The Flashlight, Sept. 8-14, 2007
THE FLASHLIGHT, September 8-14, 2007
Iraq
NBC 9-9. Senator Biden said that security gains in Iraq had no impact on sectarian violence or political reconciliation. Iraq should be divided into three parts: a unity government is impossible. But he said that cutting off further funding for the Iraq War would not stop it, because it has already been fully funded until the end of Bush’s term. To end the war would require 67 votes in the Senate.
CNN 9-9. David Gergen criticized Ambassador Ryan Crocker for failing to acknowledge the failure of the Maliki government to meet the benchmarks set by Congress.
PBS 9-10. Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D. Calif.) said that you cannot win an occupation. There is still no political solution in Iraq.
CNN 9-10. Michael Ware on the ground in Iraq said that Iran is now the focus of US efforts, rather than al-Qaida.
CNN 9-13. Sen. Jack Reed, Democratic spokesman responding to the latest speech of Pres. Bush, said that 1) the mission in Iraq must scaled down 2) Since no political solution has been found, the troops must be brought home. The President’s speech was relentlessly optimistic.
NYTimes 9-14. Editorial. Bush refuses to admit failure, envisions unlimited commitment of US forces in Iraq.
Paul Krugman. Smart money knows that Iraq is going to split up and will not survive as a nation. A friend of Bush, Ray Hunt, oilman from Dallas, has signed a contract with the Kurds. Krugman thinks that Bush realizes that the surge has failed and the war is lost, yet he is trying to cover it up, minimizing failures, exaggerating minor successes. moving goalposts, He seems to be planning to turn the war over to the Democrats in 2009, forcing them to end it and take the blame for the failure. Republicans will then say that the Democrats stabbed the nation in the back.
US News
CNN 9-7. The epidemic which is wiping out a high proportion of US honeybees is now thought to be caused by a virus contracted from Australian honeybees.
NYTimes 9-8. The mortgage crisis has begun to infect the whole US economy. Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, promised to propose “the mother of all tax reforms.”
CNN. 9-8. Chuck Hagel (R) announced he will not run again for the Senate or run for President in 2008. He is the third Republican to resign in the last three weeks.
CNN 9-12. Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia, announced he will run for the Senate seat to be vacated by John Warner (R) in 2008.
Iraq
NBC 9-9. Senator Biden said that security gains in Iraq had no impact on sectarian violence or political reconciliation. Iraq should be divided into three parts: a unity government is impossible. But he said that cutting off further funding for the Iraq War would not stop it, because it has already been fully funded until the end of Bush’s term. To end the war would require 67 votes in the Senate.
CNN 9-9. David Gergen criticized Ambassador Ryan Crocker for failing to acknowledge the failure of the Maliki government to meet the benchmarks set by Congress.
PBS 9-10. Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D. Calif.) said that you cannot win an occupation. There is still no political solution in Iraq.
CNN 9-10. Michael Ware on the ground in Iraq said that Iran is now the focus of US efforts, rather than al-Qaida.
CNN 9-13. Sen. Jack Reed, Democratic spokesman responding to the latest speech of Pres. Bush, said that 1) the mission in Iraq must scaled down 2) Since no political solution has been found, the troops must be brought home. The President’s speech was relentlessly optimistic.
NYTimes 9-14. Editorial. Bush refuses to admit failure, envisions unlimited commitment of US forces in Iraq.
Paul Krugman. Smart money knows that Iraq is going to split up and will not survive as a nation. A friend of Bush, Ray Hunt, oilman from Dallas, has signed a contract with the Kurds. Krugman thinks that Bush realizes that the surge has failed and the war is lost, yet he is trying to cover it up, minimizing failures, exaggerating minor successes. moving goalposts, He seems to be planning to turn the war over to the Democrats in 2009, forcing them to end it and take the blame for the failure. Republicans will then say that the Democrats stabbed the nation in the back.
US News
CNN 9-7. The epidemic which is wiping out a high proportion of US honeybees is now thought to be caused by a virus contracted from Australian honeybees.
NYTimes 9-8. The mortgage crisis has begun to infect the whole US economy. Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, promised to propose “the mother of all tax reforms.”
CNN. 9-8. Chuck Hagel (R) announced he will not run again for the Senate or run for President in 2008. He is the third Republican to resign in the last three weeks.
CNN 9-12. Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia, announced he will run for the Senate seat to be vacated by John Warner (R) in 2008.
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