Permanent bases in Iraq? Something else for history to decide.

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 9:03 AM PST

2008/02/18 · 09:03

Let's talk Iraq for a moment.

As you know and I know and everyone knows, the Bush administration is building permanent bases in Iraq. Funny how it wasn't that long ago we were hearing about "standing down when the Iraqis stand up" and "staying long enough to complete the mission and not any longer." Depending on who you talk to (not Mr. Hundred Years War McBush, of course), that is still the plan (even if we are going to have to pause those troop "drawdowns" for a while). But what about those bases? Apparently, the time has come for the Bush administration to admit to reality, and to what they know we know they know we know. Just don't call them permanent, please.

How did we get there? And why doesn't anyone care anymore? Well, we have seen this dance before...

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Saturday April 28, 2007 · 9:55 AM PDT

2007/04/28 · 09:55

So, I am down in Florida on vacation, sitting on the beach in Siesta Key, watching the little guy play in the sand. The sun is great, the pelicans are fishing, and I've just heard from the guy next to me that the Sox beat up on the Yanks again last night, so I am feeling pretty good when one of those advertising planes fly by...

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Wednesday March 14, 2007 · 10:53 AM PDT

2007/03/14 · 10:53

The press is off and running with mockery of Gonzales's "mistakes were made" speech. They're making the obvious Nixon connection. That is never a good sign.

Unfortunately, the New York Times cannot resist the "Clinton did it too" argument:

It is a construction that other officials, from Richard M. Nixon’s press secretary to Ronald Reagan to John H. Sununu and Bill Clinton, have used when someone’s hand was caught in the federal cookie jar.

But Dana Milbank in the Washington post gets it exactly right. Follow the link for concise, unforgiving and devastating analysis of Gonzales's "accountability moment." He feels no need to soften the article by even nodding at the "everybody does it" approach:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced the cameras for all of nine minutes yesterday, but he managed to contradict himself at least four times as he fought off calls to resign over the firing of U.S. attorneys.

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