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  • The Bush Years

    Last week, the Census Bureau released a statistical report on the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency. The numbers were brutal. On every indicator, Americans lost ground during the Bush era. The median income slumped. The poverty rate increased. The percentage of Americans without health insurance rose. (full article…)

  • Why He Threw the Shoe

    I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre [...]

  • The Shoe Felt ‘Round the World

    Zaidi’s actions during the former US president’s swansong visit to Iraq last December have not stopped reverberating in the nine months since. Next Monday, when the journalist walks out of prison, his 10 raging seconds, which came to define his country’s last six miserable years, are set to take on a new life even more [...]

  • Good

    In what is being hailed as an unprecedented ruling, a federal appeals court has concluded that the George W. Bush administration’s first attorney general, John Ashcroft, can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of an innocent U.S. citizen. In the panic that followed the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, the Justice Department [...]

  • A Viable State?

    After all, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon assured President George W. Bush of his support for a Palestinian state in April 2004, he referred to Palestinians in the West Bank having what he called “transportation contiguity,” meaning tunnels beneath Israeli bypass roads to settlements that only Israelis could use. That constitutes a viable state? (more…)

  • Out of Hiding

    But Mr. Bush, in an appearance here on Wednesday, maintained that he would not criticize President Obama, though he did discuss his policies. “I will just tell you that there are people at Gitmo who will kill Americans at the drop of a hat,” Mr. Bush said at a dinner held by a group of [...]

  • Back To the Future (On Torture)

    If, like me, you’ve been following America’s torture policies not just for the last few years but for decades, you can’t help but experience that eerie feeling of déjà vu these days. With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington and the arrival of Barack Obama, it may just be back [...]

  • This is “Change”

    “This tragic, misguided, and unprincipled reversal seems to be consistent with the fact that instead of getting a real ‘change’ on policies under the Obama administration, the American people are experiencing continuity across the board with those of the discredited and criminal Bush administration when it comes to international law, human rights, and U.S. constitutional [...]

  • U.S. Torture (Even Before the Legal Memos)

    “The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees.” The report undercuts the Obama administration’s case for leniency against the CIA, since the agency was pursuing abusive techniques even [...]

  • Bush’s Legacy

    The oil sector, still Iraq’s most significant industry, is plagued by a rotting infrastructure. Pipelines in Basra are being kept together by “duct tape and spit”, according to one concerned American official. “They can burst at any minute.” Most Iraqis today might say much the same about their country. They are grateful for the temporary [...]

  • Can Anyone Say Ghost-Writer…?

    Bush feels content with his presidency, friends said. Now he will try to explain his two terms by writing a book and building a presidential center at Dallas’s Southern Methodist University so that history will have the means to judge him fairly. (more…)

  • A Bi-National State?

    Many Palestinians and some important voices in what remains of Israel’s now-battered peace camp have concluded that it is now impossible to win the ‘two-state solution’ envisaged by Bush and Obama. This has led to the re-emergence in both communities of an old idea: that of a single bi- national state between the Jordan River [...]

  • Carrying Bush’s Legacy

    Many of Obama’s initiatives in his first few days in office — preparing to depart Iraq, ending torture and closing Guantánamo — were aimed at signaling a sharp turn away from Bush administration policies. In contrast, the headline about the strike in Waziristan could as easily have appeared in December with “President Bush” substituted for [...]

  • From 43 to 44

    Forwarding mail should go to The Bush Ranch, Crawford, Texas. If it looks like a bar tab, just send it to Cheney (about time the old skinflint paid for something), and if it’s from either of the Blairs just toss it. If I never get another one of her begging letters as long as I [...]

  • Change? Not So Much.

    The Obama administration is reluctant to turn over too many rocks in the Bush administration’s conduct in the War on Terror. Obama has pledged to reach a post-partisan nirvana, and Republicans could condemn any investigation of Bush administration abuse of the republic as a partisan witch-hunt. Also, the Obama administration has a conflict of interest [...]

  • Bush Should Have Been Impeached

    However, as corrupt as the Illinois governor’s alleged violations were, the harmful results of his crimes and misdemeanors pale when compared with those of the former president of the United States, George W. Bush. Yet the House of Representatives allowed Bush to finish his term with no accountability for his transgressions. (more…)

  • Angry Arab on Obama and Bush

    In Obama’s speech–or anthology of American political cliches–he said that markets “expand freedoms”. How does that work? Like if I buy chicken mcnuggets I make contributions to freedoms around the world? Watching Bush leave in disgrace: in the US and around the world, I could not help think: who in the world would invite that [...]

