of the war as something of a wise man, right? he s saw through it, i mean, the moment where he writes down the mark on the calendar and says colin powell says we re going to find a wmd, go to the paper. i m sorry, but there was a failure on the part of those folks to do the right thing. it s very easy for me to say that, i understand, but it s still wrong. blame colin powell for believing that and still giving that speech. now he s seen as a wise man, and the president courts him, you know, networks court him, and we pay a lot of attention, but he knew. you know, he knew when he took the job, he was there to be a front for these guys and he served dutifully as that front. you think he knew that? in the beginning, yeah. cheney was down and pulled him out of line, really discovered him in the white house when he was in the white house as an intern. and then car lucci and all those guys. he had a lot of history with those republicans and i m going to defend him because i like him.
it s a great question. what is a credible republican on this thing? i think we don t give enough credit to the fact that there s a big fissure within the republican party over these very questions. we quoted dr. brzezinski in this article talking about how this goes back to the basic debate over interventionism. it used to be republicans were hesitant towards that. i think there s going to be a lot of republicans in this town who end up speaking out in favor of chuck hagel strictly because they don t like what happened over the past 12 years with respect to u.s. engagement overseas. i would add you beat my opt minch on that one, sam. i ll answer. coo keep at it. there have been an avalanche of ex-reagan administration people, frank car lucci, colin powell, others, who have come out john warner, who have come out in favor. i think there s a generational split. look, barack obama beat mitt romney on foreign policy easily. this is not a guy who walks around in the way that d
analysts in our government in for completing the mission of killing osama bin laden. and he s managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack that former defense secretary, frank car lucci for president reagan called sad, john mccain called shameful. i think most americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign. how much has the white house been touting the bin laden victory? let s put it in context, part of it springs from a speech last thursday. a campaign speech that vice president biden gave up in manhattan, he said the bumper sticker for this coming campaign would be bin laden is dead, general motors isn t. there was a web ad released in the week by the campaign that featured bill clinton talking about the raid, talking about how courageous president obama was in pushing that button, and making that call. bill clinton saying he took the harder path. there was a lot of risk