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    New Reports Raise Questions About Bush's Iraq Legacy

    With a month left in office, the Bush Administration is getting reviews and voicing its own assessments of the past eight years. An unpublished official history of the Iraq reconstruction says it was crippled before it began and bungled in execution.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    With a month left in office, the Bush Administration is getting reviews and voicing its own assessments of the past eight years. An unpublished official history of the Iraq reconstruction says it was crippled before it began and bungled in execution. John McCain and other Republicans signed a unanimous Senate report that so-called "abusive" interrogation techniques in the war on terror were not the work of a few low-level "bad apples" at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, but that top Administration officials, including Donald Rumsfeld, Air Force General Richard Myers and Condoleezza Rice, signed off on water-boarding and other practices some call torture. Now, Vice President Cheney says that's true. Should he and others be praised for protecting the country or investigated for possible crimes?

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      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Producer, 'One year Later'

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    2 of 3
    Will the Outgoing Administration Be Called to Account by the New One?
    1. 1:34Obama Announces More Cabinet Picks
    2. 7:22New Reports Raise Questions About Bush's Iraq LegacyYou’re reading this
    3. 42:24Fed Lowers Interest Rate to Historic Lows
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