Larisa boils Bush's speech down to 10 highly manipulative and misleading points

and, as is her wont, does an outstanding job of it...

The real speech is...

In my view, if you take out all the filler, that is, all of the items not in bold, you get a real sense of what is being said, here is the summary version:

1. We were asked by the Iraqis to help defend them from Al Qaeda, an Iraqi evil that attacked us on September 11, 2001.

2. We defended the Iraqis against Al Qaeda and they were appreciative and vowed to continue what we started, so our mission to come to the defense of the Iraqi people was a success.

3. But other countries (Iran) and groups (Al Qaeda) keep interfering, killing Iraqis and Americans alike, despite all of our progress.

4. We won't be safe from another 9/11 attack until we secure Iraq, which we cannot do because Iran and Al Qaeda won't let us.

5. Iran, Syria, and Al Qaeda are the real problem, not our efforts to secure Iraq, which have proved a success.

6. Patriotic Americans will understand this, despite their party affiliations, they understand that until Iraq is secure, we are not safe, and we cannot secure Iraq because of Al Qaeda and Iran.

7. Those in the region and elsewhere better take sides now, because you are either with us (our energy war) "for peace" or against us - terrorists - who will not have peace.

8. We have a moral obligation to the Iraqi people and an security obligation to our own country to ally ourselves with Iraq as she defends herself from Al Qaeda and Iran.

9. The leaders of Iraq and the United States have agreed to defend Iraq from terrorism from Al Qaeda and interference from Iran, who is likely soon to have WMD to use against the entire region.

10. We must secure Iraq and stop the enemy (any country, but for the present Iran, who controls the global energy market).

lies... damned lies...

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