From the New York Times
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[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/washington/01bush.html?hp&ex=1157169600&en=7aae099fb0df93fd&ei=5094&partner=homepage|Wiping a tear from his eye], Mr. Bush told the story of Cpl. Adam Galvez of Salt Lake City, a marine who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq and was buried Wednesday.
Corporal Galvez’s parents attended the speech, which coupled familiar phrases about fighting terrorists “overseas so we do not have to face them here at home” with a fresh effort to lump various strains of Islamic extremism into what the president called “a worldwide network of radicals that use terror to kill those who stand in the way of their totalitarian ideology.’’
Democrats said Mr. Bush’s strategy of painting them as weak on national security would not work this year and accused him of trying to divert attention from his record.
“After six years,’’ said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, “they’ve got only fear to sell.’’
Another Democrat, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, called the Bush speech “a long repetition of old messages and rhetoric to scare the American people’’ and said she would push for a Senate vote calling on the president to replace Mr. Rumsfeld.
“This latest Rumsfeld rampage cannot stand,’’ Ms. Boxer said.With Congressional Republicans fighting to hold on to their majorities in the House and the Senate, the speech came at a delicate time. Many of those lawmakers view the war as a political liability and have spent the past month at home getting an earful from voters.
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Gus: Same old stuff... But then, some hypothetical comes along the Guardian
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Channel 4 courts controversy with mock Bush assassination

Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Friday September 1, 2006
The Guardian
Channel 4 is set to [http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1862524,00.html|spark a furore] in the US this month when it unveils a documentary-style film in which George Bush is assassinated.
Set in October 2007, the 90-minute drama uses a mix of archive footage, computer generated imagery and documentary techniques to portray Bush's assassination and America's reaction to it. Death of a President, which will also headline the Toronto film festival, will be seen first in this country on sister channel More 4 before being repeated on the main channel.
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Gus: I would not wish this assassination bizo to anyone but could our president impeach himself or something?