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Dick Cheney admits being a supporter of the near-drowning torture technique called waterboarding, even if the US generally regards its use as a war crime. Robert Parry, author of a new book entitled Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, writes in AlterNet, “Cheney was unrepentant about his support for the technique. [...]

The end of the Bush era also signals the end of the neocons, those swaggering gut-busting corporate/intellectual Rambos who encouraged the highly impressionable president to invade Iraq. As American taxpayers can ascertain by now, neoconservative philosophy influenced the Bush administration’s foreign policy. The neocon species was first sighted [...]