Ted Bridis of AP put out a (deliberately inflammatory?) story on February 24, saying:
The United Arab Emirates gave the Bush administration $100 million to help victims of Hurricane Katrina weeks before a state-owned company there sought U.S. approval for its ports deal.
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The U.S. government (said) the money it received from the United Arab Emirates was […]
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President Bush, in a Friday speech:
“We can expect the coming days will be intense. Iraq remains a serious situation, but I’m optimistic, because the Iraqi people have spoken” their desire for democracy through elections, he said.
I’m curious to know how voting in one, maybe two elections establishes democracy as a stronger force than wanting to […]
3/17/03:
All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing. For their own safety, all foreign nationals — including journalists and […]
Longtime lefty William F. Buckley Jr.:
Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans. The great human reserves that call for civil life haven’t proved strong enough. No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move […]
Here’s what played out at Scott McClellan’s press briefing last Monday on board Air Force One, as the President was en route to multiple Energy Initiative photo ops with press corps in tow:
Q Does the President use any solar energy at the ranch? Or does he or any member of his family use a hybrid […]
Once upon a time, music used to be scratched out on vinyl discs, and reconstituted into sound by strange machines with tone arms. And the discs were known to the people as LPs. And every once in a while, something like the following would happen to an LP: to honor the sacrifice of […]
So after months, if not years, of tip-toeing around the question, we are finally confronted with the Iraq resolution that no one wanted—a full-on civil war. Forget democracy. Forget purple fingers and glowing reviews of the security forces. And forget the idea that, finally, we would be able to slowly ease out of Iraq by […]
Reuters:
Asked if Bush did not know about the ports deal until it was a “done deal,” (McClellan) said, “that’s correct.”
Could this really be our Scottie? No evasion, no stonewalling, no obfuscation? Just a straightforward yes? Even when it reflects poorly on the President?
President Bush is under attack from all quarters again, this time over the imminent “takeover” by DP World of “operations” in six major American ports. Much to my own surprise (I never thought this day would ever come) I’m somewhat on his side. That is to say, I just don’t get the whole […]
