So What's an Example of Hyperbole?

For the past several years, New York Times editorials (and others form the Left) have decried various unsavory Bush actions that I agree are suspect on civil liberties. Fine, many deserve to be brought to light and discussed. But it seems like every one is an "unprecedented and outrageous assault" on our civil liberties. Maybe they forgot about FDR, one of our better presidents, who sent hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Lincoln defied a Writ of Habeus Corpus. This doesn't justify all of Bush's actions, but one must have some historical perspective.

Or comments to the effect that the Iraq War is the greatest foreign policy disaster of all time. The War was mismanaged, but, so far, the enemy hasn't sailed up the Potomac to burn the White House. That was a poorly run war.