Alan posted a comment in one of today’s threads about me calling myself a conservative liberal. He wrote: “which strikes me as similar to saying ‘I’m tall short’, a juxtaposition of opposites.”
I encourage him, and all of you, to read this entry at Wikipedia.
It is becoming more and more likely that Turkey will actively fight the PKK in northern Iraq:
The idea of launching a military operation into northern Iraq, where thousands of members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have found a safe haven, has taken center stage in recent debates over how to eliminate the terrorist threat, the worst manifestations of which the Turkish public has dealt with in recent days.| MORE ›
Bush continues to support his loyal Attorney General:
President Bush said Thursday that he would correct any problems uncovered in the investigations of last year’s dismissals of federal prosecutors, but he added that nothing had undermined his support for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
“If there’s wrongdoing, it will be taken care of,” Mr.| MORE ›
For an update about the campaign song contest go to Hillary Clinton’s official website.
You’ve got to admit, she’s got a good sense of humor.
Hillary Clinton voted against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill yesterday evening. Here is why:
“Tonight I voted against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill because it fails to compel the President to give our troops a new strategy in Iraq. I believe that the President should begin a phased redeployment of our troops out of Iraq and abandon this escalation.| MORE ›
This CBS poll certainly won’t make George W. Bush very happy:
- How is the war going? Well, 23%; badly, 76%.
- Did the US do the right thing going to war with Iraq? Right thing, 35%; should have stayed out 61%.
- Is the country headed in the right direction? Yes, 24%; no, wrong direction, 72%.
- Approve or disapprove of the job Bush is doing? Approve, 30%; disapprove, 63%.
Republicans are still, mostly, rallying behind Bush / the war in Iraq and the surge, but the polls show that Americans think quite differently.| MORE ›
US President George W. Bush told a journalist that Al Qaeda wants to kill the latter’s children:
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Well, that’s certainly true: if Al Qaeda would be able to, it would be happy to kill David’s children.
One minor point of criticism: Iraq, for one, wasn’t a safe haven for terrorists before the war.
A short while after I published a post about an article that appeared today in the Washington Post, I received an e-mail from the National Journal‘s Neil Munro. Neil shared two things with me: first, an article he wrote which appeared in the 5/12/07 edition of the National Journal; second, information from what will remain an unnamed source. According to the source, “there is a fundamental flaw” in before mentioned WaPo article:| MORE ›
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