Cyrus
09-21-2004, 03:56 AM
John McCain seems a bit exasperated with the Bush hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil attitude about Iraq. He said (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/19/iraq.senators/index.html) on FoxNews that Bush was not being "as straight as maybe we'd like to see" with the American people about Iraq.
And he's not the only decent Republican to worry publicly about the whole mess. Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran who is co-chairman of George W Bush's re-election committee in Nebraska, had this to say on "Face The Nation" : "The fact is, a crisp, sharp analysis of our [Iraqi] policies is required. We didn't do that in Vietnam, and we saw 11 years of casualties mount to the point where we finally lost". While Senior Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, who is also Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said "the incompetence in the [George W Bush] administration" led to only $1 billion spent out of $18 billion appropriated last year by Congress for reconstruction efforts.
Piling sober analysis onto the spreading discontent, comes along the National Intelligence Estimate that finds the prospects in Iraq to be " bleak (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/17/us.iraq.intel/index.html)". Ouch.
As to "America's faithful allies", the Brits, they too are getting restless with the American president's policies. The Bush argument about this being part of "The War Against Terror" curs no mustard with the Brits. Former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, who resigned from the Cabinet over the Iraq war, dismisses that argument.
"There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in," he told The Times newspaper. " It was we (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/20/britain.allawi/index.html) who gave the perfect conditions in which al Qaeda could thrive [in Iraq]."
...But, what, me worry? /images/graemlins/smile.gif Let's have four more years of this.
And he's not the only decent Republican to worry publicly about the whole mess. Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran who is co-chairman of George W Bush's re-election committee in Nebraska, had this to say on "Face The Nation" : "The fact is, a crisp, sharp analysis of our [Iraqi] policies is required. We didn't do that in Vietnam, and we saw 11 years of casualties mount to the point where we finally lost". While Senior Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, who is also Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said "the incompetence in the [George W Bush] administration" led to only $1 billion spent out of $18 billion appropriated last year by Congress for reconstruction efforts.
Piling sober analysis onto the spreading discontent, comes along the National Intelligence Estimate that finds the prospects in Iraq to be " bleak (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/17/us.iraq.intel/index.html)". Ouch.
As to "America's faithful allies", the Brits, they too are getting restless with the American president's policies. The Bush argument about this being part of "The War Against Terror" curs no mustard with the Brits. Former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, who resigned from the Cabinet over the Iraq war, dismisses that argument.
"There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in," he told The Times newspaper. " It was we (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/20/britain.allawi/index.html) who gave the perfect conditions in which al Qaeda could thrive [in Iraq]."
...But, what, me worry? /images/graemlins/smile.gif Let's have four more years of this.