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Truth-Out
February 6, 2018
The Bush neoconservatives embroiled the U.S. in a bloody war in Iraq in which millions of lives, both American and Iraqi, were lost. Not unlike the ... The term "hostilities" was never defined, and could have, in principle, included journalists critical of the Bush Administration's war policies. The writ of habeasÃÂ ...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
February 5, 2018
Democrats have found themselves racing to defend the FBI over the last month, proclaiming fury that a sharply critical Republican memo would undermine ... Democrats considered Bush a disaster while in office, blaming him both for a global financial meltdown and a disastrous war in Iraq built on falseÃÂ ...
New Hampshire Magazine
January 18, 2018
At critical points in those years we just weren't that into presidents from both parties, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama. At the same time, each of those elections had a subplot that dominated the campaign conversation. In 2006, it was the war in Iraq. In 2010, it was the recently passed Affordable Care Act.
Pacific Standard
January 15, 2018
They saw Kerry, who initially backed the war in Iraq and had only recently become a critic of it, as a better foil to George W. Bush. The perception of electability cost Dean his shot at the White House. Activists in both parties have long believed that the ideologue label can doom a presidential candidate.
The Independent
January 9, 2018
Government rejects pleas for stronger checks to prevent repeat of Blair's rush to war in Iraq ... A critical Commons report into lessons learnt from the Chilcot investigation originally warned that the Iraq War left an “indelible scar on British politics” and said that for many, “the Chilcot inquiry fails to provideÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Feith is best known as the top policy adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during George W. Bush's administration, and a divisive architect of the .... Korea obviously still isn't going well, and the Bush administration's war in Iraq produced the very mess that Rumsfeld feared Syria and Libya wouldÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
Meanwhile, critics of President Donald Trump—ranging from former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean (who literally wrote a book titled “Worse Than Watergate”) to former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum to Obama White House ethics czar Norm Eisen—allege wrongdoing on the part of theÃÂ ...
Daily Nexus
December 31, 1999
Rice is a controversial figure due to her role in the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq while working under the Bush administration. Critics accuse her of advocating for the war, despite doubts about the credibility of the intelligence regarding the building of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq's dictatorÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
His successor's remarks on Tuesday show that that was not exactly true. Here's how the previous two presidents have described the state of Afghanistan before Congress: 2002. Bush's remarks on January 29 came just months after the September 11 attacks and the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. He said:.
Task & Purpose
September 6, 2017
Specifically, it helps us answer a question that will be critical if we are to .... as an “earnest attempt to grasp the moral consequences of the war in Iraq. .... the fight against what President George W. Bush called the “axis of evil.
Vulture
September 6, 2017
Moore thinks it might be that he's been critical of the paper in the past. ... Had the New York Times done their job and fought Bush with the truth, where would we be today ... “The details are scarce,” said the Times critic. .... “Being against the war in Iraq after it started was a lonely position to have,” he recalls.
Vox
September 5, 2017
It seemed that left-wing interest in world affairs had been driven principally by opposition to Bush's Iraq policy. With Obama, who had promisedÃÂ ...
ABC News
August 19, 2017
In December 2008, there was potential drama when Barbra Streisand, a liberal critic of President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq, wasÃÂ ...
The Hill
August 16, 2017
Critics of the president even extended in part to the airwaves of Fox News. ... Bush and George W. Bush, implicitly condemned Trump's reaction to the ... after years of war in Iraq and the government's botched response to Hurricane Katrina. ... Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner and Trump critic who isÃÂ ...
CNN
August 13, 2017
The last Republican President, George W. Bush, also used provocative language after 9/11 that built momentum for a war in Iraq. ... Liberal critics would point to this speech, and other statements by Truman, as the momentÃÂ ...
Sky News
August 10, 2017
... critical of what she regarded as my sort of Oxford student socialism. ... tarnished by his decision to follow George W Bush in the war in Iraq.
Rappahannock News
December 31, 1999
In those critical first days, the New York Times wrote, Clarke was not merely in the ... Clarke ran afoul of the Bush administration, though, when he argued ... on going to war in Iraq distracted attention from the war on terrorism.
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
David Frum coined George W. Bush's infamous phrase “axis of evil,” in the .... and whose rise was fuelled by his opposition to the war in Iraq, our position is ... The more interesting question now is what those Trump critics whoÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
March 23, 2017
Since then, the Economist wrote last week, "Modi has done nothing to stifle a growing culture of intolerance in India, not just towards Muslims, but towards all critics of the prickly nationalism that the BJP espouses." Still, the decision by Modi's ...
Patriot Post
March 22, 2017
In March of 1991, after Operation Desert Storm - the first war in Iraq - President George H. W. Bush enjoyed a 90% public approval rating.
Independent Journal Review
March 21, 2017
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld played on that judgment to say during National Security Council meetings that when executing the war in Iraq, they shouldn't go about just "pounding sand," meaning sending cruise missiles into terrorist camp tents ...
Observer
March 16, 2017
Though the latest boost in troop deployment contradicts Trump's repeated stance against an interventionist foreign policy, his critics have remained silent and war hawks on both sides of the aisle likely support the decision. ... who served eight terms ...
RT
March 16, 2017
Critics were also split on the inquiry's usefulness. Some said it was rightly harsh on Blair-era ministers, while others, including the families of soldier killed in the war, lamented the fact it had no legal power and was solely focused on what ...
