George W Bush

Jersualem Put Into Darkness So That Bush Can Enjoy Sunrise

AFP | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lights Out Jerusalem, Olmert Israel, Bush Administration, Bush Israel, Israel, Ehud Olmert, George W. Bush, Politics News

Lights in the Old City of Jerusalem will be turned off before dawn this week so visiting US President George W. Bush can get a better view of the sun ...

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Pentagon Won't Probe KBR Rape Charges

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Kbr, Kbr Rape Case, Iraq War Contractors, Iraq and Pentagon, Jamie Leigh Jones, George W. Bush, KBR Rape Allegations, Halliburton/Kbr, Iraq, War in Iraq, Warwire, Politics News

The Defense Department's top watchdog has declined to investigate allegations that an American woman working under an Army contract in Iraq was raped ...

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Hoping For, and With, Obama [Updated]

Chris Durang | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dennis Kucinich, George W. Bush, Iowa, New Hampshire, John Edwards, Christopher Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Democrats, Barack Obama, 2008 Election, Barack Obama New Hampshire, Dodd Filibuster, New Hampshire Primary, Iowa Caucuses, Dodd Telecom Amnesty, Politics News
Chris Durang

Well, the polls were wrong, and clearly the American voters want to keep looking at the candidates; and, in the morning light, I think that's a good thing.

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Bush's Greatest Military Success, And Why He is Hiding It

Hal Donahue | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Injured Soldiers, Atul Gawande, George W. Bush, Walter Reed Closing, Donald Rumsfeld, Brownie, Tenant, David Chu, Walter Reed, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Hal Donahue

The military serving at Walter Reed were and are wildly successful and the number of combat injured who died fell from 25% to 10%. Their reward for this achievement? The entire team is being dismantled.

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Pakistan, Palestine, and Israel -- and Bush's Will

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Peace Process, Israel, Middle East Politics, Theodore Herzl, George W. Bush, Politics News
MJ Rosenberg

Take pretty much any group of Muslims -- Arabs, Iranians, South or East Asians, whatever -- and the one subject on which there is near universal agreement is the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

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Defying U.S. Plan, Prison Expands In Afghanistan

NY Times | Tim Golden | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan Detainees, Warwire, War on Terror, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Prisoner of War, Afghanistan War, Politics News

As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down a larger and more...

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George McGovern: Time To Impeach Bush

Washington Post | George McGovern | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Articles of Impeachment, Impeach Bush, Democrats Impeachment, Impeachment, Cheney, George W. Bush, Impeach Cheney, George Mcgovern, Dick Cheney, Politics News

As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to ur...

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Video of Sleeping Guards Shakes Nuclear Industry

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bush Administration, Union of Concerned Scientists, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, George W. Bush, Nuclear Energy Oversight, CBS News, Fbi, Politics News

Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvan...

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Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Erik Prince, Barack Obama, Fdr, George W. Bush, Robert F. Kennedy, Truman, Benazir Bhutto, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

It took forty years but perhaps today with Barack Obama we are seeing the continuation of the project that Robert Kennedy started in 1968.

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President Pockets Troop Bonuses

Jon Soltz | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Veto, New Hampshire Primary, Military, Troops, George W. Bush, Politics News
Jon Soltz

I would hope that every single presidential candidate of both parties would denounce the president for pocket-vetoing legislation that gives our troops the help they need.

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Washington Post Greenwashes Bush

David Roberts | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Green, Environment, Bush's Legacy, Environmentalism, George W. Bush, Peter Baker, Bush Global Warming, Bali, Washington Post, Bush Kyoto, Bush Goes Green, Politics News
David Roberts

The only thing "getting greener" is Bush's rhetoric. He's not doing anything greener, beyond the minimum necessary to create some positive spin. He shows zero signs of changing that course.

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Sleepy Bush: President Won't Stay Up For Iowa Results

Associated Press | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Iowa, Fred Thompson Iowa, Ron Paul Iowa, George Bush Sleep, Mitt Romney Iowa Caucus, Iowa Caucuses, George W. Bush, Romney Huckabee Iowa, John Mccain Iowa, Politics News

The Iowa caucuses apparently won't outrank shuteye for President Bush. Asked if the president planned to stay up to find out who wins the opening con...

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Karl Rove Responds To Vanity Fair Questionnaire

Vanity Fair | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2004 Election, Vanity Fair Karl Rove, Proust Interview, Karl Rove, Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, George W. Bush, George Bush, Politics News

A principal architect of the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, 57, has charted a long course from the internship he landed with the ...

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Iran's Supreme Leader: US Could Be "Useful" To Us In The Future

Reuters | Zahra Hosseinian | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: US-Iran Relations, Iran and United States, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iraq Supreme Leader, George W. Bush, Politics News

Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday restoring ties with the United States now would harm the Islamic state, but he did not rule it out in the futur...

