President Reminds Us Of Our Priorities, Terrorism Is Real Threat

President Tries to Win Over a War-Weary Nation

By Dan Balz and Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 12, 2006; Page A17

President Bush's Oval Office speech last night was the culmination of two weeks of efforts to rally the nation behind his policies and presidency by summoning the memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Five years after that indelible day, however, this president's capacity to move the public is severely diminished.

There were echoes of the language and logic Bush invoked five years ago when he united a stricken nation looking to him for both comfort and leadership. But he was speaking to a different nation last night.

Setbacks in Iraq have soured a majority of Americans on that mission. Falsely optimistic predictions of progress have undermined the administration's credibility. A majority of Americans question fundamental elements of the president's argument, including his contention that Iraq is the central front in the campaign against terrorism.

Cumulatively, it leaves decidedly uncertain whether this week's flood of rhetoric and remembrance can alter Bush's perilous circumstances -- at a critical moment for the future of the Iraq mission and the president's own domestic standing 56 days before the midterm elections.

When members of the paleo-media spend their every waking moment denouncing the President and the War in Iraq, it is no surprising that the President's poll numbers have declined over the past years. You members of the media have been fighting on the side of our enemies virtually since day one.

The Democrats and you people seem incapable of comprehending the seriousness of the war in which we are engaged. You seem incapable of comprehending or remembering that 9/11 actually occurred. You and your Democrat allies seem to believe that regaining power in the government is of greater than importance than protecting our nation or fighting the war on terror.

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