after bush

Report: Bush Admin Raised Terror Alert Based On Con Man's Al Jazeera 'Decoding' Scam

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:02:40 -0500

by Justin Elliott

A self-styled Nevada codebreaker convinced the CIA he could decode secret terrorist targeting information sent through Al Jazeera broadcasts, prompting the Bush White House to raise the terror alert level to Orange (high) in December 2003, with Tom Ridge warning of "near-term attacks that could either rival or exceed what we experience on September 11," according to a new report in Playboy.

Dubya: The Surreal Afterlife of an Ex-President

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:55:46 -0500

by Alex Hannaford

George W Bush is clearly enjoying himself. Alone on the stage, mic in hand, he tells a story about a moment earlier this year when he was walking his dog, Barney, around the Dallas suburb he now calls home. "I wanted to say hello to my neighbours," says Bush, "because I was worried we'd inconvenienced them when word was out that George Bush was moving where they lived. I hadn't walked in a neighbourhood in eight years. Ain't that interesting? Barney had never walked in a neighbourhood either ...

Bush White House Emails Won't Be Public For Years

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:04:31 -0500

by Zachary Roth

The Obama administration and two good government groups yesterday announced, with some fanfare, that they'd come to an agreement on those missing emails from the Bush White House.

Tony Blair Admits: I Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:04:17 -0500

by Riazat Butt and Richard Norton-Taylor

Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the public.

The former prime minister made the confession during an interview with Fern Britton, to be broadcast on Sunday on BBC1, in which he said he would still have thought it right to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:30:14 -0500

by David Michael Green

Take a look at a video of George W. Bush speaking to the nation five or six years ago.

Like a pop single from 1962 (or 2002, for that matter), it didn't age very well.

It's astonishing that this transparently frightened man was the leader of the free world for eight years, and was given so much license to commit so much destruction.

But, then, nothing seems to define our era quite so much as license.

NYT: Bush’s Cover-Up of Abuse Turning into Obama’s Cover-Up

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:56:13 -0400

by Ron Brynaert

It's been said with regards to the Watergate scandal and the Nixonian presidency that the cover-up was worse than the crime. A month after Nixon resigned, his successor, President Gerald Ford pardoned him, and many observers believed his technically-less-than-one-term administration never recovered from that action.

"The cover-up continues," a New York Times editorial declared on Sunday.

Bush Jokes as Protesters Burn His Effigy in Montreal

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:18:41 -0400

MONTREAL — As George W. Bush cracked jokes with a business crowd inside a hotel ballroom Thursday, hundreds of people outside the building cheered while he was being burned in effigy.

Police in riot gear and others on horseback held back a crowd of hundreds, including many people who tossed shoes at Montreal's historic Queen Elizabeth Hotel in a demonstration of disdain for the man speaking inside.

Two protesters who tried forcing their way through the line of shield- and baton-carrying police were wrestled to the ground and arrested.

Musicians Demand Records On Bush Administration's Use Of Music For Torture

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:51:49 -0400

by Sam Stein

A group of prominent musicians are joining a campaign to close Guantanamo Bay and demanding the release of records about what music was used during the potential torture of detainees there and at other facilities.

Welcoming for a War Criminal in Canada

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:46:09 -0400

EDMONTON - While former U.S. president George W. Bush talked about democracy inside a downtown Edmonton conference centre on Tuesday, hundreds of protesters were outside exercising their right to free speech with signs, songs and screams.

"Stop the killing, stop the war," the protesters chanted to the beat of a drum. They held signs that said "Bush is a war criminal;" "Bush lied, 1,000s died;" and "Canada is not Bush Country."

Dumping Dubya: Why The Regressive Right Desperately Wants To Erase The Bush Presidency

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:45:04 -0400

by David Michael Green

Hey, wasn't that George W. Bush presidency really fantastic?

You do still remember it, don't you?

Wasn't it great? Don't you have lots of warm and fuzzy memories of it? Isn't it a shame that he couldn't have a third term?