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Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama....

Who could forget "shock and awe" or "the Bush Doctrine" or, for that matter, "Mission Accomplished"? Who could forget, but then again, who would want to remember? Chris Matthews, one of the true superstars of cable, makes a good case for remembering tonight with a special edition of his "Hardball" s...

We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government.......

December 18, 2008 News Corp...

Ezra Klein applies the headline “Doing Her Job” to this infamous photo of Lyndie England. Lynndie England with dog at Abu Ghraib It was not a few bad apples. It was not the chaos of war. It was official U.S. government policy. The release of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Re...

Bipartisan Senate Investigative Panel: The Rumster And “Surge” Dubya Were Well Aware Of (So-Called) “Torture” Techniques And Threw Lynndie England And Other Abu Ghraib Reservists Under The Proverbial “Bus” Hey, remember back when Lynndie England was claiming she.....

I don't want to get on a soapbox here, but the Bush Administration's authorization of torture and rendition is one of the most shameful episodes in our country's recent history.* One of the methods interrogators have for making detainees "talk" consists of playing music at super-loud volumes, someti...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- U.S. forces said Thursday that they had killed an Iraqi insurgent leader responsible for the death of a 20-year-old Army reservist who became a focus of national attention in the United States during the four years he was missing in action....

BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- U.S. forces said Thursday that they had killed an Iraqi insurgent leader responsible for the death of a 20-year-old Army reservist who became a focus of national attention in the United States during the four years he was missing in action....