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Playing Politics With Presidential Medals

David Macaray | Posted 02.18.2012

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The day will surely come when some future president awards the Medal of Freedom to George W. Bush. It will happen. But why on earth would an ex-president need the same medal that Richard Petty got?

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Libya and Obama's Embrace of the Imperial Presidency

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama believes that as commander-in-chief he has the power to order the U.S. military into battle. But by attacking Libya he has greatly expanded the unchecked executive powers that Bush's excesses and overreach established.

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Top 7 Underemployed Former Bush Officials

Paul Tullis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ahmed Chalabi's Victory

Aram Roston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank Fraud, Fraud, De-Baathification Law, Ahmad Chalabi, Ray Odierno, Ahmed Chalabi, George W. Bush, Paul Bremer, Iraq Elections, Iraq, Chalabi, World News

Chalabi still has more loyal friends in the US then most people imagine. Chalabi's US representative insisted to me last week that Chalabi was the best friend America has in Iraq, a sorry thought.

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My Testimony on 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Ahmad Chalabi, Bush Administration Torture, Saddam Hussein, David Petraeus, Paul Bremer, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Torture, Iraq, General Petraeus, Chalabi, Torture, World News

In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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Iraq's "National Sovereignty Day" is U.S.-Style Hallmark Hype

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Oil, Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Sovereignty, Maj. Gen. Daniel Bolger, US Long-Term Iraq Occupation, Patrick Cockburn, Iraq War, Iraq Oil Privatization, Iraq Occupation, Paul Bremer, Iraq Withdrawal, National-Sovereignty-Day, Iraq, Iraq Green Zone, Barack Obama, Obama Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, World News

The puppet government in Iraq has named June 30th "National Sovereignty Day." This is U.S.-style Hallmark hype and will remain so until every last occupation soldier leaves Iraqi soil.

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Meet The Real Press

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fourth estate has abdicated its responsibilities to Stewart, Letterman, Olbermann, Maddow, Campbell Brown and the bloggers on the internet.

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The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Unlike earlier failed presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, Bush does not seem to acknowledge or even recognize the destruction that he has wrought.

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The Folly of de-Clintonification

Jared Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: De-Baathification Law, Clinton, Obama's Cabinet, Paul Bremer, Obama, Obama Transition, Baathists, Iraq, Politics News

As Barack Obama goes about forming a cabinet, cries have gone up that Obama is committing some kind of sin by appointing a number of people who worked in the Clinton Administration.

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Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Stiglitz Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, Paul Bremer, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Naomi Klein, Bush Iran, George Bush Legacy, Iraq Bases, McCain Iraq, Iraq, Politics News

Operation Iraqi Freedom was never about liberating the people of Iraq but instead about liberating its assets for foreign exploitation.

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Architect Of Iraq War Strategy Blames Powell In New Memoir

Washington Post | Thomas E. Ricks and Karen DeYoung | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, ...

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Bremer Hits Back At Criticism For Disbanding Iraq's Army: Bush Said I Had His "Full Support"

NY Times | L. PAUL BREMER III | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Iraq, 2003 Iraq Invasion, Paul Bremer, Iraqi Army, Politics News

It has become conventional wisdom that the decision to disband Saddam Hussein's army was a mistake, was contrary to American prewar planning and was a...

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