The Bush/GOP administration has taken our country a long way down the road to institutionalizing torture. We can't afford to let that process continue. It's time to stand up for what is right.
Bush is fond of bragging about the flourishing new democracy that he credits himself and his policies with having created in "liberated" Iraq. Here's a report on just how flourishing and how "democratic" the government of Iraq really is.
Bush's nomination of Lt. Gen. David Petraeus to the command of U.S. forces in Iraq is a positive move. Still, it's unlikely that it can halt the downward slide of the U.S. occupation.
The Bush administration has deservedly received heavy criticism for it's failures and errors in the botched war in Iraq. Receiving less attention, but equally deserving of criticism, is its failed war in Afganistan.
One cause of the debacle in Iraq was the Bush administration's profound ignorance about the peoples and cultures that we attacked and the likely results of our blunders.
Mr. Bush's presidency has been been characterized by lies, mistakes, incompetency and arrogance. It has finally become a notable example of "theater of the absurd." What the man is doing is inexplicable.
It's about time to realize that George W. Bush is bogged down not only in Iraq but also in Fantasyland. His latest fantasy gambit is to proclaim that putting 20,000-plus more troops into Iraq will bring "victory" of some kind.
Surveys show that large numbers of U.S. citizens have very little knowledge of our country's history, government, constitution, etc. That may indicate that we get the kind of government that we deserve.
For the Bush administration and many, if not most, Republicans, privatization has been seen as some kind of magic elixir. It is not. Both at home and abroad that fact is demonstrated.