Good Friday morning Fellow Seekers,
In his address to the nation on Thursday evening, President Bush attempted to do something that even his own lawyers will not assert is within his power: To impose an indefinite commitment to his Iraq policy on his successor.
“Iraqi leaders from all communities… understand that their success will require U.S. political, economic, and security […]

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 […]