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...presidential candidate Barack Obama, also took a shot at the Bush administration. He said that while the United States still attracts “many of the world’s most talented people,” misfires like the government’s handling of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Hurricane Katrina have hurt the country’s reputation.On the topic of economic inequality, the former Treasury Secretary cited the importance of both creating prosperity and spreading its benefits.“People who once felt security in heir communities, their livelihoods, their nation, and the world...
...chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument: that the Puritans' beliefs begot an American exceptionalism that, at its best, undergirded a nation's faith in liberty and equality and at its worst helped justify misadventures from South Vietnam to Abu Ghraib...
...scheduled Sept. 5 launch with an unprecedented three-network simulcast, hosted by Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson. It features a roster of stars, including a performance by cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge and a film by Errol Morris (who produced Standard Operating Procedure, an acclaimed documentary about Abu Ghraib abuses). "I will make you laugh," says Ziskin, who produced the show. "I will definitely make you cry." But so, too, would any name-your-disease telethon...
...Paradigm turned into a self-fulfilling prophesy. It legitimized al-Libi’s torture. The intelligence gleaned from his torture helped legitimize the Iraq War. The Iraq War promised to turn disaffected youths into a new generation of extremists. Meanwhile, the human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the CIA’s “black sites” hampered our ability to stem atrocities in countries like Sudan, Burma, and Zimbabwe...
Along one block, about 35 displaced Iraqi Shi'ite families from other neighborhoods occupy makeshift homes built with monetary help from the Sadr office. Most of them fled predominantly Sunni neighborhoods in and around Baghdad like al-Dora and Abu Ghraib when a rash of sectarian killings broke out in 2006. "This house was built by the Sadr office, not by the government," says Mohanid proudly...