julescrittenden.com - 12/27/2008
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Considering that it's published in the UK, the Telegraph is a great American newspaper. Nile Gardiner:
Much of the condemnation of his policies though is driven by a venomous hatred of Bush's personality and leadership style, rather than an objective assessment of his achievements. Ten or ...
julescrittenden.com - 12/30/2008
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants "war to
the bitter end." Hamas is on the run, its...
terrorist infrastructure and personnel being blown to bits as we speak. All good, but at the end of the day, all that gets you is a pile of rubble and a bunch ...
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So, What Next?
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 12/27/2008
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"The decision by Bush, with Blair's support, to
sweep the Taliban out of Afghanistan was a brilliant...
move, one that not all U.S. presidents would have taken. A weaker leader would have gone to the United Nations Security Council and sought a ...
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George W. Bush-- A Liberator Who Rescued 60,000,000 From ...
julescrittenden.com - 1/2/2009
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New Year's Day is a time for reflection,
a time for charting new courses. I've advanced beyond...
weight-loss concerns ... which is to say I've accepted a moderate middle-aged paunch and could give a damn. Like the gray hairs and the wrinkles, I've ...
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60 Million Minds
Neptunus Lex —
Freed.
Some people will always hate us for that.
Bush's Legacy In The Echo Chamber
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
Question: If the Director of The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom (what a contradiction in terms) pens an op-ed for the unapologetic hideaway for neocon serial liars that is the UK's Daily Torygraph, one that calls George W. Bush the greatest liberator "since Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt", and it gets repeated by folks like Jules Cretinhead, should we take it seriously?
Answer: Hell, no. ...
GEORGE W. BUSH, LIBERATOR? “Much of the condemnation of his policies though is driven by a venomous…
Instapundit —
... GEORGE W. BUSH, LIBERATOR? “Much of the condemnation of his policies though is driven by a venomous hatred of Bush’s personality and leadership style, rather than an objective assessment of his achievements. Ten or twenty years from now, historians will view Bush’s actions on the world stage in a more favourable light. America’s 43rd president did after all directly liberate more people (over 60 million) from tyranny than any leader since Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Stay tuned! ...
Religion & Politics linkaround
The Anchoress —
... “if you do not agree with everything I want, you are an intolerant hater who should be marginalized. But if we do not agree with what you think, we are simply correct. And you are stupid.”
On the political front: President-elect Bush worked out daily and was derided for it, Obama is praised for it. Bush made it clear he missed his privacy, Obama bristles about it. Bush ignored it and liberated 60 million people and, as Jules remarks has accepted the role of punching bag as he has done it. Bush has done more to keep people ...
Monday morning links
Maggie's Farm —
... kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. So have the unions. So have managements that have gone along to get along. Toyota, Honda and other foreign automakers are not heading for Detroit, even though there are lots of experienced automobile workers there. They are avoiding the rust belts and the policies that have made those places rust belts. A bailout of Detroit's Big Three would be only the latest in the postponements of reality. George Bush, The Great Liberator. I'm down with that. Good man, lousy pol. Quoted at American ...
ChangeWatch
Stones Cry Out —
... ), and we’re still likely to see many a liberal policy enacted. However, underneath all this complaining by the Left that the new boss seems the same as the old boss is one thought; maybe the old boss got some things right. ...
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baltimoresun.com 1/25/2009 — A s George W. Bush fades from the world stage, many of his detractors are belatedly coming to appreciate that, for all his shortcomings, he has at least "kept us safe." And rightly so. In the aftermath of that terrible September morning in 2001, few ...
Bush wants history to see him as a liberator of millions
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Thanks, George
julescrittenden.com 11/26/2008 — Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense. Politico:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. ...
Do As We Say …
julescrittenden.com 12/7/2008 — Boston's border control chief busted ... for hiring illegals! Howie puts it best:
This town really does need an enema.
How corrupt has Boston become when we now have illegal alien maids from Brazil wearing wires against six-figure federal immigration ...
Something Different
julescrittenden.com 11/29/2008 — Roggio, Long War Journal, with a long examination of how the Mumbai attacks differed from past terrorism attacks: military-style assaults on multiple targets led to three days of fighting:
The Mumbai attack is unique from past terror strikes carried ...
It’s Clinton-Bush!
julescrittenden.com 12/1/2008 — Wake up and smell the foreign policy! Big day for the incoming Clinton-Bush administration as POTUS-elect Obama Rodham Bush 3 announces the national security team he campaigned against. Roundup:
NYT, hopefully: Change is coming. Hawks have embraced ...
We’re No 1!
julescrittenden.com 11/15/2008 — Boston City Hall ... the Ugliest Building in the World. Boston Herald:
Bostonians didn’t need VirtualTourist.com and City Hall’s top billing on the World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments list to figure that out. Residents have known it ...
It’s Not What You Know
julescrittenden.com 2/13/2009 — It's what you plan to do about it. LA Times reads Obama's lips on Iranian nukes, notices he's admitted Iran's up to no good. This part is kind of funny, in a tragic, Middle East arms race, mushroom cloud kind of way:
As the administration moves ...
Two Down
julescrittenden.com 2/17/2009 — It may be quiet, but it isn't over. Two to be buried in Massachusetts this week.
Lance Cpl. Kevin Preach of Bridgewater died of injuries sustained in an IED attack in Afghanistan.
Like the title character of his favorite “Rocky” movies, ...
What?
julescrittenden.com 11/2/2008 — The military is apparently researching amnesia beams as a treatment for PTSD ... and probably other useful applications ... and scientists have already succeeded in making mice forget things. Danger Room rounds up military and civilian efforts:
A ...