I just can't envision myself, you know, the big straw hat and a Hawaiian shirt sitting on some beach. Particularly since I quit drinking.- President George W. Bush at his final press conference, 1.12.09This is the most self-aware statement our soon-to-be former president has ever uttered. Not only because he was willing to make a joke about his alcoholism. This was also the closest George W. Bush has ever come to using irony properly.He's a teetotaler, yet the last eight years have driven so ma
St. Louis-based Veterans for Peace is circulating a letter it plans to to send President Barack Obama demanding that the White House release photos of abusive treatment of detainees at the hands of U.S. troops. Obama had supported the release of the pictures to the public, but changed his mind in May, saying that he would try to block the court-ordered release of the photos. Obama's reversal came after U.S. commanders feared that the pictures depicting abusive treatment of detainees would cause
