Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager
Hilarious!
Cutting through the bull gravy since 2006
Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified.
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"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do."
It's like Where's Waldo trying to find the Democrat on THE ENTIRE LINEUP of Sunday Talk Shows:
ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C; U.N. Secretary-General-designate Ban Ki-moon; former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" - First Lady Laura Bush.
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NBC's "Meet the Press" - Rev. Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life"; Newsweek editor Jon Meacham.
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CNN's "Late Edition" - Repeats of past interviews with President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others.
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"Fox News Sunday" - Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney; Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl; Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham.
"I'm sure Democrats were invited but in an effort to keep the sabbath holy and spend time with their families during the holiday, they declined all invitations to the Sunday talk shows. And Conservatives, hating God, family, and Christmas, were all to excited to spend Christmas Eve on such a secular pursuit as politics"
(Not that it explains why CNN is showing re-runs of Republicans)
GUESTS:
• Fmr. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA), Speaker of the House 1995-1999
• David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times
• Tom Friedman, Columnist, New York Times
At the risk of this blog turning into a Howard Dean/Paul Krugman/Jim Webb propaganda tool, I'll let Governor Dean tell you what he thinks of the 2006 election:
Which is to say, not much at all:
At a reception following the midterm election, President Bush approached Senator-elect James Webb.
“How’s your boy?” asked Mr. Bush.
“I’d like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,” replied Mr. Webb, whose son, a Marine lance corporal, is risking his life in Mr. Bush’s war of choice.
“That’s not what I asked you,” the president snapped. “How’s your boy?”
“That’s between me and my boy, Mr. President,” said Mr. Webb.
Good for him. We need people in Washington who are willing to stand up to the bully in chief. Unfortunately, and somewhat mysteriously, they’re still in short supply.
So Mr. Bush will keep sending other men’s children off to fight his war. And he’ll always insist that Iraq would have been a great victory if only his successors had shared his steely determination.
Does this mean that we’re doomed to at least two more years of bloody futility? Not necessarily. Last month the public delivered a huge vote of no confidence in Mr. Bush and his war. He’s still the commander in chief, but the new majority in Congress can put a lot of pressure on him to at least begin a withdrawal.
I’m worried, however, that Democrats may have counted on the Iraq Study Group to provide them with political cover. Now that the study group has apparently wimped out, will the Democrats do the same?
Well, here’s a question for those who might be tempted, yet again, to shy away from a confrontation with Mr. Bush over Iraq: How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a bully’s ego?