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Allawi: Bush-Cheney 527

…that President Bush says out on the campaign trail. It was as if Allawi‘s comments had been written by President Bush‘s speech writers. Of course, Dan Burton had to attack…

Froomkin Nails It

Dan Froomkin comes up with a beauty in his column today: In a soaring, eloquent, upbeat speech from the marble podium at the United Nations, President Bush yesterday put forth…

Bhagwati on Kerry’s trade positions

While fellow free trader Daniel Drezner says he’s leaning towards Kerry (and has zero probability of voting for Alan Keyes), his latest blog notes a couple of places where Jadesh…

Slumping Exports

In Daniel Drezner’s latest discussion (Doha is Back on Track) on of international trade issues, he notes this Kerry press release, which states: Exports Are Down Under President Bush-The First…

…lie in the primaries is a bit, well, too honest. AB P.S. Time to get off of that fence, Dan — the free trade grass is greener to your left….

…a difficult and perilous time. So conservative semi-endorsements of Kerry now include Sullivan, Bruce Bartlett, Dan Drezner, and Jacob Levy. Alleged liberals siding with Bush include Zell Miller, Chris Hitchens,…

More Grownups Speaking Out Following up on the previous post by Kash, I see that Dan Drezner has some semi-inside information from the Council on Foreign Relations National Meeting. In…

…Iraq and al-Qaeda, became so strained that they are barely on speaking terms, according to the book. White House communications director Dan Bartlett described Powell’s agreement to make the U.S….

Free Trade In a thorough and convincing (to me, but I was already convinced) article in Foreign Affairs, Dan Drezner makes a good point that I hadn’t heard before: Offshore…