Short-term memory, political style

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I was just re-reading some of my LJ posts from 2003 (the "Calendar" view makes that really easy), and came across an omnibus political post from August 31 with two pieces which resonate particularly strongly today:

Incidentally, Jim Henley's Unqualified Offerings is all over the, as he put it, American government's increasingly open embrace of torture.

and

Ah, and according to a UPI article, Bush has decreed:

Perhaps the only hope lies in the story going around town that President Bush has told the Pentagon he wants "no more American dead" after next March.

Also, he will hie himself in his royal sedan chair to the Chesapeake Bay and prohibit the tides from flowing.