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November 2, 2006
WB: Whatever It Takes
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Perle says Bush is clueless
An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message
By Al Kamen
Wednesday, November 1, 2006; page A19
Richard Perle … blistered the administration as “dysfunctional” when it comes to stopping someone from bringing “a nuclear weapon or even nuclear material into the United States.”
… But President Bush, Perle emphasized, is not to blame for this sorry state of affairs. “I haven’t the slightest doubt that if one could … put this proposition to the president, he would first be shocked to learn that we don’t have the capability. Secondly, [he] would immediately order that we develop it.”
Here’s the video clip:
http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1097
Posted by: sysprog | Nov 2 2006 5:55 utc | 1
Here’s the video clip:
http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1097
Posted by: sysprog | Nov 2 2006 5:57 utc | 2
What an odd position for a POTUS to find themselves in. Too fascist to be embraced by most members of his own party, and not nearly fascist enough to satisfy slobbering extremists like Richard Perle. Bush’s base has been cobbled together from the radical fringes of such out-of-control absolutists, fundamentalists, homicidal hawks, puritans, and other walking, talking cartoons that there is no way to satisfy them all.
The only advice left to keep stringing along these disparate nightmare visions is “Promise anything! Anything!” There isn’t even a message for the Republicans to stay on anymore.
Shiny.
Posted by: Monolycus | Nov 2 2006 6:15 utc | 3
But President Bush, Perle emphasized, is not to blame for this sorry state of affairs.
Ach, if only the Fuhrer knew.
Posted by: billmon | Nov 2 2006 6:24 utc | 4
The telling part is not that one can find loonie-toons and clowns like Perle and Bush, but that the wall-street bosses have allowed them to drive the car.
Posted by: citizen k | Nov 2 2006 7:31 utc | 5
Kerry was aiming a joke at Bush,trying to say that an intellectually lazy president is more likely to drag his nation into a war like Iraq. Except he missed.
And the the “collateral damage” of his botched attempt at humor turned out to be the GI’s serving in Iraq. If the The Republicans are milking this, it’s because they have precious little else to work with.
Posted by: ralphieboy | Nov 2 2006 14:23 utc | 6
Kerry is a shill.
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How can Democrat bloggers moan about vote fraud or theft and in the same breath, or in the next paragraph, rally people to go out and vote en masse for that-or-that candidate? (Just from my recent reading.) Is the idea that if the Demos ‘win’ by 20% they will really ‘win’ because the Repubs. will only be able to steal 10%?
Fraud of any kind is tricky at first. Once it has been shown to work, it tends to be implemented again and again, with little change. Particularly if people are up in arms about it and nothing happens. I read that it is expected that many Repubs. will not vote at all – they have turned away from Bush and the Party and won’t vote for a Democrat. Unexpected turnout? Heh.
Posted by: Noirette | Nov 2 2006 17:31 utc | 7