George Bush 9/11 Speech Analysis

After the “September 11 attacks”, President George Bush took a speech on the September 20th. As for the background, on the September 11th, the terrorists attacked in New York in the United States, the twin towers are destroyed, which are the symbol of American dream and prosperity buildings. This picture is terrible, incredible and unbelievable. Nearly three thousand people died. Everyone got into a sadness, fear, disappointment, and panic environment. Bush gave another television speech first at half past eight in that evening, which speech gave American people a strong power to calm down. This oratory, which was taken on September 20th, is focus on to show the government can deal with this problem well, to tell the terrorists that they will

It's practiced freely by many millions of Americans, and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah. The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.”In this part, Bush used his religious language. It’s not only an expression about his personal belief, but also a useful political strategy. Religion was taken as a mechanism in his speech. He made the religion more simplified and even used it to replace listeners’ idea. He put himself as high as the God to set himself at the side of righteousness. He used the simple and easy-to-understand words, in order to pass his idea to the listeners. Religion is like a shield to Bush. Nobody will debate the religion. He talked about the religion’s importance for a country. The most important thing was Bush divided America into the righteous sight clearly to persuade people to believe his ideas and behaviors were true; all the things he did were serving the Americans. He associated his position with the listeners’ values. It included his affirmation that the men and women should be treated equally, the equality of all person regardless of race or color, and the affirmation of freedom for America and freedom to be expanded to other