Analysis Of Senator Robert Byrd's Speech Arrogance Of Power

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The Speech “Arrogance of Power: Today, I Weep for my Country...” by Senator Robert Byrd is more persuasive. He tries to persuade members of the Senate that the United States was arriving into a imprudent and unnecessary war. His thesis states “Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.” Byrd pleas to both the Senate and the American people in order to positively dispute his argument; this becomes obvious in his use of the cooperative expression in paragraph two. The main argument used is that Byrd impulses the people, the politicians, and citizens of the United States leave the conceited purposes of the War on Terror and concentrate on peaceful diplomacy. In paragraph 11, he writes, "Why

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