George Bush

Did Saddam Hussein's fall and the formation of a fledging democracy in Iraq encourage and embolden regime-threatening dissent in Iran? The anti-Iraq War crowd, many of whom suffer from Give-George-W.-Bush-No Credit-for-Anything Disease, says, "No, of ...  

At the end of the first year of Barack Obama's administration, there's something moving in the shadows of Mount Doom. It wasn't there while George Bush was in charge. But Barack Obama is no George Bush. And the strategy of blaming Bush ...  

There was no terrorist attack on 9/11. It was the fruition of a criminal enterprise. That, at least, is Barack Obama’s working theory on what happened that day. It would be one thing if our lives were not at stake. Barack Obama has decided he is going to show the world that George Bush was wrong in how he conducted the war on terror. Bush decided to send foreign terrorist enemies to GTMO for questioning by the military and, in a few cases, to...  

I suppose some will agree with a mouthful of ashes: “Damn right Bush is the man of the decade – a decade that sucked!” As you prefer. But the argument here is that George W. Bush ought to be the man of the aughts mostly for the right reasons. I would also argue that he is smack dab at the center of what was best and worst about this decade. The best, because Bush was a rare president who saw governing as a higher calling than his own political...  

In the cold light of history, I’m sure there will be plenty of blame to be laid at the feet of one George W. Bush, but blaming him for movies? Well, that’s what Ramin Setoodeh over at Newsweek is proposing — Wow I really did not think they could be so stupid  

PARIS — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris. Muntadhar al-Zeidi ducked and the shoe hit the wall behind him. "He stole my technique," al-Zeidi later quipped. The identity of the new shoe-thrower – and his motivation – weren't immediately clear, but he appeared to be an...  

Allright.  I guess I have to be part of the Green Party pile on.  I have a lot of friends in European Green Parties, they’re great people, and they actually manage to get into office, thanks largely to parliamentary style party list systems.  And once in office, they play ball, because that’s what politics is [...]  

Imagine if George W. Bush was Bodysurfing... ...when an airline terror plot almost succeeded in killing 300 inside the U.S. on Christmas Day. Imagine then if his Homeland Security Secretary, in a bizarrely self-congratulatory mode, said that "everything happened that should have" to thwart the attack. A man who never should have been allowed anywhere near the U.S. managed to hang on to a multiple entry visa and nearly carry out the worst...  

PARIS — A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush. Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the "victims of the US occupation in [...]  

PARIS (AFP) - A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush. Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the "victims of the US occupation in Iraq" when a fellow Iraqi critic turned the tables on him, shouting: "Here's another shoe for you." The thickset man with...  

Bush administration spokesperson Dana Perino on Fox News on November 24: "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term." Bush/Cheney staffer Mary Matalin on CNN on December 27: I was there. We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history. And President Bush dealt with it. They inherited the 9/11 attacks. Got it? They didn't ignore...  

Iraq shoe thrower Zaidi faces Paris shoe-ing (BBC, 12/01/09) The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-throwing attack. Muntadar al-Zaidi was speaking about Iraqi war victims at a news conference in Paris, but managed to duck in time. Media reports said the attacker was an exiled Iraqi journalist who defended US policy and accused Zaidi of "working for...  

There was the press pass at the bottom of a drawer Sunday, from Jan. 9, 2008, Saint Peter's College, "Change We Can Believe In" written in great big white and blue letters. It was the first time I ever saw and heard Barack Obama speak in person, heard the highest language and ideals we had gotten from a presidential candidate since Robert F. Kennedy 40 years before him. "We are at a defining moment in our history," he said that day. Now...  

PARIS | The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine. Muntadhar al-Zeidi nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris on Tuesday.  

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-throwing attack. Muntadar al-Zaidi was speaking about Iraqi war victims at a news conference in Paris, but managed to duck ...