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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57587)	12/16/2004 11:32:54 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Gen. Shinseki was not Monday morning quarterbacking when he said (BEFORE the war even began) we needed 360,000 troops.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57587)	12/20/2004 4:57:29 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

(Excerpt) "And let's not kid ourselves anymore. Iraq is a disaster. Though I supported the initial overthrow of Saddam, I think it can be said now that the management of the war has been so poor as to render it a mistake. The costs to our nation and the Iraqis have been enormous. And worse, there is no evidence of an end in sight." From the Intellectual Conservative. An elite "liberal" publication, no doubt! ;-)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57587)	12/20/2004 5:05:19 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 81568

(Excerpt) "What we are witnessing here is a failure of leadership. While there appears to be a growing recognition of the gravity of America’s condition—the prospect of endless deficits, a dollar in a death spiral, constant hemorrhaging of manufacturing and high-tech jobs to Asia, growing dependency on imports for the vital necessities of our national life—there seems to be neither the will nor vision in Washington to arrest an inexorable U.S. decline." That's Pat Buchanan, writing in the American Conservative. Of course, another elite liberal article in another elite liberal rag. ;-)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57587)	12/20/2004 5:07:34 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

(Excerpt) " At this writing, the staffing of a new foreign-policy apparatus is not complete. But the broad strokes are plain. At CIA, there is a new emphasis on loyalty to the president over readiness to provide objective analysis; Porter Goss will ensure that the agency provides information that the White House wants to hear. At the cabinet level, the direction is clear. Colin Powell is leaving, exhausted by his losing tussles with the Pentagon, semi-humiliated by the president. His crime was that he was right about war in Iraq, right that we needed allies and more forces for the invasion, right that postwar Iraq would be chaos and quagmire. His caution about the use of force —the Pottery Barn rule—must have irked the president every time he saw him, so better to banish him. Promoted instead are those who were consistently wrong. Rumsfeld remains, though his neocon aides “stovepiped” phony intelligence about Iraq’s WMD capacity, he botched the post invasion, and was responsible for the Abu Ghraib torture. Stephen Hadley, who “forgot” to remove the false claims about Iraq’s yellowcake purchases from the president’s 2003 State of the Union speech, is the new National Security Adviser. Condi Rice, whose TV musings about “mushroom clouds” helped frighten a nation into an unnecessary war, becomes the nation’s top diplomat." Pah! Another elite liberal writer from the same elite liberal rag, "The American Conservative" ;-)