wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/28/2008
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Robert Kagan, a leading member of John McCain’s war cabinet , recently gave an interview to Der Spiegel in which he was asked about the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq :
SPIEGEL: Isn’t it true that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld took advantage of the outrage over ...
townhall.com - 10/27/2008
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townhall.com —
When Josh Mandel got a call from the
Marines last year asking him to return voluntarily to
Iraq, he had much more to contemplate than when he first enlisted in 2000. He had just been elected to the Ohio state legislature. Family considerations were ...
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Joel Mowbray : Iraq War vet’s service attacked in ...
strategypage.com - 10/27/2008
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strategypage.com —
October 27, 2008: The war is over. Most
of the noise these days is from politicians arguing,
not bombs going off. There are still bombs, but now they tend to be assassination attempts, as some political parties play dirty (not unknown in this part of ...
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Iraq: The Letter
projects.publicintegrity.org - 10/28/2008
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projects.publicintegrity.org —
On August 26, 2002, in an address to
the national convention of the Veteran of Foreign Wars,
Cheney flatly declared: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to ...
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Iraq: The War Card
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Rober Kagan on Iraq
democracyarsenal.org —
Matt Duss breaks down a pretty absurd interview that Robert Kagan did with Der Spiegel.
Bob Kagan On Iraq
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The uber-neocon now agrees with Hans Brix: In retrospect, we have to admit that Washington could have waited a while longer. ...
McCain adviser dismisses evidence of Bush’s Iraq lies as ‘conspiracy theories.’
Think Progress —
... Matt Duss at the Wonk Room writes, “We can ‘move beyond this silly conversation’ when people like Robert Kagan cease pretending that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, et al were arguing in good faith about the need to invade Iraq, and stop dismissing the overwhelming evidence of their dishonesty as ‘conspiracy theories.’” ...
Robert Kagan on Bribing Sunni Fighters: It Worked, Didn’t It?
Comments from Left Field —
... Matt Duss at Think Progress highlights a different part of the interview, in which the Spiegel interviewer asks Kagan about the lead-up to the war. Duss quotes this section (emphasis is Duss’s): ...
Lies, Dripping Off Your Mouth Like Dirt
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Apparently pointing out the indisputable fact that the Bush administration lied in the run-up to the Iraq war is now, according to one of the Kagans who pass for a Republican foreign policy intelligentsia, a "conspiracy theory." Of course. if Kagan knew anything about anything ...
Yes, Virginia, Politicians Lie
Matthew Yglesias —
... It seems that Robert Kagan would like us to believe that it’s some kind of “conspiracy theory” to think that the Bush administration told some fibs when trying to sell the country on the merits of invading Iraq. Kagan proposes and Matt Duss disposes. I would add to what Duss says that if you think back to 2002 and early 2003 it was commonplace for supporters of the war to observe that Bush wasn’t making the “right case” or the “real case” for the war. It was always, in other words, understood among readers of ...
A Man With Very Little Skill and Knowledge
Obsidian Wings —
... Chalabi’s biggest boosters.
Like Ricks, I’d be very interested to hear more about the “implicit agreement” that Chalabi asserts between the U.S. and Iran. Given what’s known now about Chalabi’s cooperation with Iran’s intelligence services, though, it’s pretty chilling to consider how close some of Chalabi’s marks came to taking the White House last November. Unfortunately, as shown by the continuing prominence of McCain, Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and other neocon fantasists, inadvertently aiding America’s enemies is no ...
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