Apparently GWB planned to delay the announcement of the extension of tours of duty in Iraq until he could blame it on the Congressional Democrats.
George W. Bush is like a brilliant limbo dancer: every time you think he’s gone as low as any human being could possibly go, he goes still lower. Apparently he planned to delay the announcement of the extension of tours of duty in Iraq until he could blame it on the Congressional Democrats.
Amazing!
Footnote Notice that the delay in informing soldiers and their families which the Administration had planned, until someone in the Pentagon accidentally told the truth, would have had real-world consequences on the plans of real, live soldiers. National Guardsmen, in particular, who planned on going back to work by a particular date to catch up on their delinquent mortgage payments might have found out the truth only when it was too late to make alternative plans to save their homes.
But none of them are Bonesmen, so who cares?
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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