Overreach. The DoJ may be hesitating in directing the US District Attorney for southern Iowa in going after the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Mointes.
Sorry guys, I don't think this is going away that easily.
"But Mr. McClellan was peppered with questions about things that the records did not show. He was asked, for instance, why the White House had not brought forth 'comrades in arms' of Mr. Bush to offer reminiscences of their service together in the Air National Guard.
"Mr. McClellan said, as he did repeatedly, that the documents speak for themselves and prove that Mr. Bush fulfilled his duties.
"'I wasn't talking about documents,' a questioner said. 'I was talking about people.'"
It goes beyond that, though, as Richard Cohen illustrates in describing his own service in the guard in the closing days of Vietnam. First Cohen notes that it's pretty easy to get paid for days guardsmen simply didn't show up. But Cohen's larger point is that it was disingenuous of Bush to compare his guard duty in the 70s with the men and women in the national guard who are risking their lives in Iraq today. The guard then was a ticket out of harmsway; there's simply no comparison with the guard today. And for Bush to imply differently is either willful ignorance or a shameful deceit that does disservice to the modern day National Guard.
More reviews on Sunday's weird performance. This time on Bush's revisiting of the old canard that Vietnam was a failure because it was fought by politicians, here and here.
Oh, and what was George doing all those weeks in Alabama? Kevin Drum points us to an anecdote. Pretty. Sounds familiar.
And oh those presidential commissions. This one is doomed to failure. With the choice of "Judge" Silberman, the fix is in.
Sorry guys, I don't think this is going away that easily.
"But Mr. McClellan was peppered with questions about things that the records did not show. He was asked, for instance, why the White House had not brought forth 'comrades in arms' of Mr. Bush to offer reminiscences of their service together in the Air National Guard.
"Mr. McClellan said, as he did repeatedly, that the documents speak for themselves and prove that Mr. Bush fulfilled his duties.
"'I wasn't talking about documents,' a questioner said. 'I was talking about people.'"
It goes beyond that, though, as Richard Cohen illustrates in describing his own service in the guard in the closing days of Vietnam. First Cohen notes that it's pretty easy to get paid for days guardsmen simply didn't show up. But Cohen's larger point is that it was disingenuous of Bush to compare his guard duty in the 70s with the men and women in the national guard who are risking their lives in Iraq today. The guard then was a ticket out of harmsway; there's simply no comparison with the guard today. And for Bush to imply differently is either willful ignorance or a shameful deceit that does disservice to the modern day National Guard.
More reviews on Sunday's weird performance. This time on Bush's revisiting of the old canard that Vietnam was a failure because it was fought by politicians, here and here.
Oh, and what was George doing all those weeks in Alabama? Kevin Drum points us to an anecdote. Pretty. Sounds familiar.
And oh those presidential commissions. This one is doomed to failure. With the choice of "Judge" Silberman, the fix is in.
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