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How Bush Sold the War

                   
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May 27, 2008
        
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Security, not democracy, was the reason we invaded Iraq. Why the radical shift in presidential rhetoric? ... In the fall of 2003, a few months after Saddam Hussein's overthrow, U.S. officials began to despair of finding stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.... [read full story]                    

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McClatchy Boys Take Scotty, the White House and the "Liberal Media" to the Woodshed...

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McClatchy Boys Take Scotty, the White House and the "Liberal Media" to the Woodshed...

atlargely.com
May 29, 2008
        

Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, my good friends and the few reporters who actually did their job during the Iraq war build-up, are pissed and I am fully backing their anger. Here is what the McClatchy boys (as I call them) have to say to the "Liberal Press" and the White House with regard to...

                   

Feith's Desperate Cries

armchairgeneralist.typepad.com
May 28, 2008
        

It's just sad, sad when you see a former distinguished OSD leader jumping up and down saying "listen to me! buy my book!" in a desperate attempt to reclaim his legacy from the trashcan. White House officials understandably preferred to declare affirmative messages about Iraq's future, rather than...

                   

Which War?

mudvillegazette.com
May 28, 2008
        

Greyhawk] Doug Feith:On May 22, 2004, I gave Mr. Rumsfeld a memo to pass along to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the president's speechwriters. I proposed that the speech "should deal with some basics – in particular, why we went to war in the first place." It would be useful to...

                   

A question of rhetoric

powerlineblog.com
May 28, 2008
        

Douglas Feith, author of the invaluable book War and Decision, has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal criticizing the way President Bush "sold" the war in Iraq. The resulting embarrassment caused a radical shift in administration rhetoric about the war in Iraq. President Bush no longer...

                   

The Problem With An Inarticulate President…

decision08.net
May 28, 2008
        

…is not that lack of eloquence means lack of intelligence, but rather that a president who cannot speak well cannot sell well. Now, Iraq was hardly going to be an easy sell (it WAS an easy sell, until the much-expected WMD stockpiles turned out to be a mirage), but President Bush (and this is...

                   

How Bush Sold The War

patdollard.com
May 28, 2008
        

By DOUGLAS J. FEITH - (WSJ): In the fall of 2003, a few months after Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, U.S. officials began to despair of finding stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The resulting embarrassment caused a radical shift in administration rhetoric about the war in Iraq....

                   

Using His Words

julescrittenden.com
May 27, 2008
        

Feith at WSJ dickers over rhetoric, says Bush should have stuck with the script on removing Saddam as a security threat, terrorism backer, not shifted to pegging it all on establishing a stable democracy in Iraq. One problem. It never was an either/or.

                   

Selling the Iraq war and chewing gum at the same time [Karl]

proteinwisdom.com
May 27, 2008
        

Douglas J. Feith has a piece in the Wall Street Journal on “How Bush Sold the War,” which argues that President Bush’s focus on promoting democracy in Iraq has been a grave error: In the fall of 2003, a few months after Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, U.S. officials began to despair of finding...

                   

Neocons, Reconstructed and Unreconstructed

tnr.com
May 27, 2008
        

Francis Fukuyama, a registered Republican and a central figure in the rise of neoconservatism in the 1980s, widens his break with the movement by endorsing Barack Obama for president. He describes Obama as "the only one of the candidates who can escape the polarization" of American politics....

                   

The GOP's Iraq Problem and Ours

theamericanprowler.com
May 27, 2008
        

In an exchange over this Doug Feith op-ed, Byron York gets to the heart of why much of the electorate has turned against the Iraq war:For many of us, the war was supposed to be about U.S. national security and only about U.S. national security. It would be nice if we could make Iraq a better...

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