After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, George W. Bush needed to address the nation with the words of comfort and encouragement. With a confident, furious tone, he spoke of the horrors that filled the hearts of millions with grief and despair. Throughout his speech, Bush creates a sad, eerie mood with the use of words such as "evil," "terror," "chaos" and "retreat." He "connects" with the audience by putting himself in the "our" and "us." However, to me this speech sounds more violent than it should have been. When people are as vulnerable as they were on that day it is rather easy to play on their emotions, and instead of calming them down, he evokes more fury and anger. Consider this sentence: "A great people has been moved to defend a great nation." This is a call for violence, a call for more blood and destruction. I do not think that this message is what the country needed. Americans had to be united, but not for the intentions of war, but to survive through the pain and pay tribute to the victims.
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