  • A Fitting Last Few Weeks For the Bush Years

    A senior Israeli official said that if the rockets stopped it would be better if Israeli troops were out of Gaza by the time the new American president takes office, so he could concentrate more on rebuilding Gaza and a more moderate Palestinian leadership than on pressuring Israel to withdraw. The official spoke anonymously because [...]

  • Worst President in History?

    How will Mr Bush be judged in the light of history? “Many historians”, says Princeton’s Mr Wilentz, “are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.” (more…)

  • What Clinton Should Have Addressed

    Human rights groups have criticized Israeli attacks on Gaza as disproportionate and indiscriminate, bordering on war crimes. Yet the Bush administration has encouraged Israel’s offensive, blaming Hamas for the violence. Unconditional American support in the face of Israeli brutality is one of the principal reasons so many people in the Arab world hate the United [...]

  • An Arrogant Legacy

    I’ve talked to the President many times about this, and I think the President has made clear his concerns for innocent civilians, Israeli civilians, but Palestinian civilians, too. (more…) Notice that Rice mentions Bush’s concern for 900+ Palestinian deaths as an afterthought to the handful of Israeli deaths. Does this not speak volumes to the [...]

  • How Quaint

    “I strongly disagree with the assessment of our moral standing has been damaged – people still understand America stands for freedom” (more…) Even as he spearheads the undermining of democracy in Palestine and provides unqualified support to Israeli slaughter in Gaza, he believes that America still stands for freedom…? How quaint. How precious.

  • Nothing Changes…

    Comparing his approach to the Middle East to that of previous administrations, Obama suggested that he will not be making a clean break from the Bush policy. “I think that if you look not just at the Bush administration, but also what happened under the Clinton administration, you are seeing the general outlines of an [...]

  • Power to the Shoe

    On Thursday, Dana M. Perino, the White House press secretary, said President Bush had urged the Iraqis “not to overreact, because he was not bothered by the incident, although it’s not appropriate for people to throw shoes at a press conference, at any leader.” (more…) I disagree—the shoe is the least Bush deserves for the [...]

  • Power to the Shoe

    Le lancer de chaussures du journaliste Mountazer Al-Zaïdi sur George Bush est d’ores et déjà qualifié de “moment historique” sur la blogosphère irakienne. Les vidéos de la séquence, les parodies et les jeux circulent de site en site et des blogueurs qui n’avaient pas posté depuis longtemps se sont remis à l’ouvrage. (more…)

  • Cheney’s Scowling Visage

    Over the last eight years, Cheney’s scowling visage has been the more true and honest face of the Bush administration. Unlike Bush, when discussing the national security policies of the US Cheney rarely bothered with transparently disingenuous appeals to democracy-building, dealing instead in appeals to fear and raw assertions of power. (more…)

  • Bush’s Legacy

    George W. Bush. US president: January 20, 2001 – January 19, 2009. Born of privilege. Unimpressive by every measure. A history of underachievement. Chosen by big money. Arranged through electoral fraud. Installed by the Supreme Court. (more…)

  • Power To the Shoe

    Far from a joke, many in the Mideast saw the act by an Iraqi journalist as heroic, expressing the deep, personal contempt many feel for the American leader they blame for years of bloodshed, chaos and the suffering of civilians. (more…)

  • Just a Shoe and Nothing More

    “No one should read anything more into it than what it was, which was an individual throwing a shoe,” Zahren said. (more…) That’s right. Just a shoe. So it would be silly to think that Iraqis are sick of the nightmarish carnage that continues to devastate their country. That’s just silly. It’s only a shoe.

  • Shoe In

    “Just as the men were shaking hands, an Iraqi reporter in the small crowd stood up and hurled not one, but two shoes, at the president, forcing Bush to duck to avoid getting hit,” Raddatz said. “His press secretary, Dana Perino, was hit in the eye by a microphone as the man was wrestled to [...]

  • On January 20, Barack Obama will be more prepared than any president in recent history to move in, and as everyone now likes to write, “hit the ground running.” But that ground–the bloated executive and the vast national security apparatus that goes with it (as well as the US military garrisons that dot the planet), [...]

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