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PUBLIC MARKS from mikepower with tags usa & bush

March 2006

The White House That Cried Wolf

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?

Profound pessimism about the Iraq war has pushed George Bush's popularity to an all-time low of 34%

February 2006

The Blog | Michelle Pilecki: The Huffington Post

Arms-control treaties, nuclear proliferation, weapons of mass destruction -- in dealing with these issues, does the State Department need career professionals who know what they're talking about? Apparently not

Bush defended (see below) Letter to the Editor: Judge Bush on his results

George W. Bush has an undergraduate degree from Yale University, a graduate degree from Harvard, was two-term governor of our second-largest state and a two-term President of the United States. Mr Bush qualified to pilot a modern jet fighter...

TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness

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.

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

Cindy Sheehan's side of the story. If true, this is just very sad for our country

Bloggerheads- Reactions to State Of The Union 2006

Reactions to Bush's State Of The Union 2006 Address from around the blogs

January 2006

Bush has backward view of dissent

Did Bush deliberately deceive the American people to justify the war in Iraq? I don't know...and neither do you. But here's what we do know: The president doesn't think we should be asking in the first place. And that might be the biggest scandal of all.

Gore Vidal: President Jonah

We are assured daily by advertisers and/or politicians that we are the richest, most envied people on Earth and, apparently, that is why so many awful, ill-groomed people want to blow us up. Well, we still have Kraft cheese and... the death penalty.

The Smirking Chimp: Bush thinks he's a war leader like Lincoln:

History will look back on George Bush as a justifiably insecure man who went to war to aggrandize himself. Lincoln was a skilled debater and a thoughtful, eloquent speaker; Bush can barely string single-syllable words into a coherent sentence.

The HuffPo Blog | Martin Garbus: How Close Are We to the End of Democracy?

No president in over 200 years of our history has ever before claimed the "unitary powers" that Bush claims are his. Not President Lincoln during the Civil War, not President Wilson during World War I, not President Roosevelt during World War II, not Pres

Bush Uses His Word of Choice a Heck of a Lot - Los Angeles Times

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

Whiskey Bar: Twilight of the Neocons?

History, Ismael Reed once said, is the story of warfare between secret societies. I'm not ready to go that far, but I think it's fair to say the history of U.S. foreign policy over the past forty years has been the story of the war between two not-so-secr

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?

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

November 2005

Full Marx for George Bush by John Laughland

libertarian analysis that Bush has marxists supporting him ideologically and practically

August 2005

America's Big Malignant Tumor /

Libs are salivating that Karl Rove might go down. But hasn't the worst cancer already spread?

Sickening story in The Washington Post

Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs: Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details

The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration

Jim Lobe: the man who has, in my opinion, done better reportorial work on the neoconservatives and the Bush administration than any other reporter around: TomDispach

July 2005

The Smirking Chimp

Daniel Ellsberg: 'I wrote Bush's war words — in 1965'

June 2005

Joe Conason at Salon.com: Karl Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He is not a patriot but a pure partisan, as his own record proved long before now.

In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.

March 2005

The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Democratic Underground

Yet another list from DU. Well they're spoilt for choice aren't they?