The Washington Times

From the people who brought you “Howard Dean will be the nominee,” “George W. Bush is vulnerable,” “Ralph Nader doesn’t matter” and “the news conference bombed,” we now have, more or less, “John Kerry can’t win.” Good grief.

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The Washington Times

The second-guessing of the Bush administration over Iraq has been a part of the background noise since, really, the start of major combat operations, if not indeed before. Shouldn’t the United States have done more to try to secure a northern invasion route into Iraq out of Turkey? Did U.S. forces move too quickly into Iraq, leaving their supply lines dangerously exposed as they became bogged down in a sandstorm?

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The Washington Times

Trying times in Iraq make it worthwhile to explain the basics once again: Saddam Hussein was a security problem, a legal problem and a moral problem. That’s why we took him out. But that’s not why we are in Iraq today.

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The Washington Times

Thanks to the spike in insurgent violence in Iraq, beginning with the grisly scene of mutilated American bodies in Fallujah and continuing through a violent weekend, the question of whether the June 30 transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi authority should go forward is now on the table. Is it, perhaps, too soon? Doesn’t handing over sovereignty in a deteriorating security environment pose additional risks, including, perhaps, an emerging full-scale civil war?

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