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Cheney, Bush Officials, Considered Using The Military To Arrest Terror Suspects In U.S.

AP | MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in...

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Obama's Health Plan: We're Being Bamboozled

John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Barack Obama, LA Times, White House, Biden, Big Business, Pharmaceutical Industry, Cheney, Obama Health Care, Big Government, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Critics who refer to Obama's proposed public health plan as socialism have got it all wrong. The menace we face is the triumph of corporatism; the corporate state wedded to the government.

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Hey War Hawks: What Are You Thinking These Days?

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liberation, Politics, Iraq, War, Cheney, Hawks, Iraq Liberators, Iraq Insurgency, Iraq War, Tim Russert, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Dick Cheney may have thought we'd be welcomed as liberators, but anyone who compared the Middle East of 2003 to Europe before World War Two was off the rails.

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An Endstate Strategy in Afghanistan, Not Exit Strategy

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Linda Sanchez, Pakistan, Barney Frank, Cheney, John Hall, Endstate Strategy, Afghanistan, Neoconservative, Holbrooke, Third Way, Exit Strategy, Politics News
Jonathan Morgenstein

Exit strategy implies that the top military priority is getting our troops out. An endstate strategy envisions what we want the conditions on the ground to look like and figures out how to get there.

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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Cheney Meant Well

Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Criminal law says that facts aren't enough to establish guilt. There also has to be mens rea -- a guilty mind. Here's the best I can do on Cheney's behalf: He meant well and he knew better.

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CIA Secret Program Was To Capture Or Kill Al Qaeda Operatives

Wall Street Journal | SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics

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A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to c...

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How Iceland's Lawyers Enabled Fraud

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Jackson, Legal Ethics, Lawyers, Legal-Ethics, Cheney, Iceland Economic Crisis, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, John Yoo, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Elvis Presley, Iceland Bankrupt, Dick Cheney, John Yoo Torture, John Yoo Memo, Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Banks, Investment Banks, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Ethics, Banks, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Iceland Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iceland Bank Crisis, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

The lack of clear ethical rules and the frontier justice mentality in Iceland continues to cause confusion and raise questions about the legal profession's ability to regulate itself in Iceland.

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Obama Learns the Bush Maneuver

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Mark Sanford, Obama, Unemployment, Cheney, Bush, John Boehner, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

The Democratic response to criticism was lifted directly from the Bush playbook. They are saying that without the stimulus things would be much worse.

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In Dependence Day 2009

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, American Revolution, US Military, Congress, Social Security, America, Economy, Cheney, George W. Bush, President Obama, Redistribution of Wealth, Obama, Democratic Party, Bush Tax Cuts, Dick Cheney, Deficit, Military, Wealth, Tax Cuts, Enlistment Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Republican Party, Taxes, Credit Crisis, Entitlement, Democrats, Fourth of July, Barack Obama, Iraq War, John Ensign, Federal Budget Deficit, Independence Day, Sarah Palin, Military Recruiting, Iraq, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.

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The Meaning of Treason

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communists, Nazis, Torture, Treason, Hannity, Cheney, 9/11, Rebecca West, Limbaugh, Beck, Bush, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

I first read Rebecca West's Meaning of Treason in the 1990s. At the time I was more interested in the looping grace of West's sentences than in h...

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Anne Dunev

Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.

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Missing the Point -- Again!

Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Mary Cheney, Liz Cheney, Staying Sane in a Crazy World, Cheney, Politics News
Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen

Mental health simply requires a high degree of consistency in one's thinking and whole lifestyle. There's just no way of having your cake and eat it, too!

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President Obama's FDR Problem

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

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Stephen C. Rose

President Obama is the first president in my memory to have the FDR problem. That problem in a word is hate. The reason is the same.

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Sam Stein

Liz Cheney On Iraq: "We Made Mistakes ... No Question About It"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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Liz Cheney admitted on Monday that when it came to her father's handling of the occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces, "certainly we made mistakes." "The...

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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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Congressman Ron Paul Talks Foreign Policy: New Face, Same Policy

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.

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When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

As recently as two weeks ago, Cheney was still banging the drum about Saddam's "known ties to Mideast terrorists." His ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour is historical revisionism at its most despicable.

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If You Want To Make An Omelette, You've Got To Torture Some Guys

Ross Hyzer | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: CIA Torture, Dick Cheney Torture, Cheney, Iraq-Al Qaeda Link, Iraq Al Qaeda Connection, Torture, Comedy News
Ross Hyzer

So let's all relax about all this torture stuff and just appreciate the fact that we live in a country founded on the idea of being able to do whatever you want all the time with no consequences whatsoever.

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Obama and Cheney: Dueling in Different Universes

Jim Selman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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Jim Selman

When people become polarized, there is no common ground from which to build a common future.

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"Daily Show" Duel: Dick Cheney Vs. Barack Obama (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.22.2009 | Comedy

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Jon Stewart looked at Dick Cheney and Barack Obama's back-to-back national security speeches last night and the media's boner over the easily juxtapos...

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A Dangerous Day for War On Terror

Julie Menin | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, War on Terror, Cheney, National Security, September 11th, Politics News
Julie Menin

Today was not a great day for the war on terror. Hearing these two dueling speeches by the President and former Vice President did not advance our g...

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Dick Cheney is Crazy. Really.

Jane Smiley | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Cheney Torture, Cheney, Cheney 9/11, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jane Smiley

We really need to begin seeing Cheney the way we see that paranoid old uncle we might have -- someone we should never ever listen to.

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Who Is This "Dick Cheeny" Guy and Why Should I Care What He Thinks?

David Rees | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Guantanamo, Bush Administration, Cheney, Cheeny, Gitmo, Guantanamo Detainees, Cheney Speech, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
David Rees

As far as I could tell, his speech was actually some weird kind of mouth-yoga where you keep returning to "9/11" position every thirty seconds.

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Dick Cheney Will Protect You, and Liberals Want Your First Born

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Obama, Saddam, Al Qaeda, Gitmo, Torture, Cheney, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Gop, Cheney Torture, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Did Cheney show a lack of commitment to national security by limiting the interrogation techniques to waterboarding?

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