If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia’s leaders reject their parliament’s appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response.
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What kind of lawbreaking has happened on President Bush’s watch, among his top and mid-level advisers? What hasn’t? Who is implicated and who is not? …the past seven years have yielded an embarrassment of riches when it comes to potentially prosecutable crimes. We have tried to sketch out a map of who did what when [...]

Can you guess which of these quotes belong to our president, George W. Bush, and which belong to Batman? It’s harder than you think…
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One of the hallmarks of events at which George Bush appeared was the complete elimination of any dissent. At the center of this suppressive policy was Gregory Jenkins, the former deputy assistant to President Bush. The placement of Jenkins in charge of McCain campaign events is already producing the same heavy-handed, dissent-suppressing tactics.
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One of the hallmarks of events at which George Bush appeared was the complete elimination of any dissent. At the center of this suppressive policy was Gregory Jenkins, the former deputy assistant to President Bush. The placement of Jenkins in charge of McCain campaign events is already producing the same heavy-handed, dissent-suppressing tactics.
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