Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House
Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, Vanity Fair: "The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history - distilled from scores of interviews - offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other key players."
http://www.truthout.org/123008T
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From “Mission Accomplished” to “So What?”
TruthDig
by Eugene Robinson
12/23/08
Understanding isn’t the same as forgiving. The history-be-my-judge interviews that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been giving recently help me understand why they acted with such contempt for our Constitution and our values — but also reinforce my confident belief, and my fervent hope, that history will throw the book at them. The basic argument that they’re making deserves to be taken seriously. I don’t think either man would object to my summing it up in one sentence: We did what we did to keep America safe. That terse formulation of the Bush-Cheney apologia leaves out important details. Cheney came into office with preconceived ideas about restoring executive branch powers and prerogatives that he believed had been lost after Vietnam and Watergate; Bush either shared Cheney’s views or was willing to go along...
http://tinyurl.com/9q3xn3
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+White+House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hurricane+Katrina
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+disaster
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watergate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cullen+Murphy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Todd+S.+Purdum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eugene+Robinson
http://www.truthout.org/123008T
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From “Mission Accomplished” to “So What?”
TruthDig
by Eugene Robinson
12/23/08
Understanding isn’t the same as forgiving. The history-be-my-judge interviews that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been giving recently help me understand why they acted with such contempt for our Constitution and our values — but also reinforce my confident belief, and my fervent hope, that history will throw the book at them. The basic argument that they’re making deserves to be taken seriously. I don’t think either man would object to my summing it up in one sentence: We did what we did to keep America safe. That terse formulation of the Bush-Cheney apologia leaves out important details. Cheney came into office with preconceived ideas about restoring executive branch powers and prerogatives that he believed had been lost after Vietnam and Watergate; Bush either shared Cheney’s views or was willing to go along...
http://tinyurl.com/9q3xn3
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+White+House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hurricane+Katrina
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+disaster
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watergate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cullen+Murphy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Todd+S.+Purdum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eugene+Robinson
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