Huckabee Critiques Bush in Foreign Affairs Piece [Mod sez: the Huckster is going all Ron Paul on ya]

The Washington Post ^ | 12/14/2007 | Michael Abramowitz

[dano1]

GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is out with his most extensive discussion of foreign policy, and it includes one of the bluntest critiques of the Bush administration heard from the current crop of GOP candidates.

"American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out," the former Arkansas governor writes in the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad."

Huckabee also hammered the Bush administration for sending too few troops to Iraq to keep the peace after the invasion in 2003. "Unlike President George W. Bush, who marginalized General Eric Shinseki, the former army chief of staff, when he recommended sending several hundred thousand troops to Iraq, I would have met with Shinseki privately and carefully weighed his advice," he writes. "Our generals must be independent advisers, always free to speak without fear of retribution or dismissal."

Huckabee accuses the administration of being "distracted" by Iraq in failing to aggressively go after al-Qaeda in Pakistan. He said that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf agreed to sever his relationship with the Taliban and assist U.S. efforts to go after the terrorist group after the September 11 attacks, but he has gone "back on his word."

Huckabee says: "Iraq may be the hot war, but Pakistan is where the cold, calculating planning is going on. If al Qaeda strikes us tomorrow, the attack will be postmarked 'Pakistan.' And the American people, not understanding why a supposed U.S. ally refused to help and our government put up with it, will justifiably be outraged that bin Laden and his top people got away."

Huckabee has surprisingly sailed to the top of the polls in Iowa thanks to his close ties and affinity among Christian conservatives, ...

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[Mod sez: the Huckster is going all Ron Paul on ya]

Mod is RIGHT.

[libbylu]

The spam you post, i would like to zot it. Huckabuck,the republican jimmy carter, with more slickness than willie.

[Mr Rogers]

Don’t have a source, but Shinseki is close to the Dem Senator from Hawaii.

[NormsRevenge]

convenient huh? just make anything huck says front page news. what a strategy.

[roses of sharon]

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901faessay86501/rudolph-giuliani/toward-a-realistic-peace.html

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20071101faessay86602/john-mccain/an-enduring-peace-built-on-freedom.html

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86402/mitt-romney/rising-to-a-new-generation-of-global-challenges.html

Essays by RG, JM, and MR, at Foreign Affairs

[roses of sharon]

Ummm, on Nightline he said the President was just to mean to the enemy, and that we should let them out of Gitmo.

Weird.

[Tlaloc]

"The men and women of our Armed Forces have served and acted honorably in their duties at Guantanamo Bay and we greatly appreciate their service in keeping our nation free, safe and secure. I have visited Guantanamo Bay and know that the detainees are more than adequately cared for. My concern is that the facility has become a distraction from our Global War on Terror. Other facilities, like Fort Leavenworth, can serve the same purpose without the controversy." - Mike Huckabee on National Security and Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

"It's more symbolic than it is a substantive issue, because people perceive of mistreatment when, in fact, there are extraordinary means being taken to make sure these detainees are being given, really, every consideration. Most of our [Arkansas] prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo and less like the state prisons that people are in. ...There's not a perfect solution. The perfect solution is to get people to quit being terrorists. If we're going to make a mistake right now, let's make it on the side of protecting the American people." - Mike Huckabee On The Issues

[paudio]

I live in Hawaii, where he grew up. Not only he’s close with the Dims here (particularly with Sen. Dan Inouye), there’s a talk that he was considered to be the Dims’ candidate for governorship against the Republican incumbent Linda Lingle in 2006. He declined, but I think mostly because Lingle is a very popular governor in this blue State.

[roses of sharon]

Precisely, he does not like Gitmo, and believes it makes people hate us, so he wants them out, he has said this many, many times.

Obviously there is a reason the military wants them held at Gitmo and not Leavennworth right now.

Sorry, a wartime President Huck is not. So be it, if primary voters want a kinder gentler CIC, and no more icky war, then they will have it.

If he is nominated I hope the President and VP will decide to bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, ASAP.

[Tlaloc]

If the Supreme Court can tell President Bush that Gitmo detainees are protected by the Geneva convention, then what is the point of keeping them there?

[org.whodat]

GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is out with his most extensive discussion of foreign policy

ROFLOL, foreign policy to the huckster is yelling at someone across the Mississippi river.

[dennisw]

Your Huckster should be running in the Democrat primary. This guy isn’t even a RINO. He’s a Democrat. His Evangelical beliefs obscure this fact!

[RebekahT]

ROFLOL, foreign policy to the huckster is yelling at someone across the Mississippi river.
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I really laughed out loud when I read that!!!

[shield]

hehehehe...p*ss Bush’s base off...and you’ve cooked your goose...

[CASchack]

We have a spambot here: The Huckabot.

Don’t worry, though-—tThe Huckster will be old news in a couple of months.

[silent_jonny]

Please, American voters, just say NO to Huckabee!

Amen!

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

Huckabee, the Bill Clinton of the Republican Party. And by that I am referring to his ethical lapses and his lack of backbone (doing what the polls say he should do).

[elizabetty]

Thank you for making that reply, you saved me from having to call somebody an idiot.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Retire the liberal tax raising, open border, algore loving, nanny state Huckster Ping

To be added please FReepmail me or OB1KNOB.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Dear Mr. Lead Moderator:

dano1 is not a real person. It is a screen name used by a few Huck people who post here around the clock. The spam machine needs a repairman. It doesn't know when an article is favorable or unfavorable to huck.