TGIF. Time for our weekly preview of the guest list for this Sunday's Meet the Press, where we offer up a few of the hard-hitting questions we'd like to hear from our jowly host, and ask for your suggested questions.
According to the MTP website, this week’s show will focus on
Iraq, Iran, and U.S. Intelligence: What are we doing to prevent a future terrorist attack? What is the outlook in Iraq as the casualities and the insurgency continue?
Sounds promising... good to see Iraq at the top of the menu, and the acknowledgement (at least by the website writer) that the body count continues to rise. According to MTP, these questions will be asked of Sen. Joe Biden and Rep. Curt Weldon, "two key members of Congress just back from a trip to the region".
Here are the questions I’d love to hear Russert ask Biden and Weldon:
- "You both returned from Iraq convinced that the administration is misleading the American people about how things are going in Iraq -- especially about how soon we’ll be able to turn things over to Iraqi troops, and the strength of the insurgency. Yet neither of you has called on the White House to provide an exit strategy. What are you waiting for?"
- "Sen. Biden, you have called Guantanamo Bay 'the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world'... yet your response to this international relations disaster is to call for an independent investigation into Gitmo? An investigation? Why not a full-fledged study? Or maybe even a comprehensive analysis? What more do you need to know before you demand that the place be shut down?"
- "Congressman Weldon, we’ve seen the Bush administration lead us into war in Iraq based on false intelligence. Yet in your new book, you call similarly discredited intelligence a "casus belli" -- a cause for war -- against Iran? Aren’t you concerned that instead of learning from history we’re ready to repeat our mistakes?"
And here’s a bonus question, to be directed at the panelists taking part on the MTP roundtable. According to the show, "David Broder of the Washington Post, Gwen Ifill of PBS' 'Washington Week,' John Harwood of the 'Wall Street Journal,' and Judy Woodruff, longtime political reporter who signed off as Anchor of CNN's 'Inside Politics' last week ... will share their insights and analysis on President Bush's second term, Howard Dean's chairmanship of the DNC, and the early forecast for the 2008 elections."
- "Panelists, can you believe we are actually going to waste valuable and precious air time talking about something as ludicrous as early forecasts for 2008? Yet that is exactly what we are going to do... natter on mindlessly about something that is over 3 years away. Isn’t baseless tea leaf reading and horse-race speculation so much more fun than talking about real news?"
Okay... that’s what I'd like to hear him say. Now it's your turn, readers. Go to the comments sections and send us your questions. We'll post the best ones tomorrow... and also send them on to the
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