March 2006
The White House That Cried Wolf
by mikepower
Faced with the unappetizing reality of Iraq, Bush and Rove are relying on that grand old reliable strategy—attack the media. It doesn’t play as well as it used to. Everyone who wants an alternative reality is already watching Fox News.
Who loves ya baby?
by mikepower
Profound pessimism about the Iraq war has pushed George Bush's popularity to an all-time low of 34%
February 2006
TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness
by mikepower
The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.
January 2006
Bush Uses His Word of Choice a Heck of a Lot - Los Angeles Times
by mikepower
It is presidential language that would make Harry S. Truman blanch — not for its saltiness but, heck, for just the opposite. On a daily basis, sometimes several times an hour, the word "heck" creeps into President Bush's public pronouncements. People he
December 2005
Fun Bits About American Torture / In many ways, the U.S. is now just as inhumane and brutal as any Third World regime. Oh well?
by mikepower
Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about, and we're doing it right now, all over the world
August 2005
Sickening story in The Washington Post
by mikepower
Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs: Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details
June 2005
The New Republic Online: Term Limits by Ryan Lizza
by mikepower
It's not President Bush's fault that he has failed on all of his major second-term initiatives.
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