I should have known it was too good to be true. That twinge of optimism I felt after President Bush’s speech yesterday was dashed within an hour. It seems his idea of “temporary” (as in “temporary worker”) is up to six years. No, no, Mr. President. Temporary should be more like two or three months, … Continue reading Bush’s ‘temp’ could stay 6 years
President George Bush just completed a speech on immigration, and he finally managed to say something convincing and worthwhile. In fact, he said a lot of things convincingly: he’ll stop illegal immigration; build physical barriers where needed; implement rapid deportation of all illegals we catch; not grant amnesty to illegal immigrants; require immigrants to abide … Continue reading Hallelujah, Mr. Bush
PBS’s Frontline documentary “The Torture Question” last night explored at length the U.S. policy on the abuse and torture of prisoners. No amount of euphemism (e.g: “coercive interrogation,” “enemy combatant,” “detainee”) or protestation by our government officials can convince me that we, the United States, should be engaging in such activities. What we saw at … Continue reading Torture by any name…
President Bush yesterday accused critics of the Iraq war of trying to “rewrite history.” Oh puh-LEEZ! Mr. Bush is overstating a bit, and this time he’s sounding more than a little defensive. Perhaps we should cut him some slack and allow that he simply misused the language, as he is wont to do. But that … Continue reading Bush feeling the heat
Democrats today invoked Rule 21 to close the U.S. Senate. What a brilliant move! I’ll not even try to hide my glee. I’ve thought since before we went into Iraq that the Administration was, if not outright lying, at least distorting the truth about why we needed to invade. As for any retrospective Congressional investigation … Continue reading Democrats close Senate
Okay, we’ve invaded Iraq, captured Saddam Hussein, determined the nonexistence of WMDs, and overseen the writing and subsequent public approval of a new constitution. Now we simply declare victory and leave. Continue reading We can leave now
