Weekend Watchdog
By Bill Scher
May 18th, 2007 - 3:43pm ET
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.
And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" program, where I'll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up.
For Newt Gingrich (NBC's Meet The Press): You're one of the intellectual architects of the current foreign policy strategy in the Gulf, and President Bush is following your advice on Iraq by naming a "war czar."
Yet in May 1999 during the NATO campaign in Kosovo, you said that:
...the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton, and I accuse you in Kosovo, of being afraid to talk about the mess you have made, and being afraid to take responsibility for the things that you have done, and instead foisting on the rest of us pathetic banalities because you don't have the courage to look at the world you have created...
...I don't know why none of the Joints Chiefs have resigned because this campaign is a violation of every rule I know of in how you design a campaign...
... We are wasting our resources. Our prestige is diminishing. And all over the world we look like a violent, helpless, pathetic country.
Few now see the Kosovo campaign as a failure, but most of the American people believe the Iraq war is a failure that's not worth our resources.
Our prestige is greatly diminished, most recently manifested by our inability to control the presidency of the World Bank.
World opinion of the U.S. government has plummeted as many see the current foreign policy as "violent" and hypocritical on democracy.
Shouldn't you take some "responsibility" for the current "mess" in Iraq? And shouldn't the Joint Chiefs resign in protest?
For Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (Fox News Sunday): You support the immigration compromise because it's about "America being competitive."
As the deal devalues family ties in favor of work skills, and creates a new temporary worker program that would not allow new immigrants to stay and earn citizenship, is "being competitive" just a euphemism for maintaining a steady flow of cheap labor?
For Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. (CBS' Face The Nation): You have called for a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
But aside from the merits of removing Gonzales from office, would his ouster "put this behind us" as some have argued? Or would we still need to find out who put names on the prosecutor purge list and why?
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