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A Question for Dick Cheney: Should We Now Waterboard Tiller's Murderer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh, Ticking Time Bomb, Abortion Doctor, Cheney, Violence, Journalist, Late Term Abortion, Scott Roeder, Media, Journalism, Dick Cheney, Bush, George Tiller, Threat, Elf, Liz Cheney, Domestic Terrorism, Earth Liberation Front, Enhanced Interrogation, Abortion, Tiller, Abortion Clinic, Technique, Terrorism, Terrorist, Dr. Tiller, Murder, Chris Weigant, Waterboarding, Roeder, Domestic Terrorist, Torture, Mcveigh, Politics News

Roeder is claiming the now-infamous "ticking time bomb" scenario of what can only be termed domestic terrorism. Doesn't this mean that he should immediately be waterboarded?

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Bush's Excellent Speech in Cairo -- What Might Have Been

Steven Waldman | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Islam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama Cairo Speech, Terrorism, Bush, Obama Mideast Trip, World News

Obama's speech reminds us that 9/11 needn't have led to a conflict between the West and Islam. It's a reminder of the road not taken.

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Israel: Bush Officials Agreed To Settlement Building

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Obama Settlements, Bush, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Israel Bush, Israel Settlements, Obama Israel, World News

JERUSALEM Senior Israeli officials expressed irritation on Wednesday that President Obama had declined to acknowledge what they called clear understa...

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Presidential Library Clash Could Put Bush Under Oath

AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: George W. Bush, Bush, President Bush, Southern Methodist University, Gary Vodicka, Texas, Smu, Bush Presidential Library, Politics News

DALLAS — A Texan is trying to put a former president under oath and find out what he knew and when he knew it. But the issue isn't national secu...

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No Way Around an Investigation in Moving Forward

Morton H. Halperin | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Obama, Bush, Torture Memos, CIA Interrogation, Truth Commission, Torture, Politics News

The American public should hear directly, in open-door hearings, from victims of the detention, rendition, and torture.

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Bush Still Screening Audience Questions

Think Progress | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ex-President-Bush, Bush, Pre-Screening Question, George W. Bush, Politics News

hroughout George W. Bush's presidency, his handlers always made a special effort to ensure his appearances with regular Americans were scripted in suc...

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Colin Powell Should Say Good Riddance to the GOP

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, President Obama, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Michael Steele, Gop, Rush Limbaugh, Iraq, Presidency, Politics News

Powell's well-timed and publicized knock of Cheney, Limbaugh, and hard core party regulars simply further enshrines him as the GOP's odd man out.

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Iraq as a Holy War: Why Praying for Divine Support Is a Bad Idea

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, God, War, Crusades, Christianity, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Prayer, Holy Wars, Bush, Politics News

Nothing could be more hazardous as a basis for international affairs than relying on God for guidance. The past eight years offer evidence for that conclusion.

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Hooray for Emission Curbs

Diane Francis | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Saudis, Gasoline, Mexico, Green, Green News, Oil Prices, Cars, Green Energy, China, Detroit Bailout, Fuel Emissions, Bush, Green News

America finally has a smart leader, not a good old boy from Texas and his sidekick who were in the hip pockets of the Saudis and oil interests at home...

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"The Hannitus"

Dave Hackel | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teleprompter, Pelosi, Clinton, Giuliani, Hannity, Wind, Zoology, Ventura, Bush, Rove, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Friel, Political Humor, Waterboarding, Politics News

They're known for their closed minds and their unparalleled ability to continuously perpetuate deception by spinning, backpedaling and talking over all other animals in their proximity.

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Missing Bush E-Mails Won't Be Released, Court Says

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Emails Court, White House Office of Administration, Bush Emails, Missing Bush Emails, Bush, President George W. Bush, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails from the Bush Whi...

