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lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/18/2009

Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge

— lynch.foreignpolicy.com — Peter Beinart today bravely repeats the emerging would-be conventional wisdom . Rather than simply denounce everything Republican, he argues, Democrats should admit that the "surge" worked and -- uniquely echoing a thousand recent ... (more) Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge

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washingtonpost.com - 1/15/2009

10 Take Aways From the Bush Years

— washingtonpost.com — Sunday, January 18, 2009; B01 Coming Sunday in Outlook There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush . Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 ... (more) 10 Take Aways From the Bush Years

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washingtonpost.com - 1/24/2009

Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End

— washingtonpost.com — Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 23, 2009; A01 President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war ... (more) Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End

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Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN rapporteur
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... particularly penal law" to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it. "We have all these documents that are now publicly available that prove that these methods of interrogation were intentionally ordered by Rumsfeld," against detainees at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nowak said. "But obviously the highest authorities in the United States were aware of this," added Nowak, who authored a UN investigation report on the Guantanamo prison. Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jEs-...

UN's torture top dog: Bush, Rumsfeld should be tried for torture
Jihad Watch — It is indeed a black day for freedom. If this happens, if the Obama Administration allows this to happen, then U.S. sovereignty will be gone, in the air, never to be captured again, and the door will be wide open to the Islamization of the West. "Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN rapporteur," from AFP, January 20 (thanks to Pamela): BERLIN (AFP) — The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for ...

U.N. special rapporteur on torture calls on U.S. to prosecute Bush and Rumsfeld.
Think Progress — ... , urged the U.S. to pursue former President George W. Bush and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on charges that they authorized torture and other harsh interrogation techniques: ...

U.N. special rapporteur on torture calls on U.S. to prosecute Bush and Rumsfeld.
The Hollywood Liberal — ... , urged the U.S. to pursue former President George W. Bush and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on charges that they authorized torture and other harsh interrogation techniques: bushrummyweb.jpg“Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld. […] He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required “all means, particularly penal law” to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it.“We have all these documents that are now publicly available that prove that these methods of ...

Eric Holder's Hidden Agenda -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy
Articles on National Review Online — ... So we come back to Holder in Berlin. Two months before the attorney general’s visit, the U.N.’s “special rapporteur on torture” told German television that the Obama administration had “a clear obligation” under the UNCAT to file torture charges against former president George W. Bush and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The rapporteur was relying on documents produced because of American investigations -- including a nakedly partisan report by the Democrat-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee. ...