washingtonpost.com - 12/23/2008
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realclearpolitics.com - 12/22/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
As the year draws to an end and
President Bush enters his final month in office, there
is much commentary about the Administration's record over the past eight years. Unsurprisingly, many of these stories assail and distort the President's record and ...
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Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
motherjones.com - 12/17/2008
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motherjones.com —
TORTURE.... Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Reuel Marc Gerecht
defends his defense of torture: I take it from
your post that if you had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a ...
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Torture
juancole.com - 12/28/2008
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juancole.com —
1. Iraqis are safer because of Bush's War.
In fact, conditions of insecurity have helped created both
an internal and external refugee problem: ' At least 4.2 million Iraqis were displaced. These included 2.2 million who were displaced within Iraq ...
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Top Ten Myths about Iraq, 2008
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... Well, guess what? The efficacy of torture is not a close question anywhere outside of Fox television anymore. Darius Rejali has definitively studied the question and showed that torture does not elicit truthful confessions. In his book ...
Cheney Keeps Speaking
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The efficacy of torture is not a close question anywhere outside of Fox television anymore. Darius Rejali has definitively studied the question and showed that torture does not elicit truthful confessions. In his book ...
Jeff Wisdom supports torture
Fired Up! Missouri —
... Jeff Wisdom doesn't think waterboarding is torture. But does believe that "very good information" came from waterboarding, facts be damned. ...
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