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Tuesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
TUESDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * George Stephanopoulos reports , "McCain holds key to administration's bailout passage." * Even House Republicans aren't listening to Cheney anymore. * Reports out of Afghanistan remain " grim ." * Limbaugh just can't help himself . * It'll be tougher for the right to blame Dems and minority families for the mortgage crisis given Rick Davis' role in praising minority homeownership. * And it'll be even tougher still given the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign's position on the same issue. ...
Bush administration has ‘no plans’ to declassify ‘grim’ Afghanistan NIE before the election.
Think Progress —
... ABC News reports that the Bush administration has “no plans to declassify” the forthcoming National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan before the election: ...
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Newshoggers.com —
By Ron Beasley
ABC reports that the latest NIE on Afghanistan reports that things in Afghanistan are "grim". US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as "grim", but there are "no plans to ...
Afghanistan is a very different war
QandO —
One of the more serious mistakes one can make when considering the war in Afghanistan is to think it is just like the war in Iraq and can be prosecuted the same way. That’s not to say more troops wouldn’t help the situation. They would. That’s not where the two wars are different. Nor are some of the counter-insurgency goals, such as protection of the population, not common goals between the two conflicts. It has to do more with the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan and the characteristics of that country vs. Iraq. Here’s a good start at listing those ...
Bin Laden's goals are closer to being achieved
Newshoggers.com —
By Fester:
Bin Laden and the senior leadership of Al-Queada had a specific scenario in mind when they approved the 9-11 attacks. They believed that the United States would invade Afghanistan, and become embroiled in a long-standing guerrilla war. That war would lead to imperial overstretch and force a retrenchment of ...
Bush administration has ?no plans? to declassify ?grim? Afghanistan NIE before the election.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... ABC News reports that the Bush administration has “no plans to declassify” the forthcoming National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan before the election: U.S. intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as “grim”, but there are “no plans to declassify” any of it […] ABC News reports that the Bush administration has “ no plans to declassify ” the forthcoming National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan before the election: U.S. intelligence analysts are putting ...
Politics stops at the border, right?
The Reaction —
By Carl Then explain this: US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as "grim", but there are "no plans to ...
Victory in the War on Terror!
Booman Tribune —
We interrupt this looming economic catastrophe to remind our readers of just how well things are going in the war on terror. For example, in the central front in the war, there's this loverly bit of news ...
Grim
Belmont Club —
Afghanistan is now officially the bad war. ABC News reports that the situation in Afghanistan is”grim”. The assessment may be correct but the thing to watch for is what actions the pre-leaked NIE findings will be used to justify. It’s a safe bet the still to be completed NIE will have as many political uses as strategic ones, but maybe politics and strategy are all the same thing.“US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as ‘grim’, but there are ‘no plans to declassify’ any of it before the election, according to one US ...
Memo Leak Says Mission In Afghanistan Doomed
Newshoggers.com —
By Cernig
I'd recently begun to think there was no way back from seven years of Bush administration mismanagement in Afghanistan - but it's still shocking to hear it from the British ambassador in Kabul.
The London Times reports that Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles told his French counterparts exactly that at a ...
Memo Leak Says Mission In Afghanistan Doomed
At-Largely —
Posted By Cernig
I'd recently begun to think there was no way back from seven years of Bush administration mismanagement in Afghanistan - but it's still shocking to hear it from the British ambassador in Kabul.
The London Times reports that Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles told his French counterparts exactly that at a high-level meeting, however, and that the secret memo of the meeting has now been leaked to the French press (h/t Newshoggers' tireless researcher Kat). Le Canard Enchaîné, a "respected French weekly" reproduced the memo. “The current situation is bad. The security situation is ...
