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I don't know exactly how one goes about resigning from the Republican party but after watching that garbage I am ready to do so. I have begrudgingly stayed with the party despite its obsession with tax cuts for the rich, fundamentalist Christian morality, and escalating the national debt. I accepted the theory that Saddam Hussein was a danger to his country and a destabilizing force in the region. I might have even sort of believed that military action in Iraq could help fight terrorism.

But I will not believe that after years of involvement with thousands of US soldiers dead, tens of thousands wounded, and unknown numbers of Iraqi deaths, that we are now in a position to escalate our presence by sending additional troops and extending the service of troops currently in the field, with a stated mission of securing and stabilizing Anbar province and the Baghdad area, a mission that has no defined end, and no specific goal.

Bush's delivery last night was mechanical, disturbing, even Orwellian in its perfunctory rejection of every reasonable alternative. I'm out.

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Its actually weird to just read a Bush speech. Because if you read it without his delivery, it probably reads as a better speech then what was actually delivered.

The sad thing to me is that he's always been this way. People who voted for him the first two times thought this was acceptable.

Its odd that you, a lifelong Republican, was so turned off by the speech. I can't stand Bush but I found a glimmer of hope in the speech. Odd.