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...love America, and the British political classes invest great importance in their country's "special relationship" with the U.S. Still, it's safe to say that the sharp sense of disappointment expressed by Cameron isn't uncommon. "The past eight years have been dominated by the troika of Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, who have become increasingly unpopular in Europe," says Brooks Newmark, an American-born Conservative MP. He's an enthusiast for John McCain, who has cultivated close links with British Conservatives and addressed their conference in 2006. Newmark admits, however, that grassroots Tories tend to favor Barack Obama because...
...judgment. In his most measured behind-the-scenes look at the White House to date, Woodward stakes out a middle ground between 2002's hagiographic Bush at War and 2006's scalding State of Denial. While Denial seethes with a barely contained anger (mostly directed at Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld), The War Within closes its eyes and shakes its head slowly in resignation...
...Torie Clarke, the Pentagon's communications chief during the early years of George W. Bush's presidency and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld, published in February 2006 Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game. Clarke, who also served at one time as McCain's press secretary, argues in the book that sugarcoating bad policy doesn't make the policy any better. "A bad story is still a bad story...
...tried to transcend it. If you were to boil the past two eventful weeks down to their essence, you would have the Democrats wrapping McCain in the dead arms of the Bush presidency, and McCain trying to wriggle free. You'd have Democrats lasering in on the GOP of Rumsfeld, DeLay and Abramoff, and McCain reaching back to remind America of "the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan." Give us one more chance, he said, promising to "get back to basics...
...question of appeasement has long been barbed and dangerous in European history. Taking its measure became a major source of tension between old Europe and new Europe, to use the notorious nomenclature coined by former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during Europe's last big foreign-policy dilemma, over Iraq. This time, though, Europe was able to agree in a matter of four hours on a unified response to a direct and threatening neighbor...