Huckleberry slams Chimpy on Iraq for go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality"

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.

Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor now running for the Republican presidential nomination, lays out a policy plan that is long on optimism but short on details in the January-February issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations. A copy of his article was released Friday.

"American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out," Huckabee said. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists."

In one specific criticism, Huckabee said Bush did not send enough troops to invade Iraq. And he accused the president of marginalizing Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, who said at the outset of the war that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion. "I would have met with Shinseki privately and carefully weighed his advice," Huckabee said.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071215/D8THJH880.html

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1. here's his defense plan

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3. Running mates?

[TwilightGardener]

2. He must have read one of Obama's or Hillary's speeches

and decided to crib parts of it. That's how he got his immigration plan--he cut and pasted from a National Review article. He read about the Fair Tax in a book, and BAM--Fair Tax Bandwagon! He is literally making his candidacy and policy positions up as he goes along. I am pretty sure he doesn't even fully understand what his speech means. Besides, last spring I heard him say that he agreed with whatever President Bush was doing, because he (Huck) didn't have the access to the intelligence and military guidance to understand what was going on in Iraq. But now, of course, he's an expert enough to criticize. Yeah, right.