news.yahoo.com - 1/20/2009
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BERLIN (Reuters) Editorial writers around the world have been taking their final printed whacks at George W. Bush , accusing the president of tarnishing America's standing with what many saw as arrogant and incompetent leadership. Some newspaper editorials , for all their criticism, suggested ...
foxnews.com - 1/18/2009
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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 ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/18/2009
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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 ...
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Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge
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The world says goodbye to Bush
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... my own negative view of Bush plummeted on 9/11 when he went MIA. At a moment when Americans around the world were looking for leadership, the coward went into hiding. As an American overseas who wasn't able to successfully get a phone line through to the US for days I was looking for leadership that day and all we got was the mayor of NY. It was the most cowardly moment and no matter how loud he yelled days later on his bullhorn, it could never make up for that pathetic day. Onto the low lights: "A weak leader, Bush was just overwhelmed in the job," said ...
World to Bush: Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha
Brilliant at Breakfast —
With the exception of Israel, the rest of the world is about as sorry to see George W. Bush leave the stage as we here at home: "A weak leader, Bush was just overwhelmed in the job," said Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung under a headline: "The Failure." "He confused stubbornness with principles. America has become intolerant and it will take a long time to repair that damage." [snip] Canada's Toronto Star was categorical in its condemnation. "Goodbye to the worst president ever," it declared. "Bush was an unmitigated disaster, failing on the big ...
Final Punches
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The foreign press says goodbye to Bush.
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google.com 3/17/2009 — 3 hours ago OTTAWA (AFP) Canadians amassed shoes to throw in protest against George W. Bush on Tuesday when he gives his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch. The footwear was to be tossed at an effigy of the 43rd US president ...
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"True friend" Blair gets Bush medal - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 1/14/2009 — WASHINGTON (AFP) President George W. Bush praised three "true friends of the United States" as he awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to Tony Blair , John Howard and Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe . The three men were given the Presidential ...
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