Okay, after watching the SOTU I had several thoughts. But let's get the highlights out there quickly. From the speech itself:

(...)Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least hesitation.

This threat is new; America's duty is familiar. Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. In each case, the ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the will of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of the United States of America. (Applause.)

Now, in this century, the ideology of power and domination has appeared again, and seeks to gain the ultimate weapons of terror. Once again, this nation and all our friends are all that stand between a world at peace, and a world of chaos and constant alarm. Once again, we are called to defend the safety of our people, and the hopes of all mankind. And we accept this responsibility. (Applause.)(...)

Hmm. Let's see. Isn't Pakistan a valuable ally who sold WMD to North Korea because they ran out of money? And is it just me, or is the line about the "small groups of men...set out to dominate the weak" oddly man-in-the-mirror-esque? And since when were people at war against "Hitlerism"? Is our President Don King? Does he coin new words instead of using traditional ones? He could have easily said "fascism, totalitarianism and communism" and omitted the "ambitions" part. But maybe he thinks the Great People of America don't understand complicated words like fascism or totalitarianism. Go figure. And finally, last time I checked, we lived in a world of chaos and constant alarm. We just didn't wake up until 9/11.

At the speech itself I thought of an idea for next year: if a powerful group got the speech, put it on a five-minute tape delay, and then broadcast it along with little pop-ups (ala VH1's pop-up video technique) to rebutt Bush's claims, I bet lots of people would watch it. You'd need a big staff and people who were fast on their feet, but you could put together a nice little show that hungry dems like myself would love to tune into. A sort of political MST3K, if you will.

For a text-version site that does just this (albeit mostly partisan rhetoric rather than good solid facts...which my show would rely upon without any additional commentary, much like when CNN ran little captions under the Representatives during the Enron hearings which showed the name of the Rep or Senator along with how much money they'd received from Enron over the years.) go to this website.