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Veterans and Members of Military in Iowa Look for Change: Part 2

Dan Treul | Posted 01.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Iowa, u.s. Middle East Policy, Vfw, Clinton, Mccain, Middle East, Obama, George Bush, Iowa American Legion, American Legion, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iowa Vfw, Air Force, George W. Bush, Iowa National Guard, Preemptive Interventionism, 2008 Campaign, John Edwards, U.S. Army, John McCain, Preemptive War, Edwards, Huckabee, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Presidential Race, u.s. Airforce, Preemption, Iowa Veterans, 2008 Election, Caucuses, Veteran Voters, Presidential Campaign 2008, u.s. Foreign Policy, Army, Barack Obama, Iowa Military, Presidential Campaign, Iowa Caucuses, Mike Huckabee, Iraq War, Military Vote, Iraq, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Iowa Military Vote, National Guard, Home News
Dan Treul

By Dan Treul Al Cannistraro, Jacqueline Cotrell, Christine Escobar, Kim Farris, Mike Germain, Kerri Glover, Matthew Moll, Gale Walden, Ellen Emerson ...

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24,000 civilian Iraqi deaths in 2007

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Bush Administration, Warwire, Success of the Surge, Iraq Death Toll, George W. Bush, Bush Administration Iraq, Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq Civilian Deaths, Politics News

US-led coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group m...

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A European View on Obama, Clinton, Giuliani et al

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Europe, Mick Jagger, African-Americans, Pakistan, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, 9/11, Christoph Blocher, Same-Sex Marriage, Cecilia Sarkozy, Muslim, John Kerry, John Edwards, Racism, Health Care, Abortion, Turkey, Housing Market, Mitt Romney, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Carla Bruni, Caucuses, Tom Tancredo, Barack Obama, New York, Francois Mitterrand, Bible, Great Britain, Fred Thompson, Donald Trump, Jacques Chirac, Judith Nathan, Hillary Clinton, India, China, Gay Marriage, Mormons, Eric Clapton, United Kingdom, Economy, Iraq, Immigration, Catholic Church, Unemployment, Gay Rights, Mike Huckabee, George H.W. Bush, New Hampshire, Western Europe, Republican Presidential Candidate, Italy, Bill Clinton, Islam, Germany, John McCain, Primary, Xenophobia, Segolene Royal, Gay, Civil Unions, Nicolas Sarkozy, France, Economic Slowdown, Religion, Plastic Surgery, Rudy Giuliani, Homelessness, Corporations, Silvio Berlusconi, Iowa, 2008 Presidential Race, Swiss People's Party, Asia, Turkish, Switzerland, Asian, Arab, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

After a couple of years of political transition that have seen Europe's own warmongers/Bush poodles and corrupt leaders retiring or getting kicked out of office, there is eager anticipation for the departure of Bush.

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Iowa: It's Emotions, Stupid!

Peter Emerson and Michael Maslansky | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drew Westen, Frank Luntz, 2008 Election, Iowa Caucuses, Iowa, Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan, National Security, John Kerry, Barack Obama Iowa, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, John Kerry 2004, Politics News
Peter Emerson and Michael Maslansky

It will not be the experience of a candidate; it will be the emotion of the voter that decides this election. Republicans learned this far more quickly than Democrats.

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Maxims of Peace and War

David Bromwich | Posted 01.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, 2008 Election, George W. Bush, Politics News
David Bromwich

Act now, justify later. If you committed the crime, deny it. Divide and conquer. How many acts of the present administration can it be said were guided by these bad maxims?

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2007 - Political Winners and Losers

Bob Burnett | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2007, Hillary Clinton, General Petraeus, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, 2008 New Year, Politics News
Bob Burnett

In 2007, the big losers were mainstream Americans. The war dragged on and the economy faltered; meanwhile, we were confronted with the daunting twin challenges of global climate change and reduced energy supplies.

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Another White House Departure

Politico | Patrick O'Connor | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, Democratic Congress, Congress, Social Security, George W. Bush, Candi Wolff Resigns, White House Administration, Candi Wolff, White House Liasion, Iraq War Funding, White House Resignations, Defense Appropriations, Politics News

Candi Wolff on Friday concludes her three-year run as the president's top congressional liaison after helping George W. Bush navigate the rockiest str...

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The New Dark Ages

E. A. Hanks | Posted 12.28.2007 | Living

Read More: Benazir Bhutto Assassination, George W. Bush, Bhutto Pakistan, Bhutto Assassination Blog Posts, Benazir Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto Killed, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Living News
E. A. Hanks

It's bad. Everything everywhere seems bad. I can't help but feel like we're headed into another year of the New Dark Ages. War, famine, pestilence and plague, you name it, we've got it.

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The Most Inappropriate Bush War Smirk of 2007

Bob Cesca | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Iraq, Bush Smirks, Bush War Smirks, George W. Bush, Politics News
Bob Cesca

The traditional media has never really challenged the president on his grotesquely inappropriate reactions to serious issues -- especially Iraq.

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Bush Signs $555 Billion Spending Bill

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Warwire, Spending Bill, Bush Signs Spending Bill, Iraq War Funding, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Bush Congress, War in Iraq, Congressional Spending, George Bush, President Bush, War on Terror, War Funding Bill, Politics News

President Bush, still voicing concern about special project spending by Congress, signed a $555 billion bill Wednesday that funds the Iraq war well in...

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Will Brattleboro Indict Bush?

Dan DeWalt | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Vermont, Impeachment, George W. Bush, Politics News
Dan DeWalt

Let Brattleboro show the nation that in the current course of events, it has become necessary for Americans to take action.

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