Mommy, What's plagiarism

Rape and pillage the first episode, just change the order a bit. Those sons of bitches out there ain't gonna know the difference. All that shit is just filler for the interview anyway. We film a new intro. Show some old footage from the first episode so they get a brief history of Mickey and Mallory. We introduce a new angle... - Wayne Gale, Natural Born Killers

Repetition works, David. Repetition works, David. - Wayne Gale, Natural Born Killers

Dubya just put forth his best effort to save his own ass, and it wasn't an effort. I couldn't help but think of NBK as I was watching the bullshit spew from his mouth as he basically repeated the same exact things he has been saying for a long-fucking times.

Here are the new additions:
Abu Ghraib prison will be torn down, and a new maximum-security prison will be put up in its place (probably with more security to protect film from escaping the prison)
We are keeping the level of troops at 138,000 instead of slowly pulling out of Iraq.

I think thats about it. The five steps he outlined, otherwise, were: Giving sovereignty to Iraq, establishing Iraqi security, Continue Rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure, Getting the international community to help out, and just generally moving to the free election by January. He reminds us that the violence will further spike, and that we have indeed lost quite a few of Saddam's higher ranked officers and loyalists into foreign terrorist cells.

Oh, did I mention the further exploitation of Nick Berg, even thouh he wasn't mentioned by name. And, he was only getting ready to be killed, though Al Zarqawi was only suspected to be the man with the knife. (I still think that the video was faked with further evidence here)

So, Bush said nothing new, and nothing new was all it was. *sigh* He hinted that Iraq was the central point of the terrorist organizations, and if we win in Iraq we almost win everywhere, which is a major fallacy. He doesn't hint that we will be applying pressure in any of the other surrounding countries to release the terrorist cells. He doesn't hint that we will be doing anything after we get Iraq settled, really. But, then, the speech, I guess, was supposedly only on Iraq, not on the war on terror as a whole.

It seems that Bush's speech writers are working from the same ideology that Wayne Gale worked on to manipulate the audience for ratings in 1994's Natural Born Killers (both scripts: Tarantino's and Stone's). What a gyp.