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Vice President DICK CHENEY, during a rare trip abroad, accusing Russia of selling weapons to Iran and using "brute force" against Georgia...
...last week, however, the percentage of white Evangelicals who planned to vote for McCain was still 10 points lower than the final percentage of those voters who went for Bush in the last presidential election. The most conservative Evangelicals - the ones who served as foot soldiers for the Bush-Cheney campaign, mobilizing their neighbors and fellow parishioners - were the least enthusiastic about McCain's candidacy. And many leaders of the Christian-right establishment were ostentatiously withholding their endorsements of the Arizona Senator...
...that President George W. Bush's actions in Iraq play into the Russians' hands. Two years ago, when Israel invaded Lebanon and killed hundreds of innocent civilians, our Administration cheered the onslaught. How can we criticize their aggression and belligerence when the U.S. under Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney acted similarly with respect to Iraq? I do hope Barack Obama and John McCain follow Brzezinski's advice, and I hope NATO and the rest of the international community can persuade Russia to leave Georgian territory or make the political and economic consequences as painful as possible. Andy Paquet, Uniontown...
...policy, The Dark Side, which I read simultaneously with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly you understand how George W. Bush could abdicate his authority and allow Dick Cheney and his alarming chief of staff, David Addington, to abandon the Geneva Conventions and engage in the most gruesome forms of torture. You can easily see Charlie Blackwell--whose (inaccurate) notion of the efficacy of torture would have been shaped by Hollywood--passing off the tough and the ugly jobs...
...abdication of personal responsibility--on torture, on the war in Iraq (in which authority was transferred first to Cheney and then to David Petraeus), on the regulation of major economic institutions and, of course, after Hurricane Katrina--will come to be seen, I suspect, as the defining failure of George W. Bush as President. One hundred years from now, historians will scratch their heads and ask themselves the same question that plagues Alice Blackwell: How did this amiable but feckless man ever get to be President? Curtis Sittenfeld has provided a plausible secret history of an American embarrassment...