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...They put a 2001 twist on so many things,” he said. Frank voted against giving Bush authorization to go to war in Iraq, unlike many Democrats who grew critical of the war only when the intelligence justifying the invasion of the war proved specious.“[Bush’s] defense in his assertion of WMD is not that he was right but that other people were wrong also,” said Frank.He turned to the Supreme Court, accusing President Bush of “blinking and winking and nodding” when it came...
...utterable badness. They did a cover article on me once in the Hollywood Reporter about two years ago, the entire thrust of which was that I was the person who sold the most things to Hollywood without anything getting made, which at the time I suspect was a completely specious argument anyway...
However, Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson, who is the Director of the Program on Education Policy at KSG, says such claims are specious...
...enough to persuade some European firms with substantial American business?such as BAE Systems, the U.K's largest defense company?to stay out of the China game. But for many other European firms, the lure of the China market will be too strong to resist and they will find specious justifications for their sales. (The most specious was offered by the French Defense Minister, who seems to have convinced herself that European exports will stop China's development of its own capability in high-tech systems.) Though the E.U. is working on a code of conduct that will...
Singer described a July 14, 2003 Oval Office press conference at which Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein had shut weapons inspectors out of Iraq—a claim Singer said is specious...