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A Study in the Rhetoric of George W. Bush

In his commencement speech to the class of 2007 at UC Berkeley’s Department of Rhetoric, author Mark Danner gives the new graduates a crash course in Bushian rhetoric (not quite on par with Aristotle’s celebrated canon) and dubs Bush the “first Rhetoric-Major President.”  (Note:  Article courtesy of Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch.com.)

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How Do the Iraqis Treat Their Prisoners?

A maverick U.S. Army major finds that some of his Iraqi counterparts have fewer scruples about going “over the line” while interrogating suspected insurgents. U.S. News & World Report has the story.

 

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