Epstein Secrets

the press by an administration already girded for combat. How depressing to look back on those days and see not just the obvious -- Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice; those who promised America would be "greeted as liberators" (Cheney), and who threatened nuclear "mushroom clouds" (

onald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself. In October 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president reque

Dime President Obama's policies to death with the ultimate goal of dismantling almost all of his accomplishments, as well as to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Last year the tenants of this same Ryan plan was celebrated by the GOP as the "Pathway to Prosperity" campaign — cutting spendi

, Bush belatedly moved to rein in his vice president, siding with Justice Department lawyers on surveillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice win the argument over whether to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site (we didn't)

ened. After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times.... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. One of my fathe

re to those who already have a lot. And if you want a strong piece of evidence in favor of that cynical view, look at the current state of play over Medicaid." Some background: Medicaid, which provides health insurance to lower-income Americans, is a highly successful program that's about to get bigger,

ays of the Iraq War and things were not going well. Wh=n asked whether he wished he had more troops. Petraeus was too polit=cally savvy to criticize the Donald Rumsfeld "light footprint*=8* strategy, so he deflected the question, answering it a different way= "I wish we had more Foreign Service officers, aid profess

was too polit=cally savvy to criticize the Donald Rumsfeld "light footprint*=8* strategy, so he deflected th

eminar for prospective patient=. On a recent Saturday, 60 people showed up. Perhaps one-third would=follow through with surgery. For some, Medicare, Medicaid, or private insu=ers will pay, calculating that the price of the surgery is less than the c=st of a lifetime of chronic disease. At Baptist Memphis,