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"Bush Pardons Everyone Who Ever Worked in His Administration"

David Latt | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Ted Stevens Indicted, Presidential Pardons, President Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News
David Latt

Before he leaves office, will President Bush use his power to pardon to shield the members of his administration from legal action? If so, his pardons will be a last effort to avoid accountability.

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Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration Iraq, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, Military Heavy, George Bush Iraq, Military Consumerism, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama Administration, Admiral Mike Mullen, Iraq Withdrawal, US Military Bases Iraq, War in Iraq, Military Lite, Iraqi Base, Barack Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan, Robert Gates, Nouri Al-Maliki, Obama Transition Team, Bush Administration Iraq, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Military Stuff in Iraq, Iraq, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

In a nutshell, the Pentagon's argument couldn't be simpler or more red-bloodedly American: We have too much stuff there to leave Iraq any time soon.

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Why Guantanamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Kandahar, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, War on Terror, Terrorism, Unitary Executive Theory, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo Uighurs, Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, New York Times, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.

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"New America" = Gone OLD Party

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Election Reaction, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, New America, Gone Old Party, Old America, Republican Future, Southern Strategy, Republican Party, Patrick Buchanan, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Prior to the start of the war in Iraq in 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a distinction between "Old Europe" that opposed the America...

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My Way, as sung by George W. Bush

Erica Heller | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Carla Bruni, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Mission Accomplished, George W. Bush, Entertainment News
Erica Heller

Regrets, I've had a few; The "Mission Accomplished" banner was certainly loony. Not every dream came true, I don't wake up with Carla Bruni.

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Will Obama's First Term Really Just be a Hybrid of Clinton III and GW Bush III?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Economic Policy, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Neoliberalism, Timothy Geithner, Rubinomics, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Larry Summers, Obama Treasury Secretary, Obama's Economic Team, Obama's Economic Plan, Larry Summers Treasury Secretary, Politics News
Steve Clemons

There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. Larry will have to prove to us that he is different and not the harbinger of Clinton Term III.

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Veterans' Families Cast a Vote for Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Military Families, Iraq War, Patriotism, John McCain, Gold Star Families, Paul Wolfowitz, Vietnam, Veterans Issues, Donald Rumsfeld, War in Afghanistan, Invasion of Iraq, Barack Obama, Veterans, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

I previously wrote an article about those who have served in our military, and the challenges facing them and their families. At that time, I intervi...

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100 Million Suspects

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy Is Messy, Acorn, John McCain, Locke, Donald Rumsfeld, Sousveillance, Democracy, Election Protection Wiki, Voting Problems, Hobbes, Barack Obama, Politics News
RJ Eskow

In the end, the decision couldn't be clearer. This election is a referendum on trusting the electorate. It's a referendum on democracy itself.

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Sympathy for "W", Not For Voters

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, W, Oliver Stone, War, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Terrorist, Terrorism, Movie, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Stone's movie is kind to "W" in that it makes a case that George spent most of his life swimming in water too deep for his swimming skills. The tragedy is that voters never recognized that.

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Rumsfeld Getting $46,790 Portrait On Taxpayers' Dime

The Washington Post | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, White House, Portraits, Economy, Politics News

Behind every great man or woman in Washington there is a great painting. As the Bush presidency draws to a close, portrait artists can expect a surge ...

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New Pentagon Report Slams Missile Defense Agency

Joe Cirincione | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Poland, Missile Defense, Czech Republic, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

The study says that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)'s rush to deploy something, anything, has come at the expense of research and careful development of weapons that work.

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Colin Powell, United Nations, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Human Rights, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Security Council, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Election 2008, Torture, Convention Against Torture, Unsc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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America's Shadow Government: Part Two

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Shadow Government, Cog, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

This database reportedly contains the names of Americans who, "often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated."

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Only 20 Presidents Had More Experience Than Obama

John K. Wilson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Presidential History, Experience, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Bush Administration, Judgment, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Campaign 2008, Obama Experience, Home News
John K. Wilson

Even if Obama were inexperienced, that would be no reason to vote against him. History shows us that an experienced politician usually makes for a lousy president. In fact, the most consistent variable to predict a failed presidency is experience.

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America's Shadow Government: Part One

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Shadow Government, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dwight D. Eisenhower, COG, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

We are, for all intents and purposes, one terrorist attack away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows.

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Top Bush Officials Participated In Torture Talks, New Documents Show

NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft Waterboarding, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, John Ashcroft, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency ...

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'DC 9/11' is the New 'Reefer Madness'

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 10.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Bush, Lionel Chetwynd, DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, Reefer Madness, Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, Oliver Stone, Donald Rumsfeld, Snl, Phil Hartman, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Football metaphors abound. Boys who never went to war get to use the words of war. This is a movie that actually celebrates the worst foreign policy decisions we've ever made.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Book: Rumsfeld Made Rice Cry In The White House

Daily Telegrah | Tim Shipman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld Made Rice Cry, Donald Rumsfeld, Politics News

Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist th...

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Turning Poetry Into Music

John Lundberg | Posted 10.15.2008 | Living

Read More: The Tyger, The Poetic Life, Bryant Kong, Hart Seely, Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Donald Rumsfeld, Poetry, Living News
John Lundberg

Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled...

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From the Day Terrorists Attacked My Neighborhood to Now

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, September 11th, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Living News
Joyce McFadden

I never thought that my daughter's school would turn into an Emergency Command Center, and the school beside hers a morgue.

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Plain Food, Please

Amy Ephron | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Mt. Misery, Key Lime Cafe, John McCain, Creationism, The Inn at Perry Cabin, Soft-Shelled Crab, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, Sara Palin, Donald Rumsfeld, Food, St Michael's, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Choice, Living News
Amy Ephron

We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner.

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Joe Knows National Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Missile Shield, Missile Defense, Terrorism, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Joe Biden, Biden National Security, Obama National Security, Biden Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.

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Georgia: What a Difference a Gates Makes

Richard Silverstein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia Georgia War, Putin Georgia Fighting, Realist Foreign Policy, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Robert Gates Russia Georgia War, Politics News
Richard Silverstein

After reading statements from Bush and Secretary of Defense Gates, how thankful I am that the latter is running defense policy and not his predecessor Rumsfeld.

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How the McCain Campaign is Like the Iraq War

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

Looking over John McCain's campaign strategy, you'd swear Donald Rumsfeld was in charge. It has the same mission -- Victory in Iraq -- the same disastrous planning and the same chaotic results.

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