American Family VOices - Miriam V.

AM Feed - August 30, 2005

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Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place: Unable to gain
traction in promoting his Iraq War "strategy," President Bush has shifted
his focus
to domestic issues in an attempt to change the subject. There's only one
problem: Bush is once again promoting his horribly unpopular Social Security
privatization
plan. On Monday President Bush delivered a speech at a California senior
center, where he returned to the Social Security issue that he's virtually
ignored
after making his initial push. During the speech, Bush also promoted his
Medicare prescription drug program - another program that the public has not
embraced.
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Although President Bush has been relentlessly positive about the situation
in Iraq, the reality is that experts feel that the new proposed Iraqi
constitution
falls far short of initial US goals for the region. Many of the potential
problems stem from the situation that the minority Sunni population now
finds
itself in. "What we have now is a situation which is the beginning of a
countdown to something that will look like civil war in Iraq," predicts
Flynt Leverett
of the Brookings Institution.
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Quote of the Day

"Retaliation against employees for providing information to Congress is
illegal and entirely unacceptable." - Excerpt from a letter sent by Sens.
Byron
Dorgan (D-ND), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) to
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regarding the recent demotion of Bunnatine
Greenhouse,
a contract officer who questioned the treatment received by Halliburton

Morning Snark
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Which failed domestic policy proposal will President Bush attempt to recycle
next? Will we try to solve Iraq's political issues with secret answers that
can only be found on Mars?
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