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	<title>Bits &#38; Pieces &#187; Bush</title>
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		<title>Finally</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/25/finally-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by talkradionews via Flickr From Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic: Ken Mehlman, President Bush&#8216;s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay. *** Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/07/13/torture-quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/07/13/torture-quote-of-the-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=7417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They [George Bush and Dick Cheney] should have been indicted. They absolutely should have been indicted for torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrants. I&#8217;d like to say they should be indicted for lying but believe it or not, unless you&#8217;re under oath, lying is not a crime. At least not an indictable crime. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama = Bush Light, part 3</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/17/obama-bush-light-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/17/obama-bush-light-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=7155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart sets out chapter and verse on the failure of President Obama to follow through on his campaign promises to restore the rule of law in the &#8220;war&#8221; on terror. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c Respect My Authoritah www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameful quote of the day (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/03/shameful-quote-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/03/shameful-quote-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I&#8217;d do it again to save lives. &#8211;Former President George W. Bush, speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday. It is amazing to me that a former president of the United States can speak so openly and proudly of violating US law, US treaty obligations, and general human decency.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The decade in review</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/22/the-decade-in-review/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/22/the-decade-in-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek summarizes the decade. Nicely done. By the way, they are also offering tech predictions about 2010. You might be interested in their number 1 prediction. (Hint: It involves Apple.)]]></description>
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		<title>Rich: Tiger Woods as man of the year</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/20/rich-tiger-woods-as-man-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/20/rich-tiger-woods-as-man-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t disagree with Frank Rich&#8217;s column this morning. Tiger Woods is a terrific personification of an entire decade of people making money  (and going to war) based on a false persona and fantasy. If there’s been a consistent narrative to this year and every other in this decade, it’s that most of us . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The unitary executive continues to grow</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/the-unitary-executive-continues-to-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/the-unitary-executive-continues-to-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=5074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Constitutional limitations on the Executive branch continue to be ignored, despite President Obama&#8217;s promised of change. Gary Wills, writing in the New York Review of Books catalogs the continued damage to the Constitution. The entire essay is worth a read. George W. Bush left the White House unpopular and disgraced. His successor promised change, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama faces the dead</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/obama-faces-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the President traveled to Dover Air Force Base to meet and show respect to 18 returning soldiers killed in Afghanistan.  Of course, when a President appears in such a situation, politics is involved. But a shameless attack on the President came from Liz Cheney, who claimed that it was pure publicity seeking. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Sullivan on the new torture revelations</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/25/andrew-sullivan-on-the-new-torture-revelations/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/25/andrew-sullivan-on-the-new-torture-revelations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=4354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking a break from his summer vacation, Andrew Sullivan reacts to the recent disclosure about America&#8217;s embrace of torture under Bush and the Holder investigation. He is right that the effort to bring to justice those who tortured in the name of America is critical to restoring the traditional values of America. One political party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Bartlett takes on his fellow conservatives (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/13/bruce-bartlett-takes-on-his-fellow-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/13/bruce-bartlett-takes-on-his-fellow-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist, takes on the conservatives and their attempt to blame the problems that the country is now facing on President Obama. Who does Bartlett blame? George W. Bush. He concludes that conservatives will have no real voice until they hold the GOP to the same standards they are demanding of President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacques Chirac: Bush warned of the Apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/08/jacques-chirac-bush-warned-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/08/jacques-chirac-bush-warned-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacques Chirac, former president of France, is now describing in detail the arguements that George Bush made in seeking French troops for the invasion of Iraq. They were based on literal Biblical interpretation.  Bush sounds like Bush is a true religious crackpot if it is true. And it also shows the dangers to all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once again, failure at the NYT (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/06/08/once-again-failure-at-the-nyt/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/06/08/once-again-failure-at-the-nyt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times fails to call torture torture. In addition, the continue to participate in misstating the facts regarding the clear pro-torture policies of the prior administration. The article implies, incorrectly, that all the involved lawyers at the DOJ were satisfied with the torture policies. They were not.  This is very much like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor George W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/21/poor-george-w-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Obama and Cheney were arguing torture. What was George W. Bush doing?]]></description>
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		<title>MoDo on Cheney and Pelosi</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/17/modo-on-cheney-and-pelosi/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/17/modo-on-cheney-and-pelosi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 20:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=2905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a piece that argued that whatever Pelosi was or was not informed about in terms of United States torture policies and procedures, any wrongdoing tied to her failure to speak out about it pales in the face of the orders to torture from the principals in the Bush administration. Today, Maureen Dowd&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy war (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/17/holy-war/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/17/holy-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 19:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq (sold on the basis of non-existent weapons of mass destruction) certainly seems to have been unduly weighted with religious fervor as well.  Early on Bush labeled the so-called &#8220;war on terror&#8221; as a &#8220;crusade.&#8221; And now comes an exclusive report from GQ that says that Rumsfeld regularly regaled the covers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Administration torture arguements</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/03/bush-administration-torture-arguements/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/05/03/bush-administration-torture-arguements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=2772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times outlines the bitter arguements within the Bush administration over its torture policies. It also highlights the ability of Bush himself to continue to claim &#8220;we don&#8217;t torture&#8221; even as he gave orders to do so. The full depth of the Bush administration&#8217;s Orwellian vocabulary makes for interesting analysis. The consensus of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We don&#8217;t torture.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/04/21/we-dont-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/04/21/we-dont-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yea, right. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M &#8211; Th 11p / 10c We Don&#8217;t Torture thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;We don&#039;t torture.&quot;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/04/21/we-dont-torture-2/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2009/04/21/we-dont-torture-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yea, right. \ \ \ \ The Daily Show With Jon Stewart \ M &#8211; Th 11p / 10c \ \ \ We Don&#8217;t Torture \ \ \ thedailyshow.com \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Daily Show \ Full Episodes \ Economic Crisis \ Political Humor \ \ \ \ \]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/04/17/quote-of-the-day-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rod Dreher: One thing that nobody should ever be permitted to say again, after reading these memos: &#8220;The United States didn&#8217;t torture.&#8221; When President Bush said it, he was a liar. The only question is whether or not he was lying to himself, so that he could sleep at night, or consciously lying to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The torture memos are out&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/04/16/the-torture-memos-are-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and they are available here. They should be required reading. More to come on this as I am still reading them.  But from what I have read so far, I think Andrew Sullivan summarizes it very effectively: Perhaps you are reading these documents alongside me. I&#8217;ve only read the Bybee memo, as chilling an [...]]]></description>
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