Posted on 03/25/2010 3:08:38 PM PDT by freespirited
Thanks..hehe!
Frum doesn’t understand that in the end Obamacare will be a Victory for conservatism. Once it kicks in fully, in 2014, the populace will understand what harm the liberal/socialist Obama administration has done to America. That will end liberalism in America forever.
He’s a free wheeler, it’s where he gets the most notice and most money, plus a few strokes one his little greasy head.
It’s not that Frum isn’t American (he’s Canadian), it’s simply that he’s not a conservative.
I commend AEI for finally getting rid of him.
Let’s do the same to John McCain..!
Because they kept him on the payroll for 7 years I will never give these beta-males a dollar. There’s many on the payroll as bad as frum. Just think about this, frum and several of his AEI colleagues sat down with leftist Bush-hating Vanity Fair Magazine in December 2005 to castigate, smear and belittle President Bush, while troops were on the ground in the two war theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan. And then AEI continued to pay frum and the other traitors for 2006, 2007, 2008 2009 and the first 3 months of 2010. How does that make you financial supporters of AEI feel? When they endorse romney, remember that.
Gergen was worthless when he worked for Reagan.
“Three days after calling health-care reform a debacle for the Republicans, David Frum was forced out of his job at the American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday.”
...and the crowd goes wild!
Wasn’t he suppose to be Pravda’s choice when it came to expert opinion on behalf of conservatives?
I can think of a few others that need to join him.
I wasn’t aware that it was Frum who was giving such failed advice to GWB.
AEI has some token liberals. I have never understood why.
Mmmmmmmm.......thanx.......nice- to-know-Frum-is-not-going-to-miss-a-meal----snix
BTW, did you know there's a reward out...... for anyone who can determine what Frum-and-the-pukeneos actually do for a living? With a bonus if you find out who signs their paychecks. Other than infiltrating the US government, putting out agit-prop, and incessantly pontificating on foreign policy issues, no one has yet figured out if the pukeneo buddies have any visible means of support.
Frum opined recently about "the collapse of conservatism as an organized political force, and the rise of conservatism as an alienated cultural sensibility.” Frum also counseled Republicans to embrace "a future that is less overtly religious, and less polarizing on social issues," a move that will involve painful change" on such issues as abortion.
"We hear and obey, Frum" (bows deeply making a Bronx cheer).
During a-1968-interview on 60 Minutes with former Pentagon official and Iraq war architect Frum-buddy----Neo-Con-Douglas Feith......CBS correspondent Steve Kroft noted two key elements that led to the rise of the Iraqi insurgency shortly after the U.S. took control in April 2003: not having enough troops to stop the widespread looting and the decision to disband the Iraqi Army.
But instead of taking any responsibility, Feith quickly passed the buck, just as he has done in his latest book. He suggested that if only his plan for Iraq had been put in place after the invasion, none of the chaos that ensued would have taken place:
FEITH: We developed plans to try to give meaning to the concept of liberation rather than occupation, and one of — one of my great regrets is that the United States wound up setting up an occupation government in Iraq for 14 months, which I think was a — was a serious mistake. Kroft then noted that Gen. Tommy Franks once referred to Feith as “the dumbest guy on the planet” and former CIA Director George Tenet called Feith’s intelligence evaluations “total crap.”
Feith replied: “I don’t think its a great thing” to “use harsh language.”
Feith must only think its not “a great thing” to “use harsh language” when others are directing it towards him because he said recently that only “a--holes” are concerned with how the use of torture reflects on America’s “moral authority.”
But more broadly, Feith is the latest in a long list of war supporters to deflect blame for the failures in Iraq from either themselves or the Bush administration.
Indeed, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and AEI war hawk Danielle Pletka recently blamed the Iraqis for the continued violence in Iraq. Some other lowlights:
– Like Feith, fellow war architect Neo-Con-guru-Richard Perle blamed the war’s failures on the decision to not “turn Iraq over to Iraqis” after the fall of Baghdad. –
– “Surge” brainchild Fred Kagan said that he “supported the 2003 invasion despite misgivings about how it would be executed, and those misgivings proved accurate.”
Former Iraq occupation governor L. Paul Bremer recently responded to the criticism from Feith and Perle that Iraq wasn’t handed over to the Iraqis soon enough saying: “It sounds like the architects are running away from their building here.”
