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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:00 AM

The buck stops where?

Our delusional president laments the "intelligence failure" that identified nonexistent WMD in Iraq and admits he was "unprepared" for war.

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  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 07:25 PM

    Bush: Dishonest or simply clueless?

    The extraordinary divergence between Bush's version of events, and those perceived by most people who read, who think, and are curious to know and understand the world, have an alternate explanation besides dishonesty on Bush's part.

    It may simply be that President Bush really sees things that way, and what we are actually hearing are the manipulations and distortions of reality that have been whispered in Bush's ear by Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, as well as others in his administration.

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