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snugs: Thank you for posting the DOSE tonight . . . The President looked and sounded GREAT today — love the lime tie juxtaposed to his black suit!
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ROVE TAKES QUESTIONS ON IRAQ, CIA CASE
Brent Gardner-Smith - Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Against the backdrop of a renewed level of carnage in Iraq over the weekend, Karl Rove remained unapologetic Sunday morning in Aspen about the war in Iraq.
Rove — whose titles include assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President Bush — spoke at the Greenwald Pavilion at the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute.
“Look, I make no apologies,” Rove said in response to a question from the audience about whether he felt personally responsible for the war.
“It was the right thing to do. The world is better off with him gone,” he said, referring to Saddam Hussein. “We all thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world did. He didn’t.”
Rove said that Hussein had the intent to develop new weapons, and he tied the war in Iraq to the administration’s global “war on terror.”
“In the aftermath of the removal of the regime, al-Qaida decided to make its stand in Iraq,” he said. “And we have got to, in my opinion, fight ‘em and win ‘em and beat ‘em there, otherwise we are going to face them somewhere else.”
Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson interviewed Rove at the morning session of the Ideas Festival and asked him if the Bush administration would redefine the mission in Iraq.
“Yes, we will be redefining the mission because the goal of the surge was to get us to a place where we could redefine the mission,” said Rove. “Our goal is to be in a place where the United States’ principle role is to help protect the territorial integrity of Iraq, to hunt down al-Qaida and Jihadist elements, to assist and train the Iraqi army, and to provide force protection to our assets there.”
Overall, Rove said the goal was to make the “U.S. combat footprint smaller,” but he also surmised later in the interview that when the next president is sworn in on Jan. 21, 2009, plenty of American troops would still be in Iraq.
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/article_20591
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BUSH TEAM ON THE OFFENSE AGAINST DEMS
by Bill Sammon, The Examiner
On Monday, White House Counsel Fred Fielding not only asserted executive privilege to thwart congressional subpoenas, he also lectured Democratic lawmakers for daring to “direct” Bush to comply.
“We are aware of no authority by which a congressional committee may ‘direct’ the Executive,” Fielding wrote to top Democrats.
At the same time, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow accused Democrats of larding up the federal budget with tens of billions in irresponsible spending.
“Democrats are at it again,” Snow said. “The president won’t stand for that. He’ll veto any bill that doesn’t hold the line on spending.”
Bush himself took a swipe at Democratic profligacy in his weekly radio address Saturday.
“Democrats are failing in their responsibility to make tough decisions and spend the people’s money wisely,” Bush said. “They are working to bring back the failed tax-and-spend policies of the past.”
Last week, Snow accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., of “chutzpah” for criticizing Bush’s commutation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s perjury sentence. Snow and other White House officials cited Bill Clinton’s pardons of many controversial figures, including fugitive financier Marc Rich.
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said that since Democrats took over Congress six months ago, they have launched 300 investigations, conducted 600 oversight hearings and made 350 demands for documents and interviews of the administration — while only passing a half dozen major bills.
All this tough talk did not go unnoticed by conservative commentator Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard.
“This past week,” Barnes said on Fox News, “the president did get a little tougher.”
“Well, what do you attribute that to?” Fox host Brit Hume asked.
“Ed Gillespie,” said Mara Liasson of National Public Radio.
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.examiner.com/a-820106~Bush_team_on_the_offense_against_Dems.html
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YEAH, SURE I’LL GO TO IRAQ
By Mark Margolis
Every now and then we get comments like “Since you support Bush and his war, why don’t you go volunteer to fight in Iraq?” In other words, anyone who supports the war in Iraq should be fighting in it. So, let’s look at the logic here and apply it back to those people who are urging all supporters of the war in Iraq to fight in it. I wonder how many of them support the war in Afghanistan, and if they do, why don’t they volunteer to fight there. The simple answer is that liberals think that Republicans/conservatives should have to put their money where their mouths are, but they don’t. How many of these liberals who opposed the war from the beginning went over to Iraq to become Human Shields?
. . . Tell ya what, I’ll go to Iraq and fight after the following happens:
—When every single liberal who thinks global warming is a serious threat either gives up their car or drives a hybrid.
—When every single liberal who supports the war in Afghanistan volunteers to fight over there.
—When every single liberal who thinks perjurers should serve time demands that Bill Clinton share the same fate.
—When every single liberal who opposes tax cuts voluntarily gives the government a bigger cut of their paychecks
—When every single rich liberal who says the rich should pay their fair share of taxes takes their money out of foreign tax shelters.
—When every single liberal who attacks the rights of Americans to own guns give up their own.
—When every single liberal who claims they want to get rid of corruption give equal attention to corruption in the Democratic Party.
—When every single liberal who believes in gay marriage marries someone of the same gender, regardless of whether they’re homosexual or not.
—When every single liberal who said they’d leave the country if George W. Bush was elected (or reelected) actually leaves.
—When every single liberal blogger who supports the so-called Fairness Doctrine voluntarily presents both sides of an issue on their blog with no editorializing.
—When every single liberal who thinks affirmative action and quotas aren’t discriminatory voluntarily gives up their job or acceptance in their top choice school for a minority in the name of diversity.
You get the idea? If my support for the war in Iraq means I should go volunteer to fight over there, then every single liberal who supports any of the above things should be willing to lead by example and show their support for that issue in the manner in which I described.
I’ll volunteer to fight in Iraq when that happens.
UPDATE: I would also add that any liberal who calls Bush an idiot should apply to, get accepted into, and graduate from Yale and Harvard Business School. [DrDeb: I would add that they should also learn to fly a fighter jet with all of the life-threatening complexities of the F102!]
http://blogsforbush.com/
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RASMUSSEN
Rasmussen puts the President’s JA rating at 39% today — highest since May 13! . . . Of course, this means that Gallup/USAToday, Newsweek and all of the other MSM pollsters will work overtime to generate more BOGUS polling data that reinforces their current talking point: The President’s JA rating is below 30%!