Watch it: VIDEO.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/07/feith-blame-iraq/
Crooks and Liars has more on Feith's 60 Minutes interview.
To-neocons----treason isn't the problem--–United States-government officials talking about it is.
Think of that famous photo of Lynndie England holding a leash connected to some poor Iraqi slob writhing naked on the floor, and you have a pretty good idea of Bush's relationship with neocons – neocons-hold the leash. The order went down from the White House for prosecutor Paul McNulty to slow down the Franklin-AIPAC-treachery-investigation and rein in FBI field agents ---- as reported by the Financial Times.........neocons were-frantic to limit the damage--to-dupe-Bush-over-and-over-again.
One-begins to wonder who-Neocons work for. Frum-buddy----Neocon-Douglas Feith----- is no stranger to intelligence scandals. In 1982 he left the National Security Council under the shadow of an FBI investigation---suspected of passing intelligence information to Israel. During the Bush II administration, investigative reports by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker focused public attention on the Office of Special Plans that came under Feith’s supervision.
Feith’s office not only housed the Office of Special Plans and other special intelligence operations associated with the Near East and South Asia (NESA) office and the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs but also the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone, who directed military policy on interrogations of the Guantanamo Bay detainees and then arranged for the transfer of the base’s commanding officer, Maj. General Geoffrey Miller, to the Abu Ghraib prison in an effort to extract more information from Iraqi prisoners.
Feith declared, on 60 Minutes, that the “weapons of mass destruction” were never the real reason for the invasion of Iraq, but it was purely a “preventative” war because Saddam had weapons programs or the knowledge to build/continue weapons programs. By this reasoning, the logical outcome is that attacking any other country with any level of information of knowledge of weapons programs is fair game.
While he didn’t say that, the precedent is applicable, that is, is would also be “fair game” to attack even our current allies. England, France, Pakistan, Israel and so on. Indeed, they all have this same knowledge and ability.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda---By Dr Stephen J. Sniegoski
Pre-publication rank: Amazon's top 100 for 21st-century U.S. history books.
This work examines a controversial, and in some respects, taboo subject: the role of the neoconservatives as the fundamental driving force in the Bush administration’s war on Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent militant American policy in the Middle East, and the close relationship of these neocons’ with the Israeli Likudnik right.
It marshals evidence to illustrate that this foreign-policy blunder – of colossal proportions, from the perspective of the American national interest – stems from the fact that the policy, pushed by the neoconservatives, was created to serve the interests of a foreign country. Such a thesis does not mean that the neoconservatives intentionally sought to aid Israel at the expense of the United States, but rather that they see American foreign policy through the lens of Israeli interests.
While not focused on the neoconservative movement per se, The Transparent Cabal reviews the background of the neoconservatives – their network and agenda – as it relates to the aforementioned foreign-policy theme. What characterizes neoconservatives is not only their but also their personal interconnectedness in terms of organizations, publications, schooling, and even blood.
Of crucial importance is how the neocons, over the years, identified closely with the interests of Israel, and how their Middle East agenda paralleled that of the Israeli Likudnik right. In fact, much of the neocon approach to the Middle East can be seen to have originated in Likudnik thinking. And the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon worked in tandem with the neocons in supporting both the war on Iraq and the U.S.’s later militant policies toward Iran and Syria.
"Doug, if I want to hear from the Israelis I'll call their embassy."
Feith was shortly thereafter barred from attending any further meetings. (demoted iirc)
And speaking of 'Bars', he should be behind some!
O-o-o-o-o-o-o-------betcha-neos-made-Bush-pay-for-that.
David Bum is not a Republican. He’s the media’s favorite covert Democrat.
Thank God...finally.
Frum doesn’t fit in with Pat or Steyn.
He has always been NeoCon-liteweight
If that is true what the hell do you call Obama? Its your form of stupidity that has led to the election of Obama
Yes GW is a Republican and no he is not a socialist and yes you folks were not around when the discernment genes were passed out
Bush being a socialist doesn't change the fact that Obama is a communist. Until Sunday, President Bush presided over the largest expansion in federal power since the great society, namely the prescription drug plan. Then, he advocated the socialist bailouts that set the table for Obama's actions vis-a-vis the automakers.
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