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  • A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos): 6.29.05

    06/29/2005 3:13:28 PM PDT · by GretchenM · 271 replies · 3,052+ views
    yahoo.com, whitehouse.gov, foxnews.com ^ | Wednesday June 29, 2005 | GretchenM
    President Bush approved 70 of 74 of the WMD Commission recommendations for improving national security, with at least one still under review. India's Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee met with VP Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in Washington. Scott McClellan's press briefing link. Welcome to Sanity Island!
  • WMD Redux: Intelligence is worthless unless policy makers act on it.

    03/31/2005 9:17:31 PM PST · by quidnunc · 1 replies · 229+ views
    The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | April 1, 2005 | Fred C. Ikle
    But I'd shut my eyes in the sentry box,So I didn't see nothin' wrong. – Rudyard Kipling      The report published yesterday by the WMD Commission will delight all policy wonks who have a collector's passion for intelligence failures. Equipped with a rearward-looking telescope called hindsight, hunting down other people's mistakes is a fun sport — enjoyed by policy wonks as well as the media. But prudence suggests we should also have a forward-looking telescope to warn us of policy failures on the road ahead. Congress, unfortunately, has a knack for noisily debating past intelligence failures, the better to distract the...