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Fineman compares Bush to Saddam

Wed Jun 29, 2005 at 01:42:54 PM PDT

On MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8405365/), Howard Fineman reviews Chimpy's speech.  The piece starts off marvelling at what a bold, resolute leader GWB is.  But, towards the end, Fineman lets loose with this:
And there was something eerily, even disturbingly, evocative about the president's speech at Fort Bragg. Here was a wartime leader depicting a nation under siege -- his own -- in what looked to be an airless, windowless place, speaking to a silent but supportive cast of beret-wearing military officers. Seeking to steel them for the struggles ahead, in which the very existence of the nation was at stake, he recalled the country's great victories of the past. He called for new recruits to join the army, and on citizens to express their patriotism by creating public displays. He vowed he would never to give in -- which brought thunderous applause from his loyal if perhaps a bit nervous officers. As he rallied his own corps, he seemed to imply that anyone who questioned the course he had set was exhibiting traitorous weakness.

We have to remake the Middle East, not turn into it.

This is a pretty clear signal that the MSM has turned on Bush.

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