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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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May 15, 2009 03:08 AM EDT --
As the German Spiegel writes, " the torture practices used in interrogations of al-Qaida prisoners were not developed by government officials in Washington, but by private security experts . . .
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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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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 11, 2009 03:20 PM EDT --
US Attorney General, Eric Holder, may soon appoint a prosecutor "to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices," writes Newsweek.
Even though no final decision has been made . . .
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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 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 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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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 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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July 17, 2009 07:40 AM EDT --
"We’ve known for years that the Bush administration ignored and broke the law repeatedly in the name of national security," says the New York Times editorial on July 16 2009.
"Many of [Bush-era] . . .
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July 21, 2009 09:53 AM EDT --
Another ethics complaint was filed against former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
This one brings the number of complaints against her to 19 .
The latest ethics complaint alleges Palin "failed to . . .
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