August 24, 2007
Bill Moyers Clip File
BILL MOYERS: We’re launching a new feature on THE JOURNAL this week. We call it our clip file — stories we collect that may have fallen through the cracks or disappeared under the avalanche of information that falls on all of us every day. We begin with the war in [...]
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August 8, 2007
The Bush administration as well as supporters and some critics of the Bush Iraq strategy have told Americans time and again during the past four years that the “next few months” in Iraq will be the “decisive, critical period” of the war—the [...]
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“A new national intelligence estimate concludes that President Bush’s troop surge shows no signs of accomplishing its goal of encouraging political reconciliation in Iraq.”
“And now it appears that the only thing the surge has bought him is time — nine months or maybe a year, during which he was able to postpone the inevitable.”
“What has [...]
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Sixteen years on Face The Nation has taught me one thing: When I ask a question and guests start laying out conditions such as “first let me tell you,” or “the real questions is,” or “it is important to put that in context,” I know we’re headed down the old rabbit trail that will take [...]
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