Comments Posted By Gregdn
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The thought that the president can simply identify someone as an enemy combatant and then hold them indefinitely should send a chill down all of our backs.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 12.06.2007 @ 15:06
This kind of behavior belongs in a banana republic.
Sorry Rick, but I've got to agree with some of the posters above that this administration has followed a 'take it or leave it' policy since day 1. Particularly galling to me was the inference that some of us who had justifiable concerns about warrantless wiretaps 'don't want us to listen in on Al Qaeda's phone calls'.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 1.06.2007 @ 17:26
FRED THOMPSON: THE MAN, THE MOMENT, THE MESS
The war's going to overshadow everything else the Republican candidates think or say. So far all the leaders are following Bush right off the cliff (IMO).
Comment Posted By gregdn On 31.05.2007 @ 11:15
I'm hoping one of the Reps (Hagel, perhaps?) can lay out a new foreign policy that's not so dependent on the military.
Don't discount the idea that this was a purposeful leak on the part of the Administration.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 23.05.2007 @ 08:11
At any rate, this might explain why Iran has charged that American woman with spying.
MUSINGS ON A LATE SPRING AFTERNOON
Both the Dems and Reps seem bereft of ideas right now. After 5 years of Bush's foreign policy I think even his most adamant supporters would admit that a) it hasn't reduced the threat of terrorism and b) may have even increased it. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on with no foreseeable end. We need to change our game plan.
Comment Posted By Gregdn On 19.05.2007 @ 17:00
I'm really disappointed that all the front runners in the GOP race seem to want to continue on the present course.
Great ananlysis of the situation. I'd have to ask "what have learned from this?" Your comment about the Bush Docrine ("our days of nation building and democracy promoting are over..") is (hopefully) correct. This was undoubtably the dumbest foreign policy put forth by any President in our history. If Iraq spells the end of it, it will have been worth it.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 11.05.2007 @ 08:39
Re: your comments on Ron Paul. It's too bad most Republicans nowadays don't know who Taft was. IMO we could use someone like him, specifically to repudiate the foolish 'Bush Doctrine'.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 4.05.2007 @ 08:13
DEMS TO VOTERS: "WE WERE ONLY KIDDING."
The Democrats had to offer something to their base- which wants us out of Iraq now. They can now pass a bill more palatable to Bush.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 3.05.2007 @ 08:14
I don't know why you think it unusual for Congress to pass a bill that won't survive a veto- they do it all the time.
Rick, you know you're doing something right when you begin to take flak from both the left and the right.
Comment Posted By gregdn On 30.04.2007 @ 08:29
I think Bush has been purposely vague about timeframes for us to stay in Iraq. He's never renounced permanent bases, which makes me suspect that he still thinks the Iraqis will be our friends and partners in the war on terror (something I think is a pipe dream).
I would much more admire him if he would come out and say something like "I think our mission will require us to be there for at least 10 year".
A TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE OF MEDIA BIAS
"Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who’s in charge of training Iraqi troops, said in February that he hoped that Iraqi troops would be able to lead by December..."
Well, at least he didn't say which December!
Comment Posted By Gregdn On 21.04.2007 @ 10:25
