Steve Bridges Impersonating President Bush

Steve Bridges, an actor best known for impersonating then-President George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, died last week at the age of 48, his manager said Sunday.

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The Wall Street Journal: Idiots of the Day

Keep on clutching at straws there guys...

Could the successful U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lead to a reassessment of the Bush administration’s national security apparatus, much of which has been the focus of political controversy?

Some former Bush administration officials are arguing for that in light of the U.S. operation that killed bin Laden. U.S. officials say some of the initial strands of intelligence that eventually led to Sunday’s military operation came from terror detainees captured after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, including some held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

I love the smell of wishful thinking in the morning.

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Note to Jon Stewart: Bush is a war criminal. Conversation over

Jon Stewart had this to say during his interview with Rachel Maddow:

You've said Bush is a war criminal. Now, that may be technical true. In my world, war criminal is Pol Pot or the Nuremburg trials. …I think that's such an incendiary charge that when you put it in the conversation as—well, technically he is. That may be right. But it feels like a conversation stopper, not a conversation starter. …We were talking about tone, not content necessarily.

The reaction to this is probably not what he'd hoped...

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Amnesty International: Prosecute Bush

The United States must prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture if his admission in a memoir that he authorized waterboarding holds true, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

In "Decision Points," published this week, Bush defended his decision to authorize waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning condemned by some as torture *.

Bush said the practice was limited to three detainees and led to intelligence breakthroughs that thwarted attacks and saved lives. He told NBC in an interview to publicize the book that his legal adviser had told him it did "not fall within the anti-torture act."

Amnesty International's Senior Director Claudio Cordone said in a statement: "Under international law, anyone involved in torture must be brought to justice, and that does not exclude former President George W. Bush."

Lovely thought, but will never happen. For the West to admit war crimes it will have to overcome barbaric attitudes unleashed by Bush and Co., as this brain dead commenter demonstrates:

Those people deserved it!!!!!!!! anyone remotely involved with 9/11 should have been not only tortured, but executed. How does anyone feel sorry for these people? They should not have done something to become detained. They absolutely deserved any bit of torture they received. Thank god bush had the spine to handle the situation. Democrat pussies make the fathers of our country turn over in their graves. Go waterboarding. Would be terrorists NEED to know they will be tortured if they are caught.

Thus unravelling centuries of progress...

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* Oh and by the way Reuters, fuck you, water boarding is torture. Only the sick fucks who want to use it and the press that enables them have doubts. The rest of us are crystal clear it's torture.

Bush admits war crimes. You know and I know nothing will come of it

Welcome to the Modern World. If your side does it, it's torture. If our side does it, it's "the choice between security and values".

War crime tribunals are just for the losers.

Bush reveals the decision points that led him to choose waterboarding as an interrogation technique.

"CIA experts drew up a list of interrogation techniques. ... At my direction, Department of Justice and CIA lawyers conducted a careful legal review. The enhanced interrogation program complied with the Constitution and all applicable laws, including those that ban torture.

"There were two that I felt went too far, even if they were legal. I directed the CIA not to use them. Another technique was waterboarding, a process of simulated drowning. No doubt the procedure was tough, but medical experts assured the CIA that it did no lasting harm."

Though Bush confirms that he knew the use of waterboarding would one day become public, and acknowledges that it is "sensitive and controversial," he asserts that "the choice between security and values was real," and expresses firm confidence in his decision. "Had I not authorized waterboarding on senior al Qaeda leaders, I would have had to accept a greater risk that the country would be attacked. In the wake of 9/11, that was a risk I was unwilling to take," he writes.

And there you have it folks. American has lost its moral lead in the world. Gone forever.

Thus are war crimes justified.

Thanks Bush, heck of a job.

My prediction: Bush was just a warm up. The real horrors committed by the West are yet to come this century, now that we have that nasty torture stigma out of the way....

Ohhh, that's why Bush went to the Olympics

A fight is brewing between Capitol Hill and the Pentagon over allegations that Chinese government agents were allowed to interrogate some detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Jay Alan Liotta, principal director of the Defense Department office responsible for detainee policy, told a House subcommittee on Thursday that he would not publicly comment on whether officials from China or any other nation were granted access to foreign citizens held at the detention facility.

He offered to release that information to the committee during a closed, classified session.

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Bush Go Home

We have enough nasty conservatives here already, thank you very much.

