hope.

Well, thank you. However I shun the title “patriot” which has long since been debased by the 200% Americans among us.

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