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...intensely sincere, melodic moan pushes already overwrought lyrics to a point that will have many a cooler-than-thou music snob reaching for the volume knob. But truth is, Vanderslice cannot be faulted for over-dramatizing his material. With topics that include ground-level narratives from the War on Terror, the convoluted nightmare plot of Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and the singer’s own endless reserve of personal tragedies, it’s hard to sound...
Bush certainly knows how to look busy when it comes to defending the homeland, and his administration’s commitment to the War on Terror is almost never questioned. Just peruse the list: invading Afghanistan, invading Iraq, setting up military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, dramatically increasing the Justice Department’s surveillance authority, holding suspected terrorists without charges or access to a lawyer, slowing down the process of issuing visas to students and visitors, requiring people from “problem” countries to register their pictures and fingerprints with the Department of Homeland Security...
...often the case with the Bush administration, there’s much less there than meets the eye. Bush’s flagship efforts in the War on Terror have undeniably been his two traditional nation-on-nation wars—in Afghanistan and Iraq. How have they made us safer? Well, Afghanistan is probably the more successful of the two, considering that (unlike Saddam Hussein’s regime) the Taliban was actually giving material support to al Qaeda, and is now no longer in a position to do so. But how long will that last? Bush?...
...rest of the Bush War on Terror? Why did Bush’s Congress spend $8.5 million of the $87 billion Iraq and Afghanistan appropriation on security for November’s Free Trade Area of the Americas talks in Miami? That money, theoretically intended to further his “tough on terrorism” agenda, instead financed the silencing and imprisonment of dozens of non-violent protestors who dared to take issue with his politics...
...Spain now permits holding terror suspects incommunicado for up to 13 days. France boasts a raft of harsh laws dating from the mid-'80s when its terrorist threat began evolving from leftist radicals toward jihadists. A suspect can be tried for "associating with wrongdoers involved in a terrorist enterprise," detained without charge for up to six days - and, once charged, jailed for three years before trial. One French case now approaching the three-year mark is that of Djamel Beghal, a veteran of al-Qaeda's Afghan camps. After being arrested in the Dubai airport, Beghal confessed...