guest_writer 0 2006-08-23T00:00:00Z Peculiarly, a lot of what American patriot Tom Paine wrote in 1775 about the British Crown seems to apply to President Bush today. For example, Paine believed, "any excuse can be made to serve the purpose of malignity when it is in power." And when ever was there a more deceitful example of this than Bush's lie that Iraq had WMD? As historian John Keane wrote in his excellent "T... Sherwood 31639 false false false false 2006-08-23T00:00:00Z Ross 10806 3331 0 1 Tom Paine on George Bush what-might-tom-paine-have-said-about-george-bush-by-sherwood-ross What Might Tom Paine Have Said About George Bush? 2009-09-24T12:01:51Z 10763