Bush-Clinton tickets not that hot

Still hundreds of tickest remaining for ex-presidents' speech in Toronto

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Bush opens his big mouth

You should have stayed quiet, people were actually beginning to respect you...ever so slightly.

Former President George W. Bush on Thursday repeated Dick Cheney's assertion that their enhanced interrogation program was legal and garnered valuable information that prevented future terrorist attacks.

In his largest domestic speech since leaving the White House in January, Bush told an audience in southwestern Michigan that after the September 11 attacks, "I vowed to take whatever steps that were necessary to protect you."

Including war crimes.

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BubuBye George

Misguided WT editor Wall defends Bush

Where do they find these people?

The legacy Bush leaves behind won't be everything he wanted (particularly as it relates to popularity), but on many fronts, it will be better than that of his predecessor. Bill Clinton may have been popular, but his moral failings brought shame on the office of the presidency and tainted the people's house.

Is she [Tara Wall is deputy editor for The Washington Times] serious? So little things like torture, illegal wars and treason aren't worse than a B.J.?

The Republican mind, always a mystery.

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Man who threw shoes at Bush proves democracy is a joke

Is there anyone, anywhere who doesn't want this man freed, statues erected in his honour, parades, coin struck....

Except those in power...

The Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush at a news conference appeared before a judge Tuesday and admitted "aggression against a president," a judicial spokesman said.

The television reporter, Muntader al-Zaidi, became an instant sensation when he called Bush a "dog" at a news conference with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on Sunday and tried to hit him with both of his shoes.

"Zaidi was brought today before the investigating judge in the presence of a defense lawyer and a prosecutor," said Abdul Satar Birqadr, a spokesman for Iraq's High Judicial Council. "He admits the action he carried out."

Muntader al-Zaidi, the World Salutes You.

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Bush: "So what?"

If the shoe fits

It's not up the ass, but close enough.

The Secret Service look asleep, don't they?

Obama shows Bush how big his jail cell will be

"About this big George. You'll love the orange suit..."

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush welcomed President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, to the White House on Monday afternoon.

Bush and Obama are holding a private meeting in the Oval Office, while the first lady gives the incoming first lady a tour of the residence.

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Wall Street got drunk

An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle, have posted a video taken at a political fundraiser for Pete Olson, featuring George W. Bush last week -- capturing some embarrassing/revealing moments after, he noted, he had asked cameras to be turned off.

Proud to be an Idiot

Bush and McCain, proud to be not very smart.

Since when did this become a good thing?

Bush and gas prices

We're screwed.

Bush: Olympic boycott would insult Chinese

Hey, ya'll know I'm clueless. Why should now be any different?

I'll give Bush this, he does understand one of the purposes of a boycott (or someone explained it to him). Yes indeed, it would insult the Chinese.

But he knows something we don't. Little things like human rights don't really matter to the people and circles he moves in. I mean, Bush just recently joined their ranks, becoming a world class (albeit small scale) torturer.

And also, it's bad to insult your loan shark...

No, we have to remember that human rights only really matter to people like you and I, because if governments take anyone's rights away it will be yours and mine (and the U.S. government is having a field day doing just that right now).

The leaders? Their rights are safe, always have been.

But we have to keep quiet and not kick up a fuss, right? It's all for our own good, isn't it?

Isn't it?

U.S. President George W. Bush has defended his decision to attend next month's Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, saying that to do otherwise "would be an affront to the Chinese people."

Speaking to reporters Sunday ahead of the start of this week's summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations in Japan, Bush said he did not need to boycott the ceremony to show his position on religious freedom and human rights in China.

He said if he failed to attend the Games it would "make it more difficult to be able to speak more frankly with the Chinese leadership."

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Bush's London stopover delayed 40,000 people

Bush, idiot leader of the free world, continues to anger just about everyone he comes in contact with...

Nearly 40,000 travelers will remember U.S. President George W. Bush's stopover in London. Their flights were canceled or delayed at Heathrow Airport to accommodate him, according to British Airways.

BAA, the airport owner, confirmed Tuesday that 32 arrivals and 36 departures, mostly British Airways flights, were canceled June 15, when Bush arrived, and the following day, when he left. BAA had no figures on delays related to the president's visit.

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Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush

I stand in awe of this man's unblinking nerve. The timing is as transparent as glass.

President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.

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