“Yes, I was pleased with my time — runners love flat courses!” — Wichita City Manager Robert Layton (in photo), on his division-winning 38:39 finish in the River Run 10K
“I went into the public trails and got lost. . . . I listened for the interstate and found my way back to I-70.” — Gov. Mark Parkinson, on his recent maiden jog near Cedar Crest, the governor’s mansion
“Health didn’t fare well at all. I learned a long time ago that there are two things you can’t argue with: no money and a closed mind. We had both this year.” — Rep. Bob Bethell, R-Alden, on the 2009 legislative session
“Moderate rhetoric, hard-left policies.” — Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., summing up President Obama’s approach to abortion in the New York Times
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Frank Rich this morning reveals –
GQ will post some very interesting reports from journalist Robert Draper.
Draper reports that Rumsfeld’s monomaniacal determination to protect his Pentagon turf led him to hobble and antagonize America’s most willing allies in Iraq, Britain and Australia, and even to undermine his own soldiers. But Draper’s biggest find is a collection of daily cover sheets that Rumsfeld approved for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations. GQ is posting 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.
Take the one dated April 3, 2003, two weeks into the invasion, just as Shock and Awe hit its first potholes. Two days earlier, on April 1, a panicky Pentagon had begun spreading its hyped, fictional account of the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch to distract from troubling news of setbacks. On April 2, Gen. Joseph Hoar, the commander in chief of the United States Central Command from 1991-94, had declared on the Times Op-Ed page that Rumsfeld had sent too few troops to Iraq. And so the Worldwide Intelligence Update for April 3 bullied Bush with Joshua 1:9: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Including, as it happened, into a quagmire.)”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html
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