turcopolier.typepad.com - 1/11/2009
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I listened to Britt Hume interview the two Bushes on Fox News Sunday. It was less than inspiring, but informative of the mentality of these three men. At one point one of the bushes referred to the Oval Office (in...
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 ...
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 ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/18/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
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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But You Could Not Even Hide from the Ugly Truth
Unqualified Offerings —
The United States government has always engaged in war crimes and human rights violations. What’s different this decade is that, under the leadership of a terrible president, our elites have become vociferous advocates of the goodness and rightness of war crimes and human rights violations. After the period from Grant and Sherman’s Indian policies to the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, America’s powerful learned to at least talk a good game. This led to real improvement in people’s lives when proles and poobahs from Portugal to Poland to the Philippines took our ...
The Embrace
Matthew Yglesias —
... The United States government has always engaged in war crimes and human rights violations. What’s different this decade is that, under the leadership of a terrible president, our elites have become vociferous advocates of the goodness and rightness of war crimes and human rights violations. ...
In Case You Forgot
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... “The media usually characterize the practice as “simulated drowning.” That’s incorrect. To be effective, waterboarding is usually real drowning that simulates death.” Bush and Cheney seem to think they inhabit an amoral free zone, where they are free to act as they will, all for a perceived good cause. So there consciences are free of any apparent pain or trouble, no matter how much pain they trouble others with in dark places. These guys just know, without any proof. ...
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Crooks and Liars —
... failure of Zionism. Massive protests in London, Barcelona, Madrid
Beggars Can Be Choosers: Bush took bin Laden's bait
Politics in the Zeros: Australian military warns climate change may cause failed states
VetVoice: Joe the Plumber reporter says "I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting."
Unqualified Offerings: Sure we torture people, but only "known killers"
This Modern World: Goodbye to all that
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