Conservative Reservations

[Pure]

No, not places of retirement for aging right-wingers, but public expressions of concern from those who, in most cases, have supported the president's Iraq war.

List from salon.com.


GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel: "I think you've got a president who is not schooled, educated, experienced in foreign policy in any way, versus his father."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040531/usnews/31hagel.htm

GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee: "The president talked about being humble when he was running for office but the opposite seems to be true."

GOP Sen. Pat Roberts: "In fighting the global war against terrorism,' we need to restrain what are growing U.S. messianic instincts -- a sort of global social engineering where the United States feels it is both entitled and obligated to promote democracy -- by force, if necessary."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak13.html
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GOP Sen. Richard Lugar: "I am very hopeful that the president and his administration will articulate precisely what is going to happen as much as they can, day by day, as opposed to a generalization."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/148886-5142-009.html
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Conservative writer and novelist Mark Helprin: "The war has been run incompetently, with an apparently deliberate contempt for history, strategy and thought, and with too little regard for the American soldier, [....]."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/mhelprin/?id=110005090
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Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol: "Well, that's right, [Bush] did drive us into a ditch."

CNN's bow-tied conservative Tucker Carlson: "I supported the war and now I feel foolish."

Former House GOP Leader Dick Armey: "We're letting the political hacks overrule the policy wonks in this town."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/24/armey/index.html
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Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan: "It's long past time that people can be asked simply to trust the president. After the WMD intelligence debacle and the Abu Ghraib disgrace, he has run out of that capital. [...]I'm not sure any more that this president has the skills or competence to pull it off. But I am sure that he has very little time to persuade us he can."

American Conservative Union vice chairman Donald Devine, who refused to join a standing ovation for President Bush at the ACU banquet last week[....]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak20.html
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Novak, above, voicing concerns.


Conservative columnist George F. Will: "This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64323-2004May3.html

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[Guest]

Give George a break.

He can't even ride a bicycle.

 

[Pure]

I know, but his handlers and cronies can't all claim the idiocy defense.

Anyone see the recent bio (article) of Perle, in Wash P., I believe; not only has he gotten power, but millions is business deals. He goes back to the grandaddy of us all, RR.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I can't believe that the papers aren't screaming bloody murder about that piss-poor "Five Points" speech last night. He said absolutely nothing new. Except for trying to get other nations involved, these are the same goals we had a year ago. Just listing them as bullet points doesn't bring them any closer or tell us how we're going to accomplish them.

I really expected something more detailed and carefully thought-out. It seems now that last night's speech was strictly a political performance to calm the electorate. He still has no idea of what to do or how to do it.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

I can't believe that the papers aren't screaming bloody murder about that piss-poor "Five Points" speech last night.

The media needs money from advertisement and stuff.

 

[Pure]

Pretty pathetic, indeed. *Very confused about 'terrorism' and its alleged 'bases.'

The only idea present is 'stay the course' or 'don't cut and run.'
A summation of present policy.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Pretty pathetic, indeed. *Very confused about 'terrorism' and its alleged 'bases.'...

Searching for substance in a G. W. Bush speech is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauley Shore movie.

With apologies for paraphrasing Cher, in 'Clueless.'