shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 1/16/2009
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By Christian Brose And there you have it folks. Curtains for the Bush presidency . No big surprises tonight. And nothing that will be much remembered either I'm afraid -- no evocations to " steer clear of permanent alliances ," no warnings of a " military-industrial complex ...
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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The End of the Bush Presidency
Ross Douthat —
... echoed his expansive Second Inaugural, with its simple (and simplistic) vision of a world divided between freedom and tyranny, and a crusading America advancing the one and defeating the other. He was at home in that rhetoric; he's never seemed at home since. And as Chris Brose suggests, while Bush's vision may have been appropriate to the post-9/11 moment, when the United States needed to be rallied against our foes, it wasn't the right sort of rhetoric for the broader era of terrorism, counterinsurgency, and counter-proliferation in which we find ourselves - and it's been ...
The Bush Record
Matthew Yglesias —
... Thinking back to George W. Bush’s farewell address it’s striking that the best thing the man can say about his record in office is that only once during his term in office were 3,000 people killed by foreign terrorists. And it’s really striking that other people in the conservative movement seem to take this “accomplishment” very seriously. Here’s Christian Brose and ...
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