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Authors and journalists face a strange dilemma today: on the one hand, the disastrous policies of the Bush administration and the proximity of the upcoming 2006 midterm elections are rich material for any writer. On the other hand, this temptation has saturated the shelves of Barnes and Nobles with books on Iraq and the Bush administration. Another book on the subject risks getting lost in the shuffle...
...most interesting part of the book came at the epilogue, when Rich attempts to reason why the administration was so adamant in going to war. The reasons, Rich concludes, were for “Rove and Bush to get what they wanted most, slam-dunk midterm election victories, and for Libby and Cheney to get what they most, a war in Iraq for ideological reasons predating 9/11.” To think that almost 3,000 American soldiers (and even a larger number of Iraqi civilians) are dead just for those reasons is chilling...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election...
They stayed at home in large numbers instead of voting in the 2000 election, or so Karl Rove has always maintained. They came out for President Bush in 2004 and were key to his re-election, or so they like to claim. Now, just weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm congressional elections, one of the last unknowns of a wild and potentially historic campaign season is: What will Christian conservatives do this time...