Tag: Cheney
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Tortured Answers
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A shameful passage
The United States Supreme Court illegitimately installed George W. Bush as president of the United States after the 2000 elections. Boy George was going to while away his time in office, rewarding friends in politics and the oil and defense industries with rich contracts. That was why Dick Cheney held those meetings with energy interests…
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Nat Hentoff weighs in
In two columns last week and this week, Village Voice columnist and legendary civil liberties activist Nat Hentoff argues vigorously for bringing American officials responsible for human rights abuses during The Bush Years to be brought up on War Crimes charges. Last week he said: With regard to serial war crimes, “accountability” would mean putting…
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October surprise *
Trey Ellis in HuffPo thinks we should be afraid, very afraid of what Republicans might have up their sleeves for October: We taxpayers already have shelled out $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since 2003. They have 180,000 employees in country now building what they had assumed would be permanent bases for a permanent occupation…