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This category is for news and articles offering views opposed to the decisions, statements, policies or re-election of George W. Bush and his administration.

Resources in This Category

• AlterNet - Loose 'Gannon'

  http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21226/
  Questions if a pseudonymous "reporter" with fake credentials was repeatedly given a daily White House press pass because he was a Bush shill, and examines his relations to Texas conservatives as well as connections to gay pornography websites.

• Boston Globe: Bush Fell Short on Duty at Guard

  http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/08/bush_fell_short_on_duty_at_guard/
  The Globe says he fell well short of meeting his military obligations in the Air National Guard.

• Buzzflash - America's Top 10 Presidents vs. the Worst President in All of American History

  http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/02/26_presidents.html
  Two authors give their views of the best American presidents through their quotes, and then compare them with those of George W. Bush.

• Guardian Unlimited: Christian Leader Faults Bush on Iraq Deaths

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/21/uselections2004.usa2
  The fundamentalist Christian Coalition's founder and Bush supporter Pat Robertson faults Bush for saying the Iraq invasion would create no casualties despite Robertson's warnings.

• History News Network: About the Ties Between Saddam and Osama

  http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/5745
  Examines the purported view of Bush and Cheney that Saddam Hussein and Al Queda are connected, in spite of investigations and commission conclusions that they are not.

• Huffington Post - The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/the-two-most-esssential-a_n_786219.html
  Centers on Bush unnecessary war on Iraq and torture of detainees as the most reprehensible actions of his administration, and whitewashed in his memoir.

• Investigators find secret White House email accounts

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/19/whitehouse_cogr_emails/
  Article on the use of RNC e-mail accounts by White House officials. The Register (UK).

• London Review of Books · Eliot Weinberger · ‘Damn right,’ I Said

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n01/eliot-weinberger/damn-right-i-said
  A fact check of Bush's book Decision Points, that finds Bush writing with a selective memory and egocentric focus.

• Mother Jones: Conversation with a Conservative: John Dean

  http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/10/dean_intro.html
  The former counsel to President Nixon and purported conservative says the way the Bush administration has governed has been worse than Watergate.

• Mother Jones: The Lie Factory

  http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/lie-factory
  The purported inside story of how the Bush administration pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the US to war.

• New York Times: Without a Doubt

  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EFD8113BF934A25753C1A9629C8B63
  Ron Suskind sees in Bush's cabinet a disdain for contemplation or deliberation, an embrace of faith and decisiveness, a retreat from empiricism, and a sometimes bullying impatience. [Fee required for full text.]

• Salon - Right-Wingers Turn Against Bush

  http://www.salon.com/2006/02/09/right_backlash/
  After Bush's 2006 State of the Union speech, conservative groups worry that the president has become just another free-spending, big-government politician.

• The Guardian - Bush Payola Scandal Deepens as Third Columnist Admits Being Paid

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jan/29/pressandpublishing.usnews
  The Bush administration was confronted with fresh evidence of a far-reaching clandestine campaign to influence public opinion after a third conservative commentator admitted receiving payments for championing its policies.

• The Guardian: 'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/11/september11.usa1
  Craig Unger states that despite his tough rhetoric, Bush has been blind to the forces behind terrorism, shielded its funders, diverted resources from battling it, and obstructed investigators.

• The Guardian: America the Horrible is now Turning into a Pariah

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/apr/04/usa.comment
  Columnist Polly Toynbee censures President Bush for his abandonment of the Kyoto treaty on climate change.

• The Independent Institute - Not the Worst President Ever, But a Definite Contender

  http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1766
  Dr. Ivan Eland compares George W. Bush's performance to other post-Second World War presidents, and finds Bush is probably the most dangerous—and therefore the worst—president in the post-Second World War era.

• The New Yorker - Dead Certain

  http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/11/29/101129crbo_books_packer
  Reviews Bush's book Decision Points and finds it simpleminded and self-serving.

• The New Yorker - The Coming Wars

  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact
  Author Seymour Hersh writes that with Bush's second term, more wars, neo-con expansion, and Pentagon clandestine activities are on the way.

• Truthdig - Bush’s Legacy of Failure

  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080318_bushs_legacy_of_failure
  Examines actions of Bush over his two terms and concludes his presidency will be viewed as a terrible failure.

• Washington Post - He's Only Fifth Worst

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101475_pf.html
  A senior fellow at the New America Foundation says it is unfair to claim that George W. Bush is the worst U.S. president of all time - he's merely the fifth worst.

• Washington Post - He's The Worst Ever

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101509.html
  A Columbia University professor of history compares the Bush presidency with the lowest ranking previous U.S. presidents, as well as why, and concludes Bush is the absolute worst president in U.S. history.

• Washington Post - Rage of Reason

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110801810.html?nav=emailpage
  Columnist Eugene Robinson writes on how George W. Bush has in polls attained the worst ratings ever, and the disaster he is leaving for his successor.

• Washington Post - Why I Believe Bush Must Go

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404308.html?referrer=emailarticle
  Former senator George McGovern says that while Nixon was bad, Bush and Cheney are worse, and explains why the only honorable course is impeachment.

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