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Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/18/2009
Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge
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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 op-eds -- was President Bush's finest ...

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Abu Aardvark:  FP Jan 18

Obsidian Wings:  America's Beinart Problem

Wonk Room:  Giving Away Too Much

Weekly Standard Blog:  Another SOFA?

foxnews.com - 1/18/2009
Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials | Political News
— foxnews.com — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on "FOX News Sunday." "I ... (more) Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Administration ...

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White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success
rawstory.com - 1/11/2009
White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success
— rawstory.com — One of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and mercifully drawing to a close is that after the president created a “central front in the war on terror” by invading Iraq, the amount of “terrorism” in the world skyrocketed. I call it ... (more) White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a ...

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google.com - 1/20/2009
AFP: Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN rapporteur
— google.com — 22 hours ago 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 torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. "Judicially speaking, the ... (more) AFP: Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN ...

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FP Jan 18
Abu Aardvark — ... For email subscribers, today's post on Foreign Policy: SOFA, not the Surge, in which I offer an alternative candidate for Bush's finest hour in Iraq ...

America's Beinart Problem
Obsidian Wings — ... On the merits, I think Marc Lynch sarcastically asks the right question: “[P]erhaps we could have another round of arguments as to whether the surge brigades arriving in the spring of 2007 caused the Sunni turn against al-Qaeda in the fall of 2006?” ...

Giving Away Too Much
Wonk Room — ... Also see Marc Lynch’s take on Beinart’s piece, in which Lynch suggests that Bush’s real act of courage was signing the SOFA: ...

Another SOFA?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... with the Iraqi leadership, who faced strong domestic opposition to the deal, and ultimately required the Bush administration to accept a fixed time-line for withdrawal (all U.S. forces must leave Iraq by the end of 2011). The Bush administration and General Petraeus were also satisfied that the agreement provided all necessary legal protections and immunities for U.S. forces. Moreover, the left was largely pleased with the new agreement. Marc Lynch recently called it "Bush's finest moment on Iraq." ...

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