Well, here it comes – the pre-Semptember Administration campaign to sell us on the idea that Bush’s Surge is working. We know about the ad campaign using Ari Fleischer. Then there was Bush’s speech about the comparisons with Viet Nam, bolstered by the usual sarcastic Weekly Standard commentary from William Kristol ["Like a pig in […]
Bush’s Vietnam Blunder Desperate presidents resort to desperate rhetoric — which then calls new attention to their desperation. President Bush joined the club this week by citing the U.S. failure in Vietnam to justify staying on in Iraq. Bush’s comparison of the two conflicts rivals Richard Nixon’s "I am not a crook" utterance during Watergate […]
A lot of bloggers are turning their sharp tongues on various Democratic candidates, or on Harry Reid, or on Nancy Pelosi, or on the Democratic Congress in general. Not me. With their bare Majority, turncoats like Lieberman, the blue dog Democrats, the persistant Conservative edge in the electorate, the Republican Dirty Tricks Machine, and the […]
White House Declares Office Off-Limits Administrator of Missing E-Mails Not Subject to Open-Records Law, It Says The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off a civil lawsuit seeking the release […]
The donors who are financing the new multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign arguing against a withdrawal from Iraq include a Who’s Who of former Bush Administration ambassadors (to plum assignments like France, Italy, and Malta); a least one of Bush’s original Pioneers; the man ranked by Forbes (in 2006) as the third-richest American; and, of course, […]
from Talking Points Memo …We are bigger than Iraq. By that I do not mean we, as America, are bigger or better than Iraq as a country. I mean that that sum of our national existence is not bound up in what happens there. The country will go on. Whatever happens, we’ll recover from it. […]
Trex – Firedoglake
Senior DoJ Official Resigns from Civil Rights Post Yet another resignation from the Justice Department. Wan Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, announced today that he’ll be leaving at the end of the month, according to a statement from the Justice Department. Kim took the helm at the troubled Civil […]
Sometimes you read something that just "clicks." KagroX’s post [Reversing Watergate] on The Next Hurrah was such an article for me. I had read Jane Mayer‘s article on David Addington in The New Yorker last year. I had noted Steve Clemons‘ review of this article and his comments about Cheney. And I have read and […]
There is no evidence that the South Vietnamese would ever have been able to accomplish on their own what they failed to achieve with massive American assistance. The level of congressional funding was irrelevant … The Nixon administration, like the Johnson administration before it, could not give the South Vietnamese the essential ingredient for success: […]