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William O'Rourke

Sunday, June 6, 2004

Kerry can let Bush's bad news speak for itself

The wheels haven't entirely fallen off the Bush administration, although there are signs indicating they might: CIA head George Tenet resigning, President Bush looking for a private lawyer. Luckily, Bush has had the solace of Memorial Day observances and D-Day ceremonies, which have let him appear serious and somber, rather than worried and harried.

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Iraq, Vietnam wars waged by different segments of society

On this Memorial Day weekend -- and those to come -- it is not the similarities between the Iraq and Vietnam wars that may turn out to be critical, it is the differences. A likely important one is the answer to the question, Who dies?

Sunday, May 23, 2004

Kerry's got to show -- and tell -- his solution

President Bush has been accused often of overseeing a jobless economic recovery. And, of late, John Kerry hasn't had much of an anticipated recovery in the polls, given all the bad news from Iraq the Bush administration has had to absorb.

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Nothing gets these guys down

Poor Gen. Taguba. At last Tuesday's Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing, the military's straight-shooter was chaperoned by two flak catchers for the administration, their presence meant to keep him on a short leash. The most egregious flack, the one not wearing a uniform, Stephen Cambone, an undersecretary of defense, claimed Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's damning Abu Ghraib prison report wasn't in all ways accurate. But Cambone's chief purpose was to speak first and pronounce his bosses, President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, blameless for any of the bad apple reservists' misdeeds.

Sunday, May 9, 2004

U.S. officials refuse to take responsibility

The most recent photographs heard 'round the world, those from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, are certainly disturbing, but they are equally illuminating of our experience in that beleaguered country.

William O'Rourke
William O'Rourke


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