Flashpoint for Nov. 19, 2005

Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 | 8:18 a.m.

Jon Ralston hosts the news discussion program Face to Face with Jon Ralston on Las Vegas ONE and also publishes the daily e-mail newsletter RalstonFlash.com. His column for the Las Vegas Sun appears Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Ralston can be reached at 870-7997 or through e-mail at ralston@vegas.com.

The to and fro between the Bush administration and its political operatives and the Reid administration and its political operatives over Iraq is quite spectacular. Reid has been pounding the president for being dishonest about the war and he maneuvered the Senate Republicans into passing a resolution widely seen as a rebuke to the Bush administration's handling of the war. The Bushies have responded, led by the vice president and the RNC, by running a TV ad and sending out releases exhuming old quotes from Reid and others supporting the war. The Reid war room struck back Friday with a fact sheet, and the escalation surely will continue on the Sunday talk shows. Maybe a Bush-Reid debate on "Face to Face" next week?

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