On This Date in Bush History 12/7: “foreign-handed foreign policy”

“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.” Presidential candidate Bush, speaking September 27th 2000 in Redwood, California

2005: In a speech dubbed “Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You Some Lies” by Arianna Huffington, President Bush speaks before the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. While asking questions is a tradition at the Council, President Bush declined questions. In 2003 President Bush said “Today, in Iraq, there’s discussion, debate, protest, all the hallmarks of liberty”. Today, at the Council on Foreign Relations, given the opportunity to engage in discussion and debate, ‘the hallmarks of liberty’, the president declined.

2006: Republican Senator Gordon Smith (OR) said of the Iraq war today, “I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal”. Fortunately, after years of mismanagement that cost many lives, the situation showed signs of improvement in 2007.

2006: Seattle’s federal prosecutor, John McKay, was ordered to resign today by the Bush / Gonzales Justice Dept. Robert Lasnik, the chief federal judge for western Washington state said, “This is unanimous among the judges: John McKay was a superb U.S. attorney; for the Justice Department to suggest otherwise is just not fair”. McKay said no reason was given to him for his dismissal, though he had been told of administration dissatisfaction in his not using his position to go after Democrats aggressively enough in an election year.

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