10 Reasons Why Iraq’s Bloodbath Is Not W’s Fault
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 26th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
10 Reasons Why Iraq’s Bloodbath Is Not W’s Fault
Larry Elder, RealClearPolitics
1) In 2011, President Barack Obama pronounced Iraq “self-reliant and democratic,” and “a country in which people from different religious sects and ethnicities can resolve their differences peacefully through the democratic process.” In 2010, Vice President Joe Biden called Iraq “one of the great achievements of this administration.” Obama ignored pleas by top generals who advised against pulling out without leaving a residual force. 2) Nearly everybody assumed Saddam Hussein possessed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Of the newspaper editorials that opposed the war, not one…
Does Mary Burke Have What It Takes to Topple Scott Walker?
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
MARINETTE, Wis. — Mary Burke spends just about every waking hour these days focused on trying to become governor, but the Wisconsin Democrat admits to harboring a secondary goal as she campaigns around the state. The former business executive and state commerce secretary is running neck-and-neck with Republican Gov. Scott Walker. And if she is able to beat him in November, Burke could end the ambitious first-term governor’s likely 2016 presidential campaign before it even begins. “What we have seen here in the last 3½ years in Wisconsin under Scott Walker is the Tea Party…
GOP Poll, Not Its Policies, Gets Women’s Priorities Right
Stephanie Schriock, RealClearPolitics
Big news. Republicans now have their own poll to tell them exactly what the rest of us have known for years — women care about the economy. Their poll says what all polls say. Women want their government to focus on helping them get a fair shot for their families: economic opportunity, health care, education – basically, the Democratic platform. When Democrats talk about “the Republican war on women” — no matter how hard the GOP tries not to understand — we mean a substantive series of policies that roll back the clock and decrease economic opportunity for women and…
Keeping Up With the Clintons
Debra Saunders, RealClearPolitics
It’s time to pass the hat for Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state has tried to distance herself from her weeks-ago assertion that after husband Bill left the White House, the couple were “dead broke.” She told PBS that the line was “inartful,” but only after she told a British paper that she does not count herself among the “truly well-off.” Nobody knows the troubles she’s seen. In the United Kingdom pushing her latest book — for which she received a reported eight-figure advance — Clinton told The Guardian that the Clintons should not be seen as out-of-touch swells: “We pay…