"In the first half of the speech, the words "terror" or "terrorists" were used 14 times; some form of "kill" ("killers," "killed," "killing") 10 times; war 7 times; and that doesn't count the various stand-ins for war or warlike actions ("aggressive raids," "attack," "offensive," "patrols," "operations," "battle," "armored charges," "midnight raids," "on the offensive," and the slightly more opaque "pursuing a forward strategy of freedom in the Greater Middle East," a favorite phrase of our vice president as well);"weapons" was used 8 times (usually in the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" or "of mass murder," or in one case in the extraordinarily convoluted phrase, "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities..."  from Tom Dispatch at http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/indexprint.mhtml?pid=1202

Bush says "no one can doubt the word of America."  But how about the CIA?  They just announced that Iraq is on the path to civil war.  Bush just glossed over the whole issue in his SOTU address.  The Bush Administration is relying on the same technique of scaring the shit out of everyone in order to maintain control over the population and the resources of the world. 

The real state of the Union: An average of 9 soldiers/day have been injured in Iraq since we ivaded, 

16,000 Iraqis have died, $100 BILLION spent as of 2003,

$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became President in 2001,

$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003,

10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 33,

2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration,

221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000

43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002

40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is responsible

88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes

$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes

58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging and drilling

200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken

from http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-01.htm