As I see people compiling lists of things Pres. Bush and VP Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted in 2003 — I’m noticing recurrent choices of words and phrases that may signal that they were deliberately […]

Good Monday noon, Fellow Seekers,
The Norm Coleman reelection campaign this morning unveiled a web video designed to portray Al Franken’s position on Iraq over the years as a mess of contradictions. You can view the video here.
At first glance, it has a strong impact. Of course, it is a series of statements taken out of […]

Good Thursday noon,
At midnight last night, Team Romney put out a press release, headlined: WHAT THEY’RE REALLY SAYING ABOUT GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY AT THE DURHAM, NH GOP DEBATE  (it doesn’t seem to be available online yet, I’ll link to it later if it shows up).
It claims, not only that Romney won last night’s GOP debate (I don’t […]

In Australia, yesterday, President Bush reflected again on Iraq. He reiterated that the war is an ideological struggle, that Iraq and Afghanistan are two fronts in the war, that the goal is to create new democracies that can be allies of the U.S. in the war, that the U.S. can succeed, and that it will […]

I was vacationing last week, when President Bush gave his  Aug. 22 speech to the VFW national convention, which is mostly known for Bush’s surprising decision to invoke the Vietnam analogy in explaining what’s going on in Iraq. Enough has been written about the holes in Bush’s use of that analogy.
In reading the full text of the […]

A new 30-second TV spot pressuring Sen. Norm Coleman to come out against the continuation of the Iraq war hits Minnesota air today and was released for preview at a 1 p.m. news conference. There’s a link below so you can check it out yourself.
The ad, by Americans United for Change, doesn’t contain any surprising […]