andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/16/2008
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Reuel Marc Gerecht responds to my postings yesterday: I take it from your post that if you had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a major, mass-casualty terrorist strike was about to go down in the United States, and you ...
thinkprogress.org - 12/15/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Yesterday, after an Iraqi journalist used “ [t]wo
of the worst insults in Islam ” against him,...
an unfazed President Bush sat down with ABC’s Martha Raddatz for an exit interview in Iraq. When Raddatz asked Bush about his legacy, ...
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Bush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: ...
usatoday.com - 12/18/2008
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usatoday.com —
"As a wife, I saw it as an
assault, and that's what it was," she told USA...
TODAY during an interview at the White House on Thursday. "So I didn't laugh it off." A month before returning to private life, Bush said she will continue her public advocacy ...
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Laura Bush speaks out on shoe-throwing incident
swamppolitics.com - 12/15/2008
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swamppolitics.com —
by Frank James On the way to Afghanistan
last night, President Bush joked with reporters aboard Air...
Force One about the shoes seen 'round the world. It seemed like he actually made fun of himself at one point, saying he didn't know what the man ...
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Bush doesn't admit Iraq's angry soles
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Tick Tock, You Don’t Stop
Balloon Juice —
... for this, as it is inevitable that any discussion of torture will lead to ticking time bomb scenarios. In the most recent version, Reuel Marc Gerecht takes us back to September 7th, 2001, and says, basically- “What about then? Then would you torture?” ...
Hell No
N/A —
... “Moral men can go the other way” on torture? No, hell no. Men may go the other way on torture, but it’s the insistence they still are moral that offends. ...
On Torture: The Will Of The People
TalkLeft —
Responding to Reuel Marc Gerecht's defense of his pro-torture position, Kevin Drum writes: Sadly, I suspect that Gerecht is right: if torture had been put to a vote back in 2001, it would have passed. The language would have been prettied up, of course, but the intention would have been clear enough and the public would have approved. Even today, I'm pretty sure that a majority of Americans are basically OK with torture as long as it's mostly kept out of sight and they can go about their business. Drum begs the question - since no ...
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swampland.blogs.time.com 1/13/2009 — A number of readers have taken me to task for not calling for the prosecution of George Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on . Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration ...
GEORGE W. BUSH, WAR CRIMINAL?
uswarcrimes.com 12/31/2008 — Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those who support Bush’s pursuit of the “war on terror” have not been impressed by recriminations over torture. Worse than torture are the murders of at ...
With a little help from his friends
sideshow.me.uk 1/4/2009 — It's funny, Frank Rich wrote a fairly meaty article on what a crummy "president" Bush has been - one that must have been gratifying for him to write and equally fun for many to read - but he was still too nice to him. He refutes White House claims of ...
On Torture: The Will Of The People
talkleft.com 12/24/2008 — Responding to Reuel Marc Gerecht's defense of his pro-torture position, Kevin Drum writes : Sadly, I suspect that Gerecht is right: if torture had been put to a vote back in 2001, it would have passed. The language would have been prettied up, of ...
Clear and Present Danger
longwarjournal.org 11/22/2008 —
Detainees at Guantánamo Bay in 2002. DPA photo.
On Sunday, November 16, CBS News ' 60 Minutes broadcast the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama. The exchange touched on a wide range of topics, from Obama's distaste ...
TORTURE: Some Thoughts
michaelyon-online.com 3/4/2009 — PART I 04 March 2009 On 24 February 2009, President Barack Obama said during his speech: “The United States of America Does Not Torture.” The President’s words were cast LIVE, around the globe, and I was literally on the other side of the ...
The Best Defense | A FOREIGN POLICY blog
ricks.foreignpolicy.com 1/7/2009 — Two things that need to be said about this. The Afghan war isn't either. That is: What do I mean by that? First, I find the "good war" term offensive. I find it hard to use that word to describe anything that maims and kills innocent men, women and ...
In defense of torture
ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com 12/18/2008 — Ross gives us a fairly thoughtful untangling of his complicated feelings about torture. If I may, I'd quibble with one point. Ross puts Bush's torture advocacy in historical perspective, correctly point out that while torture may be a betrayal of ...
Perino: ‘We Did Not Torture’
thinkprogress.org 11/19/2008 — The Bush had administration repeatedly insists that it does not practice torture: “ We do not torture ,” President Bush declared in 2005. The U.S. “ is not torturing any detainees ,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino ...
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