Showing posts with label George W. Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George W. Bush. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2020

The Criminal War against Iraq

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I haven't read the book yet, but I recommend this review of Robert Draper's How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq by Ja...
Friday, March 23, 2018

TGIF: The Iraq Invasion after 15 Years

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On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. government's criminal, catastrophic, and still-to-this-day consequential war against Iraq in March ...
Friday, February 19, 2016

TGIF: Trump Backs Off Iraq Charge; Admits He Favored the War

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Alas, Donald Trump has backed off from his charge that the Bush administration lied the country into war against Iraq, telling a CNN town-ha...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Bush, 9/11, and Iraq: Trump Gets It Right

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Donald Trump, for all his obnoxious demagoguery, is adding value to the presidential campaign by calling former President George W. Bush to ...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Cruz and Rubio: Heirs to Bush-Obama Militarism

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I see no point splitting hairs over whether Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio is the more egregious warmonger. Both love the bloody and costly U.S. em...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

TGIF: The Season of Peace Requires Action Not Songs

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It's the time of year when people sing about peace and goodwill. Unfortunately in the United States, too little thought accompanies the ...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Obama Still Does a Good Imitation of Bush

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We really should be used to this by now. After almost six years in office, President Obama is far more like George W. Bush in national-secu...
Friday, May 16, 2014

The Neoconservative Obsession with Iran

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Americans could be enjoying cultural and commercial relations with Iranians were it not for U.S. “leaders,” who are more aptly described as...
Friday, March 28, 2014

TGIF: Obama's Iraqi Fairy Tale

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One need not condone Vladimir Putin’s ham-handedness to see that Obama has no leg to stand on when he contrasts Russia’s essentially bloodl...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Op-ed: When Will George W. Bush Be Tried for His War Crimes?

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We should take a small measure of satisfaction in former President George W. Bush’s cancellation of his trip to Switzerland after human-ri...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Bush: More Lies

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The incomparable Bruce Fein on George W. Bush's memoir: Former President Bush’s selective memoir is a little like Hamlet without the Pr...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Op-Ed: Blood on His Hands

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One need not have been a fan of Saddam to see that the invasion/occupation has been a catastrophe for the Iraqi people. Large numbers of t...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

Charge Him

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George W. Bush writes in his new memoir that he authorized the water-boarding of war-on-terror prisoners. Water-boarding is a crime under US...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

A Nobel Prize in Physics for George W. Bush

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He invented a perpetual motion machine: the war on terror. Prosecuting the war produces new "terrorists" who in turn justify furth...
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Saturday, July 03, 2010

When Is Torture Not Torture?

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When the U.S. government says it's not. Glenn Greenwald brings to our attention a study by Harvard Kennedy School students (pdf) showi...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Did Bush & Co. Do Medical Research on Detainees?

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As time goes by, the record of the Bush administration gets worse and worse. It could turn out that the most egregious offense of the Bush-...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Any Doubts about which is the Roguest Nation?

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From Physicians for Human Rights : In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals' involvement in the CIA'...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Prosecute Bush

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From Dan Froomkin: George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded -- and would do it...