Category: Politics, Religion & Money

[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/JAN07/SOTU.flv 400 300]

Many bloggers who are far more educated, erudite and knowledgeable than myself will have much to say about tonight’s State of the Union speech. So I’ve selected just one minute of it.

Bush refers to the 19 men who “got onto airplanes” and came “to kill us.” Fifteen of those men were from Saudi Arabia.

Tonight, Bush said, “The great question of our day is whether America will help men and women in the Middle East to build free societies, and share in the rights of all humanity.”

I’ve been to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and let me tell you something. Secure it is. Free it isn’t.

Hear any talk of invading Saudi Arabia? Didn’t think so.

More guns equal more murders in U.S. states: study

Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:58pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American states where more people own guns have higher murder rates, including murders of children, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported on Thursday.

I stopped paying attention to Bush’s speech about his latest plans for Iraq after he said this, because it’s the only part that matters.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/JAN07/BushSpeech.mp3]

Going door-to-door to gain the trust of Baghdad residents? Don’t think so. There’s going to be a clamp-down. The residents of Baghdad are already terrified to leave their homes, and now they’ll be terrified in their homes. A lot of civilians are going to get killed.

As I predicted, there will be no change in Iraq, except for escalation. Why is this being called a change in policy? It’s a change in military strategy.

We’ve had 160,000 troops there before, with the difference this time being they’ll concentrate on Baghdad. But weren’t there two all-out battles to secure Fallujah? How successful were those, and will the outcome in Baghdad will be any different?