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The Israeli Generals Revolt

Joel Rubin | Posted 04.27.2012

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Israeli generals have had enough of the fear-inducing rhetoric from their prime minister. They want a rational debate in Israel about how best to handle the challenge posed by Iran.

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American 'Enemy Combatant' Seeks To Sue Rumsfeld For Torture -- Again

AP | MEG KINNARD | Posted 04.23.2012

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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A man held for years as an "enemy combatant" is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lawsuit accusing former Defense Secreta...

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Documents Show Debate Over 9/11 Remains Dumped In Landfill

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Newly released Pentagon documents show that Air Force officers debated briefly about burial at sea before concluding that 1,321 unidenti...

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Donald Rumsfeld Documentary Reportedly In The Works

Vulture | Posted 03.14.2012

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How will we remember Donald H. Rumsfeld? As “a ruthless little bastard” (as President Nixon once described him), who became Nixon’s anti-poverty...

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Blind Ambition

Gary Hart | Posted 04.09.2012

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Instead of endlessly and ineffectively interviewing the Santorums of the world, wouldn't it be interesting if just one of the Sunday morning talk programs rounded up George W. Bush and his cohorts to hold them accountable for the monumental act of folly that is still unfolding in Iraq?

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Iraq, Free Trade and America's Efforts to Remake the World

David Paul | Posted 02.17.2012

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If our experiment in spreading democratic freedom across the Muslim world seems like it may have rough moments, we need only look back at our now-decades old experiment in spreading economic freedom, known as free trade.

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Former CIA Director's Death Raises Questions, Divides Family

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A new film on the life and death of master spy and former CIA director William E. Colby, created by his son, raises the question of whet...

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Occupy Wall Street, Faces Of Zuccotti Park: The Woman In Pink

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.01.2011

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Melanie Butler was watching a news clip about Occupy Wall Street in late September when she noticed that all of the demonstrators talking to the repor...

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Neoconservatism Isn't Dead -- In Fact, It's Prepping For A Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.28.2011

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The Republican Party is divided like never before on the issue of U.S. foreign policy, with rifts over foreign engagement, Pentagon budgeting and the ...

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What Would Happen If Republicans Controlled NPR...

Rob Taub | Posted 01.17.2012

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John Boehner hosts Small Things Considered: This just in: Evidence for Impeachment -- Obama's Irish heritage wasn't his great, great, great grandfath...

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It's Finally Over -- and It Was Wrong

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.27.2011

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The initial feelings that rushed over me after hearing the announcement that we're pulling out of Iraq were of deep relief. But then they turned to deep sadness over the terrible cost of a war that was always wrong: intellectually, politically, strategically and, above all, morally.

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Donald Rumsfeld Raising Money For Rep. Allen West

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be a "special guest" at a fundraiser for Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) next...

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Why Amnesty International is a Shadow of its Old Self

Anthony Amore | Posted 12.12.2011

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Alex Neve, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, is calling for the Canadian government to arrest former President George W. Bush whe...

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WATCH: Donald Rumsfeld Has Insanely Contentious Interview With Al Jazeera Reporter

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 12.04.2011

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On the same day that he praised Al Jazeera, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld had an incredibly contentious interview with the network. (Watch ...

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WATCH: Rumsfeld Bashes New York Times

Posted 11.14.2011

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Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discussed his recently announced decision to cancel his Ne...

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Donald Rumsfeld: Why I Kept The Pentagon Open On 9/11

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Then-Defense Department Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he did not close the Pentagon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to send a mess...

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History Can Still Matter in America

Kevin Bunkley | Posted 11.02.2011

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We're heading toward an environment where myth is repackaged as fact.

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Court Upholds Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 10.08.2011

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CHICAGO — A lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of personal responsibility for U.S. forces allegedly torturing two America...

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George W. Bush's Debt, Deficit and Legacy

Robbie Gennet | Posted 10.04.2011

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It is time we shine a spotlight on the damaging policies of President Bush and the Republicans and rescue our country from its collective amnesia before Bush's true legacy -- nearly bankrupting the most powerful country in the world -- brings us to our knees.

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Judge Allows American To Sue Donald Rumsfeld Over Torture Claims

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 10.04.2011

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NEDRA PICKLER / AP WASHINGTON -- A judge is allowing an Army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq ...

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Obama's Bush-League World

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.11.2011

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Americans seem to have turned the page on Bush and his cronies. They may have disappeared from our lives, but the post-9/11 world they had such a mad hand in creating hasn't.

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Robert Gates: America's Best Defense Secretary?

Asher Smith | Posted 08.22.2011

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By providing a model for effective Pentagon administration suitable for emulation, Gates has accomplished far more, under more challenging circumstances, than virtually all of his predecessors.

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Donald Rumsfeld: Being Waterboarded Is Better Than Being Killed by a Drone

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 08.01.2011

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"Three prisoners have been waterboarded but not at Guantanamo and not by the Department of Defense. They were waterboarded with the authority of President Bush and the approval of the Department of Justice."

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Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Made The Right Decision On Bin Laden Raid

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 07.20.2011

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Bush administration would have used the same strategy to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden had those circumstances arisen y...

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Republicans On Torture, Post-Osama Bin Laden: Defending Against Prosecution?

Carla Seaquist | Posted 07.10.2011

In these days since President Barack Obama announced that a SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, notice how quickly Re...

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