Phase II of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on intelligence on Iraq is out, issued on a Friday as is usual with reports you want to keep out of the news.
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Senate report: no relationship between Saddam, Al QaedaQuotes of the day (war hawks on Iraq today)An editorial in the Hartford Courant notes that the National Review, the conservative biweekly, recently asked scholars, military experts and geopolitical strategists to reflect on Iraq. The Courant notes that the consensus was that the situation is bad and getting worse, despite the fact that most of the commentators come from "the hawks' aviary." Among the views: Conservatism seems to be the same everywhereI know we're supposed to be hating Iran right now, until the next change in the war schedule, but come on, it's the conservatives pushing that line and how can they hate a country whose president sounds so much like them? Let no vote go unsuppressedPaul Weyrich, moralist supreme, has said so many frightening things about Christian conservative revolutions, tearing down modern institutions, and the like, that my hair curls whenever I actually hear the name. Quote of the dayAfter you basically call them traitors, you can't then expect them to cooperate with you.Norm Ornstein, analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, addressing the likelihood that Congressional Democrats will be in a mood to cooperative with Republicans in the upcoming legislative session. A bad day at "GOP rock"Things just haven't been the same for the national Republicans since the slew of indictments, investigations, revelations, and bad war news. For example, I doubt that Ken Mehlman can read this day's worth of headlines without feeling the need for just a few drinks, or some Pepto. Conservative Media, Thank YouWho keeps saying the MSM is still liberal? I'd love to know how that bit of rhetoric can even exist, especially in this last week... If it's the thought that counts....Check out these four excerpts from national leaders speaking about wars of ideology. Can you match the speech with the speaker? From Heroes to Zeros--WTC workers dangle as the bills roll inAsk any elderly veteran fighting the VA system for medical and nursing care how long hero status lasts. Or ask any of the many, many World Trade Center workers who searched and cleared the site after 9/11. Quotes of the dayTo me, one of the greatest reasons to support our democratization efforts -- whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in the Middle East generally -- is the prospect that instead of being inflamed by propaganda or controlled by oppressive regimes people in that region will have the freedom to come to the United States and decide for themselves what America is all about. Frances Townsend, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. [No word on how the citizens of these other countries will be able to afford their trips here, or whether having Americans visit foreign countries might accomplish a similar goal]
When you have more money in your pocket, you get to spend the money. You get to make the decisions. And the fundamental question facing government is: who best to spend your money? You or the government? President Bush, in his Labor Day speech at Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education. [Apparently the prez has not been told that Americans have IOUs, not money, in their pockets] |
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