Boondocks is still trying to get Condi a date!
"...Bush's political handlers know he has been wounded. Yesterday, they were bemoaning the image of the President being at his Texas ranch for a down day between five political events.
"'It would have been a lot better if he'd been at Camp David and could have gotten right back instead of getting ready for a fund-raiser [today],' one adviser lamented."
I never know who's spinning whom in DeFrank's interesting psychological scoops. Is the point here that Bush knew what the dangers were going in, prepared himself for them, and so remains resolved and certain of himself? Or is it that the political side of the White House is beginning to crumble, so "senior administration officials" are trying to distance Bush from the Rovists, who are getting that uneasy feeling during the daily poll watch?
But if Bush -- and by extension Rummy, Rice, and the Rest -- knew what they were getting into, then why such an utter lack of planning for the postwar, as the NY Times magazine corver story illustrates in great detail.
Hope is not a plan. Cliches are not strategy.
Even now, after faulty intelligence was used to get us where we are today, on the ground intelligence in Iraq seems to not be a priority, as Fred Kaplan points out. And the fact that they quickly hid this report indicates that the centralization of information is the goal of the administration -- which makes clear why Bush put Rice in total charge of reconstruction planning -- all the better to control the dissemination of that information. After all, Bush doesn't want his generals unveiling the situation on the ground or questioning his judgment in the media.
Bush won't even allow the dead their dignity. And who knew anybody is getting wounded over there?
In fairness, it seems to be a long-standing policy on the part of the Pentagon to not give the press tours of VA hospitals during wartime, as Lawrence Kaplan believes, during a very interesting interview he gave to Bob Garfield during the Oct. 31 edition of "On the Media." All of the amputees, Kaplan (who was a supporter of the action in Iraq and is continues to be) claims, gives Walter Reede hospital, one of the finest in the world, "the feel of a Civil War hospital."
And then there's the economy, stupid. Bush is crowing, but things may not be quite what they seem. This is the manic depressive economy. Krugman is unconvinced.
"...Bush's political handlers know he has been wounded. Yesterday, they were bemoaning the image of the President being at his Texas ranch for a down day between five political events.
"'It would have been a lot better if he'd been at Camp David and could have gotten right back instead of getting ready for a fund-raiser [today],' one adviser lamented."
I never know who's spinning whom in DeFrank's interesting psychological scoops. Is the point here that Bush knew what the dangers were going in, prepared himself for them, and so remains resolved and certain of himself? Or is it that the political side of the White House is beginning to crumble, so "senior administration officials" are trying to distance Bush from the Rovists, who are getting that uneasy feeling during the daily poll watch?
But if Bush -- and by extension Rummy, Rice, and the Rest -- knew what they were getting into, then why such an utter lack of planning for the postwar, as the NY Times magazine corver story illustrates in great detail.
Hope is not a plan. Cliches are not strategy.
Even now, after faulty intelligence was used to get us where we are today, on the ground intelligence in Iraq seems to not be a priority, as Fred Kaplan points out. And the fact that they quickly hid this report indicates that the centralization of information is the goal of the administration -- which makes clear why Bush put Rice in total charge of reconstruction planning -- all the better to control the dissemination of that information. After all, Bush doesn't want his generals unveiling the situation on the ground or questioning his judgment in the media.
Bush won't even allow the dead their dignity. And who knew anybody is getting wounded over there?
In fairness, it seems to be a long-standing policy on the part of the Pentagon to not give the press tours of VA hospitals during wartime, as Lawrence Kaplan believes, during a very interesting interview he gave to Bob Garfield during the Oct. 31 edition of "On the Media." All of the amputees, Kaplan (who was a supporter of the action in Iraq and is continues to be) claims, gives Walter Reede hospital, one of the finest in the world, "the feel of a Civil War hospital."
And then there's the economy, stupid. Bush is crowing, but things may not be quite what they seem. This is the manic depressive economy. Krugman is unconvinced.
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