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
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war
by mikepower
Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed.
The Blog | Michelle Pilecki: The Huffington Post
by mikepower
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
by mikepower
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
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.
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth
by mikepower
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
by mikepower
Reactions to Bush's State Of The Union 2006 Address from around the blogs
January 2006
Bush has backward view of dissent
by mikepower
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
by mikepower
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:
by mikepower
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?
by mikepower
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
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
Whiskey Bar: Twilight of the Neocons?
by mikepower
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?
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
November 2005
Full Marx for George Bush by John Laughland
by mikepower
libertarian analysis that Bush has marxists supporting him ideologically and practically
August 2005
America's Big Malignant Tumor /
by mikepower
Libs are salivating that Karl Rove might go down. But hasn't the worst cancer already spread?
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
The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration
by mikepower
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
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.
by mikepower
In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
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.
March 2005
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Democratic Underground
by mikepower
Yet another list from DU. Well they're spoilt for choice aren't they?
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