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“The Gall Of Dick Cheney”: His Whole Legacy Is Wrapped In Wrong And Written...
The situation in Iraq is truly worrisome, as militants threaten to tear the country asunder and disrupt the fragile, short-lived period absent all-out war there. We have strategic interests in...
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“What We’ve Paid For War In Afghanistan And Iraq”: Apparently, ‘Mission...
War is hell. Major General Harold Greene could certainly tell you all about that — but, sadly, he’s dead. On August 5, General Greene became the highest-ranking American soldier to die in our...
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“Always Ready For Closeups”: Dick Cheney Is Still A Petty Hypocrite
Former vice president Dick Cheney resurfaced again this week, to sharply criticize President Barack Obama for being on vacation when ISIS murdered American journalist James Foley. During a Wednesday...
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“Some People Never Learn”: What Happens When You Listen To Conservatives And...
It’s surprisingly easy to compose a list of the 25 stupidest things Bush administration officials said about the invasion of Iraq, and no such list can be remotely comprehensive. For example, the list...
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“de-Baathification Program”: Bush/Cheney Created Conditions That Led Directly...
It takes a lot of gall for people like Dick Cheney to utter even one critical word about President Obama’s strategy to eliminate the threat of ISIL in the Middle East. In fact, it was the unnecessary...
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“A Future Cheney Could Do It All Again”: The U.S. Will Torture Again—And...
Reliably enough, out came Dick Cheney to trash the Senate torture report and to say of the use of torture: “I’d do it again in a minute.” None of us doubt that he would. But the more interesting and...
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“Whose Values Did The Torture Program Uphold?”: We Can Press For Those...
Who are we? That’s one question begged by the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s torture of detainees after Sept. 11. There are other questions, but this may be the key one. And it is...
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“Damn Ebenezer Cheney!”: The Ghost Of Christmas Past
All the hullaballoo over the United States government’s’ use of torture as an officially-sanctioned intelligence gathering process was bad enough. It brought back memories of a shameful period in...
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“The Country Paid Heavily For The Risks He Took”: It’s Not Too Soon To Judge...
In the six years since he left the White House, President George W. Bush has often claimed that it is too early for historical judgments about his presidency. “It’s too soon to say how many of my...
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“The Latest Illustration Of Delusional Paranoia”: Dick Cheney’s Ongoing...
Every so often Dick Cheney will appear in public to vocalize his latest irritable mental gesture. Today he appeared with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt to assert the following: “I vacillate between...
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“The Swaggering Idiot Returns”: George W. Bush Emerges From Artistic Exile To...
Arguably the best thing George W. Bush ever did for his party was to keep quiet in the years following his presidency. Winning elections in a political environment shaped by Bush’s legacy – a bloody...
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“Fraternity Of Failure”: GOP Men And Women United By A Shared History Of...
Jeb Bush wants to stop talking about past controversies. And you can see why. He has a lot to stop talking about. But let’s not honor his wish. You can learn a lot by studying recent history, and you...
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“Errors And Lies”: The Iraq War Wasn’t An Innocent Mistake; The Bush...
Surprise! It turns out that there’s something to be said for having the brother of a failed president make his own run for the White House. Thanks to Jeb Bush, we may finally have the frank discussion...
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“Gravely Wrong And Unapologetic”: Neoconservatives; That Iraq Question...
The Iraq hypotheticals currently ensnaring the Republican Party’s presidential candidates are “asinine” and the worst of “gotcha journalism,” argue some of the neoconservative thinkers who advocated...
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“The Politics Of War”: We Endanger The Peace And Confuse All Issues When We...
This Memorial Day the nation remembers all those people who died while serving in the American armed forces. More than 1,316,000 military personnel have died during military conflicts in this nation’s...
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“Just Pretend 9/11 Never Happened”: Dick Cheney Boasts Of 7 1/2-Year Record...
Dick Cheney, reports The Wall Street Journal’s Patrick O’Connor, has a new book coming out in September, as well as “a Darth Vader trailer-hitch cover, a nod to his alter-ego from the Bush days,” and...
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“Forgetting A Little Detail Called… His Brother”: Jeb Bush Is Even Nuttier...
Donald Trump’s remarks about Megyn Kelly still make him the most vulgar of the Republican presidential candidates. But he is no longer the nuttiest. That distinction was claimed by Jeb Bush in a speech...
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“If Cheney Wants A Conversation About Iran…”: He Needs To Appreciate The Role...
Even most Republicans will concede that the GOP campaign to derail the international nuclear agreement with Iran is going poorly, and barring any major developments, the diplomatic deal will move...
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“Cleaning Up The Last Bush/Cheney Mess”: There Is Almost Never A Way To Do So...
One of the sad realities of the Obama presidency is that he and his administration have had to spend so much of their time cleaning up messes that were left by Bush and Cheney. I won’t try to capture...
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“A Very Different Dynamic”: The Difference Between Presidential Pride And...
At this point in the 2008 presidential race, a relatively crowded field of national Republican candidates was confronted with an unyielding reality: their party’s two-term president was deeply...
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