Tag: george bush
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November 13, 2008 05:02 AM EST --
Saudi Arabia is a country that uses special police force , called the "Society for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," to make sure that only "one narrow sect of Islam . . .
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December 02, 2008 03:08 AM EST --
In an interview that will be aired on ABC on Monday night (December 2), George Bush said that " the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq... I . . .
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June 01, 2009 12:03 PM EDT --
General Ricardo Sanchez , the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, has called for a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture which occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaking . . .
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June 16, 2009 06:34 AM EDT --
CIA director Leon Panetta thinks "it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack . . .
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July 10, 2009 08:14 AM EDT --
The officials at the federal supermax prison in Florence , Colorado, have "determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material 'potentially detrimental to US national security' . . .
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July 24, 2009 09:51 AM EDT --
Just how bad are the torture and abuse photos which Barack Obama has barred from public view?
A senior Pentagon official told CNN that these images of torture and abuse at the hands of US troops have . . .
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July 30, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
Appearing on "Hardball," Tom Davis, a former Republican Congressman from Virginia, explained how "the politics of culture has wounded the GOP's mass appeal" in the recent years:
Politics has been defined . . .
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July 15, 2009 07:02 AM EDT --
Sarah Palin is facing yet another ethics complaint in Alaska. This one brings the number of complaints against her to 18 .
The latest complaint "alleges she abused her office by accepting a salary . . .
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July 28, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
The US government has decided to shut down its news ticker in the Cuban capital, writes BBC.
The ticker, set up by the Bush administration in 2006, streamed in 1.5m (five-foot) high letters "news . . .
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June 29, 2009 09:00 AM EDT --
Despite the US sanctions that have been in place since the Iranian hostage-taking almost three decades ago, many American companies have been and are still making millions, if not billions, in Iran. . . .
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July 28, 2009 11:35 AM EDT --
In March 2002, and Del and Barbara Spier, an older couple from Texas, "were flat broke" with more than $260,000 in debt, writes Daniel Schulman in Mother Jones.
However, in May 2002, the couple's . . .
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August 25, 2009 03:54 AM EDT --
Occidental College from California offers its students this year a course titled "Stupidity."
The course is a part of Critical Theory and Social Justice department.
Below is the course description . . .
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May 08, 2009 11:01 AM EDT --
" The more often American Christians go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, " at least according to the recent survey by the Pew Forum . . .
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May 21, 2009 03:26 AM EDT --
Is America waging a religious war against Muslims?
Yes, at least according to the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
During the Iraq war, Rumsfeld used quotes from the . . .
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June 23, 2009 08:53 AM EDT --
Frank Schaeffer, one of the founders of the religious right in the United States and, as he says himself "former part of a Republican Party hate machine," wrote a very interesting article in the Huffington . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
The United States military should be "organized, equipped, and funded in the years ahead to win the wars we are in while being prepared for threats on or beyond the horizon," said US Secretary of Defense, . . .
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July 26, 2009 10:39 AM EDT --
Dickipedia, a Wiki of Dicks (dicks like Dick Cheney, George Bush, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chávez, and many others), has a very interesting entry about Sarah Palin. . . .
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August 20, 2009 03:22 PM EDT --
Tom Ridge, former US Secretary of Homeland Security, has revealed in his new book which will be published on September 1 2009 that he was "pressured to raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election . . .
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May 02, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
Ben Chang, spokesman for president Obama's National Security Adviser, said on February 5, 2009 that Obama's Administration s upports " the International Criminal Court in its pursuit . . .
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June 10, 2009 08:00 AM EDT --
The Pacific nation Palau has agreed to temporarily resettle up to 17 ethnic Uighurs from China, currently held at the Guantanamo detention center, after being approached by the US government.
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