Saturday, February 2, 2008

THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER InternationalHeraldTribune: "A federal appeals court ruled against the Bush administration Friday in a central case on Guantánamo detainees, declining to reconsider an order that the government has to turn over virtually all its information on many detainees. Unless the Justice Department obtains a stay, the decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, will clear the way for detainees' lawyers to press 180 appeals cases of inmates at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, challenging their detentions. The cases contest decisions by military panels that the men are properly held as unlawful enemy combatants." IHT: "As many as 121 U.S. Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007, a jump of about 20 percent over the year before, officials said Thursday. The rise came despite numerous efforts to improve the mental health of a force stressed by a longer-than-expected war in Iraq and the most deadly year yet in the six-year conflict in Afghanistan." BoingBoing: "Authorities in Afghanistan have sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for having downloaded and shared copies of a report criticizing the oppressive treatment of women in some Islamic societies." George W. Bush may be proud of his achievements, but he is the worst president ever. 3:42:15 PM

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