Senator Pat Leahy: We’ll become just like the Taliban, Saddam’s Iraq if detainee bill passes (SENATE VOTE: Yeas 65, Nays 34)
This, I suppose, is Leahy’s way of trying to look tough on terror.
Inscriptions on Arizona 9-11 Memorial to be reviewed
A bit of good news this morning:
If only he’d have had more time, part XXXXXXCMMMMMCVVV
How many times have we heard from Bubba that if only he’d had more time as president, he could have done something about the threat from North Korea, the threat from Al Qaeda, and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians? The woman who was his co-president during his time in the WH expressed such a sentiment yesterday with her response to the criticism her hubby has recieved in recent weeks over what he did and did not do about the growing terrorist threat from OBL:
The President was right: the NIE document was leaked for political purposes
Yesterday in his (rightly) angry answer to questions liberally biased reporter Jennifer Loven made regarding the leaked NIE report that supposedly said that the Iraq war made terrorism worse, the President Bush claimed that select contents of this document were released for political purposes, with it being just a little over a month before the 2006 elections. The Washington Post, whether it meant to or not, confirmed this in a story written today by Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus. From the story (emphasis added):
About that leaked NIE ‘report’
Malkin’s got all the details, including a report that the WH is considering completely declassifying the NIE report in order to set the record straight on the select details that were leaked to the press yesterday.