President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
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Is Bush the worst president ever? You decide.
8 JanWhat Glenn said.
10 NovGlenn Greenwald: Salon.Com: Orin Kerr and the responsibility of elites for the last eight years
[…] Over the last eight years (at least), we have not only crossed the line of what ought to be within the realm of reasonable, respectful debate, but we have crossed it repeatedly, severely, and with great harm to our political system and huge numbers of people. And one of the prime reasons that happened is because those with the most vocal platforms and with the greatest claims to expertise failed in their responsibility to oppose it passionately and to describe its extremism, and, instead, eagerly served as apologists for it. Those who seek now to depict their tepidness in the face of all of that as some elevated form of enlightened reason are merely illustrating one of the key mechanisms that enabled all of it to happen.
Stay the course?
31 OctA new course on ‘staying the course’
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
‘The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. `Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ ” — from 1984 by George Orwell
“I’m here to tell you we’re going to stay the course.” — George W. Bush, Nov. 28, 2003
Bush renames the “War on Terror”
7 MayBush calls terror fight World War III
US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of “World War III”. Continue reading
War is peace?
27 Apr“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”
George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
“War is Peace”
George Orwell in “1984“
Credit “Impeach for Peace“.
The Nation: Nuclear Madness
25 AprNuclear Madness
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
I like this quote, a lot. It really says it for me.
“… all the while the charge is led by a little man/would-be cowboy with a messianic vision who finds himself at the helm of the most powerful nation in history. …”
Nuclear retaliation is still an option
18 AprHow many times do I need to say it? These people are insane. Beyond all hope of redemption insane.
An Aging Trans Woman 