Word: saddamism
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...with the message "She's dead. Do you get it?" Still, her mail from the g.o.p. continues to arrive almost weekly. Maybe, since deceased voters have been known to cast ballots, it's in the party's interest to keep sending mail. Jane Koch Montclair, Virginia, U.S. Strategic Miscalculations Saddam denied having WMD all along [Oct. 18]. He did not mislead anyone. We just did not believe him. The media failed to ask probing questions about the alleged WMD that would have triggered a debate about the Bush Administration's case for going to war. I blame the media...
...drip drip drip of discouraging news punctuated by the occasional sensation amplified by an eager and often partisan press. The finale was the 380 tons of explosives that had disappeared, only possibly on Bush's watch, out of a total of more than 650,000 tons left behind by Saddam Hussein. Banner-headlined, it dominated the news--and Kerry's attacks--in the final week of the campaign...
...elected. A key may be the fate of Donald Rumsfeld. He wants to stay on at the Pentagon, but the President may decide that a fresh start requires the sacking of the man who presided over the Abu Ghraib abuses, the no-bid Halliburton contracts and the post-Saddam planning disaster. The "legacy" Republicans believe it is an absolute necessity for Bush to replace his current foreign-policy team, swapping the neoconservative idealists who provided the rationale for invading Iraq for more pragmatic, traditional conservatives. "But I don't think it's going to happen," a member of George...
...tripping a buzzer if those debates were to put him back in the race. The first debate--the one on foreign policy--would be the crucial one. Kerry was going to have to make two big, risky points: The war in Iraq was not the war on terrorism, and Saddam Hussein was not Osama bin Laden. Again and again, Klain coached Kerry: "He says Saddam? You say Osama...
...would he be sending to the troops who were in precisely the same position 35 years later? And if he said he would never have invaded Iraq, wasn't he admitting the point that Bush was making every day on the stump, that if John Kerry had been President, Saddam Hussein would still be in power...