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Bush and Rove Launch 'Legacy' Project
bradblog.com - 12/18/2008
Bush and Rove Launch 'Legacy' Project
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Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review . On Tuesday, Stephen Hayes, a conservative columnist and analyst for CNN, revealed that George Bush and Karl Rove have launched a new propaganda campaign with the monumental goal of rewriting the history of the past eight years. The newspeak ...
Cheney’s Wishful Thinking: Iraq Had ‘Capability To Produce’ WMD When We Invaded
thinkprogress.org - 12/16/2008
Cheney’s Wishful Thinking: Iraq Had ‘Capability To Produce’ WMD When We Invaded
— thinkprogress.org — Earlier this month at a debate on President Bush’s legacy in New York, Karl Rove claimed that... if the Bush administration had known before the war that Iraq did not possess WMD, the U.S. would likely not have invaded : QUESTION: Had the ... (more) Cheney’s Wishful Thinking: Iraq Had ‘Capability To ...

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nytimes.com - 12/20/2008
24 Officers to Be Freed, Iraqi Says
— nytimes.com — Iraqi’s interior minister publicly condemned his own government’s investigation, calling the accusations false and motivated purely by... politics. > (more) 24 Officers to Be Freed, Iraqi Says

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Gaffney: 4,000 Americans Had To Die In Iraq
thinkprogress.org - 12/16/2008
Gaffney: 4,000 Americans Had To Die In Iraq
— thinkprogress.org — In a new interview with ABC News, Vice President Cheney claimed that the the case for war... had nothing to do with whether Saddam Hussein had WMD ; America would have invaded anyway. Today on MSNBC’s Hardball, right-wing commentator Frank Gaffney ... (more) Gaffney: 4,000 Americans Had To Die In Iraq

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The Bush Legacy
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Bush Legacy: A Liberator of 50,000,000-- A President Who Kept US Safe — Gateway Pundit
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Bush: “I Didn't Compromise My Soul to Be a Popular Guy” — The Page by Mark Halperin
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Deep Thought (Legacy Tour ed.) — Booman Tribune
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Hoover? Dayum! — Firedoglake
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— Rising Hegemon
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CARLISLE, Pa. — President George W. Bush went a step further Wednesday to define his legacy, saying America has been kept safe from another Sept. 11-style terrorist attack during his watch. In a speech at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., Bush said that after the terror ...