by Robert Parry

In These Times

02/01/05

One of the most troubling crises confronting the world today is that the U.S. executive branch -- controlling the most fearsome arsenal in history -- has largely detached itself from reality and faces no counterforce in Washington capable of bringing it back down to earth. In that sense, George W. Bush's second inaugural address on January 20 stood out as a defining moment. Bush wrapped a grim record of presidential abuses -- an unprovoked invasion, extraordinary secrecy, tolerance of torture and indefinite imprisonments without trial -- in the noble cloak of 'freedom' and 'liberty,' words he uttered 27 and 15 times respectively, as if words can amend truth...

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