"GUEST,TIA beat me to it, Teribus. Yesterday, while listening to a news broadcast regarding Bush's State of the Union speeches, the radio station played excerpts from his previous speeches." (Don Firth)

You see Don that is the trouble with almost everything you base your opinions on, its all done on what is reported. "a news broadcast regarding Bush's State of the Union speeches, the radio station played excerpts from his previous speeches" Now then Don who got to select those excerpts? and why were those ones chosen? While listening to that broadcast Don did either of those questions flit across your mind?

Guest TIA look again, this time preferably reading, the passage you have cut'n'pasted. In each case it is a combination of a state linked to terror in the case of North Korea it is domestic but for the other two:

"Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror."

"Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror."

The references are quite blatant, and I will stand by what I said:

"If you read his speech the "Axis of Evil" consisted of an international terrorist group a rogue state that possesssed WMD and which would be prepared supported international terrorism by supplying them with WMD or WMD technology."

Because that is what I got from reading the whole speech, not some sound byte extracted from the whole or invented by some journalist or reporter with an agenda all of his own.