A Veteran Republican Official Critisizes Bush Before a Stunned Audience

[louis c]

Stefan Halper, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under former President Ronald Reagan gave a blistering critique of current President George Bush's missteps in Iraq before an group of 150 conservatives.....

Halper, a veteran of the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan Administrations who is also a large contributor to the current President and other Republicans, stunned his audience with his critisism......

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040711/D83ORILG0.html

[Cha]

1. A lot of People are feeling buyer's

REMORSE!

[reprehensor]

2. Yay!

Republican Cannabalism, the latest spectator sport...

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Smarter Pubs are cutting their losses... trying to distance themselves

from the Delusion that is BushCo.

[Wind Dancer]

4. From the article:

"It's costing us a lot of money, isolating us from our allies and friends," said Halper, who gave $1,000 to George W. Bush's campaign and more than $83,000 to other GOP causes in 2000. "This is not the cakewalk the neoconservatives predicted. We were not greeted with flowers in the streets."

Conservatives, the backbone of Bush's political base, are increasingly uneasy about the Iraq conflict and the steady drumbeat of violence in postwar Iraq, Halper and some of his fellow Republicans say. The conservatives' anxiety was fueled by the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal and has not abated with the transfer of political power to the interim Iraqi government.

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"I don't think there's any question that there is growing restiveness in the Republican base about this war," said Halper, the co-author of a new book, "America Alone: The Neoconservatives and the Global Order."


I think the administration is desperate now with all of the new information coming out in mainstream media. Although, we know how much is being covered up, I fear this will cause the WH to "play the last card" in order to win the election. We need to be prepared for whatever that card is.

[OpSomBlood]

6. Conservatives are the "backbone" of Bush's political base?

I thought it was the haves and the have mores.

[mw]

5. But he's a Rep: No mention of DEATHS in war, only COSTS. Bastard. nt

[wyethwire]

7. isn't this a dupe posting?

[louis c]

8. I don't think so........

I posted it after it was up at myway.com for less than an hour.

I never saw it before.

Show the Dupe.