Tag: bush
member name: John M.
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October 22, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
One frequent challenge to my previously expressed centrist views can be framed as follows: How do you reconcile your professed frustration with the status quo of our governments current policy positions . . . more
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October 20, 2006 05:22 PM EDT --
It looks like a civil war is overtaking Iraq. It is not something we sought or should seek because of the human suffering that will result. Nevertheless it may very well occur despite all preventive efforts. . . . more
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November 12, 2006 12:20 PM EST --
Remember those old gangster movies when Harvey Keitel the mature, unemotional, experienced pro along with his crew was brought in by the mob to clean up after a totally botched and particularly bloody . . . more
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December 24, 2006 09:33 AM EST --
If you will recall the wonderfully uplifting movie "Saving Private Ryan" the underlying themes regarded patriotism, heroism, citizen soldiers, self sacrifice, the value we place on human life, . . . more
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November 05, 2006 11:41 AM EST --
From where I sit in a Northeastern blue state two days before the midterm election two messages from the people are about to be delivered. To George Bush: You have made errors in Iraq that will have devastating . . . more
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November 15, 2006 09:36 AM EST --
For twelve long years the Democratic Party has been relegated to a backwater societal role equivalent to the "Ungodly Unwashed" of premodern India. The recent tumultuous election rinsed all of . . . more
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November 26, 2006 04:36 PM EST --
I disagree with all the conservative pundits who say that the Democrats have no mandate from the voting public. But then again, I also disagree with old line liberals who assert that now is the time to . . . more
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April 14, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
In one of the editorials printed in today's New York Times the matter of finding a new czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is discussed: "We have long suspected that there is no one . . . more
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January 28, 2007 03:55 PM EST --
We are the not so proud parents of an immature Iraqi government that behaves irresponsibly. We fear they cannot survive if we don't protect them. We watch their every halting ineffective move with . . . more
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December 03, 2006 04:07 PM EST --
Everyone has been puzzled as to why Bush waited till after the election to announce that Rumsfeld was leaving when it may have served his interests and those of the Party to do so prior to the vote. The . . . more
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January 10, 2007 08:36 AM EST --
In my last article Middle Eastern Trump Card I discussed a revised view of where we are in the Middle East and how it could be used to our advantage. Todays Wall Street Journal had a column that comes . . . more
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October 21, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
Ned Lamont has a lot going for him in the upcoming election against Joe Lieberman, the incumbent Senator from Connecticut. He is bringing out all his guns, in this upcoming week, and will be using his . . . more
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October 27, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
We all respect and and hold in the highest admiration John McCain and Bob Kerrey former Senator from Nebraska and now President at the New School. These two Vietnam war heroes represent the best that our . . . more
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October 28, 2006 11:07 AM EDT --
It's raining heavily this Saturday in Connecticut and the winds are gusting at 25 to 40 mph. Folks are home for the weekend and happy not to have to go out and shatter the pervasive stillness with . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:18 AM EST --
As we survey the domestic and international terrain over the next two years it should be apparent to all that US ascendancy and triumphalism will not characterize the period. This will be a time for modesty . . . more
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November 14, 2006 08:58 AM EST --
I recently encountered a puzzling controversy in response to an article about the war involving military vs civilian control.The question was posed: How can someone who has never served, know better about . . . more
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December 30, 2006 11:01 AM EST --
We know very well what we hated about Saddam Hussein and thankfully those cruel characteristics have departed along with the man. Justice has been done, but the long delay between capture and punishment . . . more
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January 30, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
Today's New York Times contained an article titled "The Growing Chorus of Antiwar Conservatives" by Bruce Bartlett.
What follows are sections of that piece which names well known conservatives . . . more
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June 03, 2007 09:45 AM EDT --
The major argument for the purportedly comprehensive immigration bill is that it is the only alternative to the deportation of twelve million (and still counting) illegal immigrants. Since a deportation . . . more
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October 25, 2006 10:25 AM EDT --
If we originally went into Iraq because of a strongly held carryover belief from the first Gulf war that we didn't truly finish the job then the Neo Cons and Tom Freedman of the NY Times provided the . . . more
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