Archive | June, 2008
James Kirchick: Bush never lied to us about Iraq
Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that “top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11.” Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were [...]
Continue reading...‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.
Published Monday, June 9, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: A Gaffe, an Absurdity, and a Policy
Published Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Obama cited Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as presidents who met with enemies. Does he know no history? Neither Roosevelt nor Truman ever met with any of the leaders of the Axis powers. Obama must be referring to the pictures he’s seen of Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, and Truman and Stalin at Potsdam. Does [...]
Continue reading...John R. Bolton: Obama the naive
Published Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Barack Obama’s willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea “without preconditions” is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign. Consider his [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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