Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion During Bush Presidency

During Bush Presidency, Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion Think Progress- By Travis Waldron at 11:49 am After pushing the government to brink of shutdown last week, Republican Congressional leaders are now preparing to push America to the edge of default by refusing to increase the nation’s debt [...]

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Bush’s Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe

Bush’s Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe Huff Post- Dan Froomkin-  First Posted: 11-11-10 03:49 PM   |   Updated: 11-11-10 04:01 PM WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate whether former president George W. Bush violated federal statutes prohibiting [...]

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Time to bring out the riot police for Glenn Beck & Freedomworks

This, like, sorry excuse for a human being has an ego bigger than the national deficit. His plans for a teabagger happening by the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC , IMO, should be dealt with in the same way, as the Demonstrators in Saint Paul Minnesota were, by the Bu$h administration. We haven’t forgotten the [...]

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Conyers Announces Hearings On Torture Memos

Conyers Slams Authors Of Torture Memos, Announces Hearings TPM Muckraker Justin Elliott | February 19, 2010, 5:44PM In a statement this afternoon, [Friday], House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) says that the Justice Department torture memo report released today makes “plain that those memos were legally flawed and fundamentally unsound, and may have been improperly [...]

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Olbermann Blames Bush And Cheney For 9/11 Attacks

Keith Olbermann blames Bush, Cheney for 9/11 attacks Raw Story- By Stephen C. Webster Saturday, February 13th, 2010 — 3:11 pm The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 changed American politics forever. But in spite of the warning signs raised by the U.S. intelligence community, the Bush administration seemed preoccupied with other issues, aloof to the [...]

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OPERATION FOREVER: AFGHANISTAN

Meanwhile, back in Iraq, things are falling apart, again. Violence is up. Our strategerie of pulling our troops out of Iraq’s cities and hiding them in the countryside is not going as planned. Unless the plan is to keep them there forever. Maybe that is the plan. Why else would we continue two unwinnable wars (make that three with Pakistan) just digging in and fortifying our hidey holes, while allowing chaos to reign all around us? Clearly, the plan, if there is one at all, is simply to keep US troops near the oil & gas reserves and pipelines until there is peace and stability in the region. But the mere presence of US troops guarantees that there will never be peace in the region. Is the idea that chaos is easier to deal with than independent governments who might squeeze –or squeeze out– our big Oilco’s? Easier for the Oilco’s, who never shed any of their own blood, and for our war machine, which is only there to shed blood for the Oilco’s? Vietnam was thought to have oil too, y’know.

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HAVE A NICE WAR!

In other words, we’re digging in for the long haul. We’re ass-covering in advance. We’re doing everything we can to minimize political collateral damage, keeping a low low low low profile, hoping everybody forgets about all the wars. Yeah, there’s three now: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and maybe Iran or even Georgia, soon. Biden was over there dicking with the Rooskies just last week. Why? War is good business, even a cold war, comrade. For both sides. It gives them unlimited money and power, and lots of toys that go “BOOM!!!” Every world leader’s ultimate wet-dream.

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Holder May Probe Bush Torture

Independent’s Day Obama doesn’t want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway. By Daniel Klaidman | NEWSWEEK Published Jul 11, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jul 20, 2009 It’s the morning after Independence Day, and Eric Holder Jr. is feeling the weight of history. The night before, he’d stood [...]

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War Is Sin

by Chris Hedges | Truthdig.com, June 1, 2009 The crisis faced by combat veterans returning from war is not simply a profound struggle with trauma and alienation. It is often, for those who can slice through the suffering to self-awareness, an existential crisis. War exposes the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. It rips open [...]

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Ray Mcgovern: O.I.L. = oil, israel, and logistics

“O.I.L.” August 19, 2007 In a television interview with Tucker Carlson on MSNBC, McGovern said: “I‘ve been using the acronym O.I.L. for many — for two years now: O for oil; I for Israel; and L for logistics, logistics being the permanent — now we say “enduring” — military bases that the U.S. wants to [...]

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