Voices against Bush now heard emanating from unlikely places - Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/30/2005 |

Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/30/2005 | Voices against Bush now heard emanating from unlikely places:

"Weekly Standard editor William Kristol was summoned by Bush aides late last year to help craft the inaugural speech, then lauded the finished speech as 'impressive' on Fox News.

But Christopher Preble, a Navy veteran of the 1991 Gulf War who directs foreign policy at the conservative Cato Institute, cites the ongoing downside - an average of two slain soldiers a day, and $2 billion a week - and offers this warning to the President:

'Conservatives were sold on the assumption that it wouldn't be long and costly. Now we're paying for it in taxpayer dollars and paying with our lives... . He can talk about doing other things - [curbing] abortion, reforming Social Security - but the war is where the rubber meets the road. If he truly feels he has a mandate for this, he's in for a rude awakening.'"