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Bush Blinked 37 Times -- With A Lick Of The Lips, Three Weight Shifts And Serious Foot Jiggling...
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/131005Bush_blinked.htm
...the presidential eyes zoomed left, then right, then left and right again, then center, down and up at the interviewer. The presidential fidgeting spiked when Lauer mentioned the Democratic accusation that Bush was performing a "photo op." Bush pushed out his lower front lip, then licked the right corner of his mouth. Lauer's query about whether conservatives "are feeling let down by you" appeared to provoke furious jiggling of the right leg.

The Bush Years: Outrage, After Outrage, After Outrage

How Long Can This Go On?

Scandals Take Toll On Bush's 2nd Term

Inside the west wing the lowering atmosphere of dread is like that of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum: "Down - steadily down it crept."

Bush Photo-op With Soldiers Staged
to Match His Goals for Iraq War

George W. Bush's suicidal statecraft
Sixty years ago, Arnold Toynbee concluded, in his monumental "A Study of History," that the ultimate cause of imperial collapse was "suicidal statecraft." Sadly for President George W. Bush's place in history but - much more important - ominously for America's future, it has lately seemed as if that adroit phrase might be applicable to the policies pursued by the United States since the cataclysm of 9/11.

The territorial pissings in Iraq is now costing the United States $6 billion a month, up from about $5 billion a month last year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301521.html
The president's supporters have always portrayed Iraq as a simple choice between two extremes: Either support the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism, or oppose it and coddle the terrorists. But increasingly, voters are raising questions about whether Iraq has made the United States safer, drawing added attention to the spiraling costs -- both financial and human -- of the occupation.

Facing 'Financial Friendly Fire'
Hundreds of Army soldiers have been hit with "military debt" after being wounded at war.

 
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