The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Political Quote of the Day
“So far the terrorists’ plan seems to be working. Even most Republican senators are demanding a withdrawal strategy. But it is the Democrats who are stampeding toward the exits. Apparently the death of about 2,100 soldiers over the course of almost three years is more than they can bear. Good thing these were not the [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Here is the whole document as released from The White House.
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The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
How upset elite Washington must have been yesterday after President Bush finished delivering his speech on Iraq at the Naval Academy. With notable exceptions, nearly every Democrat — and, sadly, not a few Republicans — have spent their autumn attempting to disassociate themselves from what they perceive to be failure in Iraq and a president [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
President Bush yesterday traveled to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapo lis to assert that America’s overrid ing goal in the war in Iraq is — victory.
That’s a strange declaration to be making 33 months after U.S. tanks first rolled into Iraq — but it was timely, necessary and more than welcome.
Indeed, the [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
While American civilians and politicians debate when and whether to withdraw troops from Iraq, the buzz among some military lawyers has been a recent Pentagon rule change that they say potentially limits service members’ ability to defend themselves.
In June, the Pentagon changed its Standing Rules of Engagement to allow commanders to limit individual self-defense by [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Republican poll numbers may resemble a bowling ball dropped down a well, but that doesn’t mean Democrats should feel particularly buoyant.
A recent poll indicates seven of 10 Americans think Democrats’ attacks on our illegal, incompetent, Halliburton torture-rama oil war depress the morale of troops. The survey, reported by that wild-eyed intemperate rag The Washington Post, [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
The House Democratic leader may have just handed a victory to the Congressional GOP.
Today, Nancy Pelosi endorsed withdrawal from Iraq. Her statement is a political opportunity for the GOP.
Until now, it seemed to me more likely than not that Democrats would win back the House in 2006: Bush’s numbers are bad; the GOP is [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
The Bush administration is partly responsible for declining poll numbers and the growing public disapproval of the war in Iraq.
Instead of responding immediately to questions concerning the reasons for the war and the honesty of top-level members of the administration, it allowed these allegations to fester until they became accepted, in many quarters, as fact.
This [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Like every other business, the business of war has changed.
Centuries ago, a war ended when one army defeated another on the battlefield. But in the modern world of total war , a war isn’t over when one army defeats the other. A war is over when the population of the country whose army has [...]
The Bear on Dec 01 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
What the CIA is willing to do to hurt the Bush administration.
THE CIA’S WAR against the Bush administration is one of the great untold stories of the past three years. It is, perhaps, the agency’s most successful covert action of recent times. The CIA has used its budget to fund criticism of the administration [...]
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