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Helicopters, Cover-ups and War Crimes

This article is insane and I encourage all to read it. Essentially in return for fake “yellowcake” documents provided by the Italian government used to justify the Iraq war, Bush awarded a lucrative contract to an Italian company to produce the presidential helicopter, Marine One. I seriously hope Obama uses this opportunity to further expose [...]

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The President is “Very Disappointed”

Upon hearing the bailout failed to pass in the house: A White House spokesman said that President Bush was “very disappointed.” “There’s no question that the country is facing a difficult crisis that needs to be addressed,” Tony Fratto told reporters. He said the president will be meeting with members of his team later in [...]

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Bush’s War

An AMAZING 2-part (2-hour each) Frontline episode chronicling the Iraq war from 9/11 to today. From the Frontline website: From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge — for seven years, FRONTLINE [...]

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Is War With Iran an Inevitability?

From the LA Times: But, it was Fallon’s words on Iran policy that riled neoconservative White House and Beltway hawks. The Esquire article describes the conflict over Iran policy as a Manichaean fight between a Bush administration hellbent on confrontation and a Fallon equally determined to cool down tensions…

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Bush’s Final SOTU as a Cloud Map

Bush’s SOTU Visualized: Check out Bush’s State of the Union as a word cloud — the larger the word, the more often it was used:

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A Sobering Look

(via Vanity Fair) When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but [...]

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