Bob McCarty Writes

Published under the GQ headline, “AND HE WILL BE JUDGED,” Robert Draper’s lengthy feature article about Donald Rumsfeld is chock full of criticism about the former secretary of defense and his boss in the Oval Office.  What I found more worthwhile about the article, however, were details about Scripture verses that began appearing on Pentagon [...]

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By Bob McCarty
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The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today [...]

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Results of a new Sacred Heart University poll released today show that, while President George W. Bush has the lowest positive job approval rating recorded, most of his policies and initiatives, over the years, were viewed favorably by moderate to strong majorities of those surveyed.
The FHU poll found the president’s job approval rating declined over [...]

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Spies, spooks and others involved in the gathering and collection of intelligence data are in high demand these days as employees of a nation engaged in a difficult and dangerous Global War on Terror. Thanks to a soon-to-be-launched promotion by McDonald’s, efforts to recruit new civilian and military intelligence agency employees might get a [...]

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“Iran was dangerous. Iran is dangerous. Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon.” — President George W. Bush

President George W. Bush made the above comment in response to a question about our dealings with Iran from NBC reporter David Gregory during a White House news conference [...]

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