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rawstory.com - 1/11/2009

White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success

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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 the Bush Bubble: At first, the ...

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lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/18/2009

Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge

— 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 ... (more) Bush's finest moment on Iraq: SOFA, not the surge

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turcopolier.typepad.com - 1/11/2009

GW Bush on "known killers"

— turcopolier.typepad.com — 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... (more) GW Bush on "known killers"

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nationalinterest.org - 1/8/2009

The National Interest

— nationalinterest.org — by Richard Perle 01.06.2009 FOR EIGHT years George W. Bush pulled the levers of government—sometimes frantically—never realizing that they were disconnected from the machinery and the exertion was largely futile. As a result, the foreign and security ... (more) The National Interest

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John V. Santore: Notes on Bush's Fairwell Address
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John V. Santore: There Is No Victory in Iraq
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Before talk of promoting a free and democratic Iraq became the prime justification for the continuation of the war, enhancing the security of the United States and our allies around the world was the central goal. Available statistics indicate that in the years after the war commenced, deaths at the hands of organizations considered to be terrorist in nature increased dramatically, the opposite of the intended affect. A National Intelligence Estimate sent to President Bush in 2006 even ...

Metric Shopping
Firedoglake — ... And let's not forget the Republicans' favorite metric of all, "No terrorist attacks on American soil." Well, except for that one time, but none since Dubya started pretending to care!  Well, none involving explosions, anyway.  But even putting that minor quibble aside, it's still a very limited metric for a "Global War On Terror."  If you look at actual global terrorism, it's skyrocketed since Dubya took office. ...

The Ethics of Afghanistan
Open Left - Front Page — ... By contrast, it isn't clear that the military intervention has saved any lives at all. Since the start of our intervention, deaths caused by terrorism worldwide have actually increased by several thousand lives a year. If the military intervention hasn't caused a decline in deaths caused by terrorism, but has caused at least 9,300 deaths in Afghanistan ( ...