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The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Review

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

Sunday, February 12, 2005
This was an odd week. Joe Biden declared on MTP that the Iraqi insurgency has "nothing to do with terrorists." Host Tim Russert conceded, in a question to Biden, that Saddam did in fact possess WMD. He asked Biden if he would have voted for the war if he knew at the time that "there were not significant levels of weapons of mass destruction."
Biden also quipped that as the Administration talks of drawing down troops in Iraq, the only difference between their plan and Jack Murtha's is "the timing."
On TW, Russ Feingold said he was going to introduce a measure tomorrow to censure the President for "thumbing his nose about the American people" in regards to the NSA terrorist surveillance program. Bill Frist came on next and accused Russ of attacking the President instead of al Qaeda.
On FNS, Dunc Hunter and Mike Pence were all over the DP World Ports Deal, but they defended the President as the victim off being poorly served by his advisors. Dunc bragged that he had investigated the ports deal for the President. Also on FNS, Chris Dodd promised that the Dem agenda was coming out in fits and starts.
On FTN, Barack Obama said basically that the Democrats had to do a better job of dumbing-down their message so that the American people would understand it. Later, host Bob Schieffer asked Mike Huckabee if General Pete Pace had been lying last week when he told Russert that things were going "very, very well" in Iraq. (AcademicElephant treated this line last week.)
On LE, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad had just emerged from a meeting with Iraq's leaders about getting serious, resolving their issues, and forming a government. This could be the best news we've heard yet this year. Later, Jack Kemp demanded a "date certain" for withdrawal from Iraq.
Read on…

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