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Obama Really Had No Choice on Torture Pictures

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Army, Torture Photos, Cia, Bush, National Security, Iraqi Prisoners, Terrorism, Interrogation, President Obama, Gop, Military Preparedness, John McCain, Politics News

Obama's decision was based on a recognition that he's a young, untested, and perceived liberal Democrat, and therefore widely suspected as weak on national security and military toughness.

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Bush's Afterlife In Texas

Newsweek | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Afterlife, Bush, George W. Bush, Ex-President Bush, Former President Bush, Bush After the Presidency, Bush in Texas, Politics News

Patrick Bibb, a 19-year-old from Dallas, glanced at his cell phone. He was in the middle of his economics class at Texas Christian University on a Feb...

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Anything Less Than Absolute Moral Clarity from Democrats Will Enshrine Bush's Abuses

Peter Daou | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Bush, Torture, Progressives, George W. Bush, Bush Torture, Progressive Community, Bush Torture Memos, Politics News

Failing to make a clean break from the Bush years will deprive America of the one thing it needs most: an affirmation of the rule of law and the consequent reclaiming of moral authority.

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First Milestone Approaches In Iraq Withdrawal Timetable

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Sectarian Violence, President Obama, Troops, Timetable, Sectarian, Obama, US Troops, Awakening, Shiite, Withdrawal, Bush, Military, Surge, Sofa, Kurds, Oil Revenues, Security, June 30, Article 24, Acceptible Level of Violence, War, Timeline, Status of Forces Agreement, American Troops, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Awakening Councils, Deadline, Combat Troops, Chris Weigant, Oil, Iraq, Maliki, Mosul, Timetable for Withdrawal, Cities, Sunni, World News

America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.

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Pelosi The Enabler

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Cheney, Bush, Zubaydah, Nancy Pelosi, 9/11, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News

By acquiescing to the cover-up of unpleasant truths in the treatment of prisoners, Pelosi contributed to the betrayal of the ideal of public accountability that is the bedrock of our system of governance.

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An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Troops, War, Ireland, Obama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush, Politics News

If, as you said at the D.C. Hilton this weekend, you and Congress serve at "the pleasure of the American people," then you must bring our troops home. That is the people's desire, and that must be our elected leaders' objective.

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A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as...Liberal

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Anwr, Climate Chagne, Mccain, Obama, Morality, Torture, Bush, Politics News

We should really abandon the archaic monikers of liberal and conservative or left-wing and right-wing. I propose using different terminology that is less constraining.

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Killing People vs Aborting Fetuses: An Open Letter to Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Notre Dame, Abortion, Prostitution, Obama, Iraq Casualties, Bush, Harvard Law, Harvard, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Politics News

Like you, the church seems much more concerned with the survival of fetuses and "possible fetuses" than with human beings.

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Buchanan Made The GOP a Heavily White Party

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Sr, Reagan, Politics, Bush, Heavily White Party, Blacks, Nixon, Michael Steele, Souther Strategy, Gop, Racism, Eisenhower, Pat Buchanan, Minorities, Politics News

As long as the GOP has its grip on the millions that made and kept the GOP a heavily white party, it's far from dead as a party.

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Media 100 Days: The Laughs Have Just Begun!

Bill Mann | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Cspan, Bush, Media News

The GOP/Fox News clown show has been very funny indeed, and it shows no sign of winding down. Many laughs remain.

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Torture is a B*llsh!t Machine!

Hal Sparks | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Lies, Cia, Bush, Cheney, Torture, Hal Sparks, Politics News

It becomes clearer by the day that truth was never the goal of the Bush administration's use of torture and they were in need of false information that was shaped by torture.

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100 Day Silliness

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Fdr, First 100 Days, Bush, Clinton, Presidency, President Obama, Hundred Days, 100 Days, Politics News

Obama is well aware that the 100 days burden weighs heavier on him than any other president in modern times. He's young, liberal, untested, and black.

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Moral Relativism: A Little Torture is Just Fine?

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Iraq, Bush, Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Only appeal to moral relativism can be used to justify waterboarding. Some elements of morality must be basic to humanity across time and across cultures. Torture can never be explained away.

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