Wednesday, June 16, 2004
"Long-established ties" to failed foreign policy....
Cheney telling an audience "we'll find those WMD in Iraq soon, you'll see..." (or something)
Reagan-style Ketchup-is-a-vegetable redux: Team Bush™ says frozen battered french fries = fresh vegetables. (USA Today)
Vice President Dick Cheney is out of his mind. And was also probably responsible for lining his old company's pockets in a serious conflict of interest action. (CNN.com | Guardian UK)
Meanwhile, 9/11 Panel Finds No Collaboration Between Iraq, Al Qaeda. (Washington Post)
And Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change a group comprised of former high-level diplomatic and senior military officials, many of whom were appointed or served in Republican administrations, are expected to condemn the Bush administration's foreign policy and to assert that it has harmed national security in a statement to be released today. Like D'uh! (CNN.com)
But Bush Touts Afghanistan as Model for Iraq. Is that a model as in when only the capital is under central government control (and then only with the assistance of US marines and even then under pretty tenuous terms) while the rest of the country is under the control of heroin growing and dealing warlords or reconstituting factions of the Taliban? (Reuters | CNN.com | BBC World News)
