the top republican in the senate had not talked about libya before today. imagine being mitch mcconnell on a situation like this. knowing if you even try to say beep about your solemnly held concerns about the war on libya, every single person seeing you talk about it will imagine the word iraq! iraq! iraq! flashing over your head the entire time you are talking. no wonder mitch mcconnell waited this long to say anything. the imaginary flashing giant iraq over his head problem also goes for joe lieberman, guys like john mccain, for the panel of iraq war cheerleaders, even wolfowicz who were asked to give opinions on the latest war at the conservative think tank. surprise, they are all in favor. for the part of republican and conservative establishment that never met a military intervention they didn t like, no matter of the character, point of the war, location of the war, anything else going around it, you can pretty much
change argument in the other. saying we reject both those, taking the middle path. the fact is he opened political attack from both ends. there will be republicans that say we never should have done this, like mccain, for instance, and there will be a lot more if this goes poorly. then there will be republicans that say we re doing half measures, we need to lead. we shouldn t take second seat to france, et cetera. so there s both of those in the republican camps. there are plausible attacks from do you think anything happened in the speech to effect substantively this debate about the president seeking overt congressional authority for what he s going to do in the future or what he has already done? do you think anything changes about that or the debate stays as is. i was struck by the fact it wasn t mentioned, alluded to. they talked about talk to go bipartisan members of congress. but that remained unenunciated.
the military hunta that had taken over that country. eoiallia, hen john mccain said a alongside the georgians? it was the uss whitney deployed that georgia n part it went to. that s considered to be the most advanced command and control ship that the united states has ever floated. it is where the u.s. has bn running the libyan war out of. between the admiral and a u.s. army general, this is where they ve been running the war in libya from. as of last night, the uss mount