blogs.cqpolitics.com - 1/15/2009
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George W. Bush could not let go of his passion for privacy, never seeming to fully understand that he is a public servant who owed the nation more transparency. He ran one of the most secretive administrations in history. Vice...
foxnews.com - 1/18/2009
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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 ...
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Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Administration ...
google.com - 1/20/2009
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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 ...
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AFP: Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN ...
rawstory.com - 1/11/2009
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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 ...
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White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a ...
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Craig Crawford: Bush's Legacy: A Flawed Election
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... Sentinel, one of the participants in the consortium study. But those rules were not in effect in 2000 when the standards varied from county to county, so it cannot be said for sure that Bush would have lost if the Supreme Court had allowed a statewide recount.
The bottom line is that more Florida voters tried to vote for Gore than voted for Bush. There is a real chance that Bush should never have become president.
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Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 21, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... should be enough to send this message to Repuglicans, conservatives, and neo-cons; we’ve all had enough of the Repuglican singular thought processes, we’ve had enough of shredding the Constitution and revising history, we’ve had enough of elective wars and torture and abuse, we’ve had enough of civil rights abuses, we here in the U.S. as well as people the world over have had enough of Repuglicans and the Repuglican methods of governance!!!! * * * “George W. Bush could not let go of his passion for privacy, never seeming to fully understand that he is a public servant who ...
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