Some good links

A visit to the Bush Museum: http://www.vice.com/read/the-george-w-bush-museum-is-just-as-infuriating-as-you-think-it-is?utm_source=vicefbus

A pretty impressive study about reparations for blacks, highlighting the pernicious effects of housing inequality on top of the more familiar US racist policies: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Plenty of GOP lawmakers urged the White House to get Bergdahl back at any cost before recently changing their minds: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/bowe-bergdahl-release_n_5439644.html

A former Bush admin. security adviser: "Sometime in the next couple of years, whether it's in the beginning of 2015 or shortly thereafter, this conflict in Afghanistan is winding down, and we would be required, at least under the traditional laws of war, to return people that we've detained in that conflict," he said. "So it seems in this case, we've gotten -- we traded them for reasonable deal here."