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George Bush’s speech alarmingly persuades his audience by expressing powerful emotional reasons for the war against terrorism. George Bush’s speech is quite similar to Paine and Henrys’ speeches, because they all cover a great deal of pathos to enhance their discussion. Bush’s speech contains rhetorical questions, like when he asked, “Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding or will it be irrelevant?” Hence, Bush questioned his audience in order to impel them to cogitate on those issues. He exhibits them in a way that draws the intensity of his purpose of presenting reasons for the war, like Patrick did. For instance, Patrick queried, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!” Thomas Paine imposed strong, rhetorical questions as well, when he says: “What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my country man; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them?
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