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liberalvaluesblog.com - 1/9/2009
The Bush Administration’s Most Despicable Act - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought
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Joe Klein picks out the Bush administration’s one most despicable act:“This is not the America I know,” President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the ...
The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act
time.com - 1/8/2009
The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act
— time.com — "This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures... of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the ... (more) The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act

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Crooks and Liars — They gave us a republic: UN Relief workers in Gaza attacked by Israeli forces Connecting.the.Dots: No revolution for the Health Czar Pruning Shears: Rockefeller and Feinstein: Preserving the Bush Legacy skippy the bush kangaroo: Note to Republicans The Aristocrats: Dept. of "I sh*t you not" Bitter Lawyer: Loose Ends ...

President Bush's Legacy: One of Our Greatest Presidents
Jon Swift — ... After Abu Ghraib, some America haters used the photographs that soldiers stupidly took of harsh interrogations of prisoners as evidence in their propaganda that the Bush Administration did not care about upholding the Geneva Conventions. But President Bush took decisive action to prosecute the bad apples, mostly soldiers and low-level commanders, who were solely responsible for what went on there to show the world that we take the Geneva Conventions very seriously even though it is just a treaty and not technically binding especially when we are trying to fight an enemy that ...

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