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Thursday, December 1, 2005

David Broder -- Washington Post.com

A Pox on Both Parties By David S. Broder Thursday, December 1, 2005; Page A25 To understand why the level of public disillusionment with politics is so high in this country right now, it helps to go back a dozen years. The Democrats took power in 1993 with a young and obviously talented Bill Clinton succeeding George H.W. Bush, who seemingly had played out the string on the shift to conservative government Ronald Reagan launched in 1980. Clinton took office as a plurality president, but with... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

from Newsweek..............................................................

Trim and Tiptoe Bush says he won't cut and run. But he does have a strategy on Iraq. getCSS("4314136") HOWARD FINEMAN getCSS("9272922") var cssList = new Array(); getCSS("3235842") var cssList = new Array(); getCSS("3235842") var cssList = new Array(); getCSS("3235842") • var cssList = new Array(); getCSS("3235842") // SETTINGS var oData = new Array(); oData.ID = "srchbox"; oData.appWidth = 300; oData.appHeader = "Search the Site"; oData.appDeck = ""; oData.mainArt = ""; oData.HeaderIcon =... Sign in to see full entry.

From the White House ......................................................

President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland Fact Sheet: Training Iraqi Security Forces In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq In Focus: National Security 9:45 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thanks, please be seated. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's good to be back at the Naval Academy. I'm pleased to provide a convenient excuse for you to miss class. (Applause.) This is the first year that every class of... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Joe Lieberman in the WSJ

Our Troops Must Stay.............................................................. America can't abandon 27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists. BY JOE LIEBERMAN Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Our accomplishments in Iraq make for long list November 28, 2005 BY MARY LANEY Advertisement Oh, for a George M. Cohan. Oh, for a writer of songs like his "Over There" today. All the noise, all the static, and not a bit of music to herald these United States these days. We're over there, we Yanks, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait. We kicked the Taliban thugs out of Afghanistan, sent them packing, and worked with the populace that emerged from the rubble, allowed a government to form, citizens to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

American casualties mount in Iraq, politicians now fight over who said what

No hype needed: Saddam, al-Qaida linked By Victor Davis Hanson 0 ) { document.write(' '); document.write(' '); document.write(' RELATED NEWS FROM THE WEB '); document.write(' Latest headlines by topic: '); document.write(' '); for( i = 0; i ' + topixcats[i].name + ' '); } document.write(' '); document.write(' Powered by Topix.net '); document.write(' '); document.write(' '); document.write(' '); document.write(' '); } //--> As American casualties mount in Iraq, politicians at home now fight over... Sign in to see full entry.

We are winning, and winning decisively, in Iraq and the Middle East. WSJ

BY JAMES Q. WILSON Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST President Bush and Vice President Cheney are arguing against critics of the Iraq war who are trying to rewrite history. There is some value in this, but it is a fight about the past and not about the future. What most Americans care about is not who is lying but whether we are winning. I offer this speech that the president might use to tell Americans that we are winning: My fellow Americans: We are winning, and winning decisively, in... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 25, 2005

Liberty not just here but everywhere. Indeed, liberty for its own sake.

November 25, 2005 America's Unique Devotion to Liberty By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON -- Uniquely among the capitals of the world, Washington's monumental core pays homage to the word. The glory of the Jefferson Memorial is not the Founder's statue but, carved in stone around him, his words on religious freedom, inalienable rights and sacred honor. At the Lincoln Memorial, one cannot but be moved by the eyes and grave bearing of the martyred president, but even more moving are the surrounding... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

We elect someone to serve as president of all people not half the people...

11/28/05 By David Gergen Getting Out of the Bunker I n her splendid new book, "Team Of Rivals," historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells of a day when men were true leaders. Unexpectedly beaten for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860, William Henry Seward of New York could easily have sat out the election; instead, he threw himself into the fall campaign and sent his former rival, Abraham Lincoln, to the White House. Lincoln could have dismissed three of his rivals for the nomination;... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 19, 2005

George Orwell remarked "the quickest way of ending a war is to lose it"...

Abandoning Iraq Does Rep. Murtha understand the consequences of immediate withdrawal from Iraq? by Robert Kagan & William Kristol 11/28/2005, Volume 011, Issue 11 REP. JACK MURTHA has had a distinguished congressional career. But his outburst last Thursday was breathtakingly irresponsible. Nowhere in his angry and emotional call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq did the Pennsylvania Democrat bother to ask, much less answer, the most serious questions his proposal raises. What... Sign in to see full entry.

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