Christian Science Monitor
March 16, 2017
... at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. Instead of sticking to an agenda, she says, Mr. Trump and Ms. Merkel need to use this first face-to-face meeting to set in motion a "modus vivendi for these two leaders to ...
ITV News
March 15, 2017
In a critical report on the Chilcot Inquiry, the MPs warned that it would still be possible for a Prime Minister to disregard the proper Cabinet decision-making process along the lines of Mr Blair's notorious "I will be with you whatever" note to ...
NewsClick
March 15, 2017
As former president George W. Bush goes on a book tour to rehabilitate himself, we should remember that his administration spawned the architecture for the War on Terror.
Forward
March 15, 2017
In sports, spectators generally watch the ball. In politics, they generally watch the people who govern. Often, however, important dynamics occur offstage, as parties out of power remake themselves in exile.
Council on Foreign Relations
March 15, 2017
Dr. Haass was also special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1989 to 1993.
NewsClick
March 15, 2017
As former president George W. Bush goes on a book tour to rehabilitate himself, we should remember that his administration spawned the architecture for the War on Terror.
Valley News
March 15, 2017
It has been four years since a Romanian hacker named Marcel Lehel Lazar (aka Guccifer) hacked into Bush family email accounts and exposed to the world the former president's early paintings, including two self-portraits made in the bathroom.
Open Democracy
March 14, 2017
Beginning with the war in Iraq in 2003, the west's foreign policy had been essentially reduced by 2011 to a series of invasions in a vaguely defined war on terror.
American Spectator
March 14, 2017
I knew that this was all going to end when the left had achieved their objective: Their identity politics demographics would achieve critical mass and then the right would cease to exist. I overheard this ... "Free market" isn't the same as ...
War on the Rocks
March 14, 2017
Did Obama successfully end the war in Iraq, or did he help create the Islamic State by withdrawing U.S. troops too soon? ... often than he himself claimed, but Miller fails to mention that the worst flaws of Obama's foreign policy - an overreliance on ...
Utne Reader Online
March 14, 2017
CFR's three guests - retired General Raymond Odierno, former commander of Multinational Forces in Iraq and now a senior adviser to JPMorgan Chase; Meghan O'Sullivan, former deputy national security adviser under President George W. Bush; and ...
Roll Call
March 12, 2017
... of the production, Plame is outed by Washington Post columnist Robert Novak and ostracized by the agency while her husband becomes one of the most high-profile critics of the premise that President George W. Bush's administration's war in Iraq was ...
Pakistan Observer
March 8, 2017
Within this context, Jorge Chabat, a professor at Mexico's Centre for Research and Teachings in Economics (CIDE), argued that the critical issue facing Mexico is that "it does not have the institutions to fight this war." As regard to the issue of ...
History
March 8, 2017
During the meeting, held nine months before the war in Iraq began, the head of British Secret Intelligence Services (MI6) said his impression from meetings in the United States was that military action was now "inevitable.
Mondoweiss
March 8, 2017
When considering this administration's efforts at media manipulation it would be helpful to remember the path that led the United States to war in Iraq. ... To acknowledge the critical role of oil in U.S. Middle East policy, for example, is a ...
Voice of America
March 8, 2017
"I don't want to undermine our presidents," he told VOA in a recent interview at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
WEEI.com
March 3, 2017
Progress the count of three from my father was my day my vision for George much better you are being shown trump George W. Bush spent eight years. Holding his time in criticize ... When he wins he profiling covered the war in Iraq right. When this ...
ELLE.com
March 2, 2017
But he also labeled her a "West Coast" social critic, a ghettoizing dismissal that her friend Green thinks may have kept her out of the mainstream even as her work was passed around among second-wave feminists, environmentalists, and native San ...
Oxford Research Group
March 1, 2017
Finally, and most overlooked, why is there such a disconnect between the intense war in Iraq and Syria and the perception of threat in the UK?
Arab News
March 1, 2017
Even his most fiery critics such as CNN commentator Van Jones said parts of Trump's speech were "the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics.
The Federalist
March 1, 2017
The scandal and resignation of former National Security Adviser Flynn bears more than a few disturbing similarities to a scandal that, a decade ago, brought the Bush administration to its knees. I am referring, of course, to the Valerie .... House ...
The Guardian
February 28, 2017
The reasons given were vague at first, but eventually came down to the fact he supported a charity the Bush administration labelled a fundraiser for Hamas.
The Nation.
February 28, 2017
Donald Trump used his first Joint Address to the Congress of the United States to engage in an unprecedented flight of fiscal fantasy.
The Morning Sun
February 28, 2017
Protesters chant outside the Grayson County courthouse in downtown Sherman, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. In an action called "A Day Without Immigrants," immigrants across the country are expected to stay home from school, work and closeÃÂ ...
Truthdig
February 26, 2017
In 1975, producer Bert Schneider accepted the best-documentary Oscar for "Hearts and Minds," a film deeply critical of the Vietnam War, reading a cable from the Viet Cong delegation.
The Hill (blog)
February 26, 2017
To critics, the ban and the president's call for "extreme vetting" are outrageous and bigoted, an infringement of personal rights.
ABC News
February 24, 2017
For decades, going to the movies has given people a two-hour escape from the daily news cycle. But at the Academy Awards -- the pinnacle event in Hollywood -- winners on occasion have used the platform to bring attention to political issues.
