George W Bush

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...  

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 ...  

PBS.org | Huffington Post A viewer writes to PBS: "Really, PBS is going to allow the George W. Bush Institute to produce a television show for you?" Not quite; it's EPS that's distributing the institute's "Ideas for Action" to public television stations. Michael Getler calls this another case of "it's on PBS, but it's not PBS."  

WFAA's Brad Watson had the scoop that former president George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush tore down the million dollar home next door to their Preston Hollow house. Brad reports that the Bushes wanted a bit more...  

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...  

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 ...  

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...  

Via Alsumaria TV, An Iraqi journalist threw his shoe on Tuesday at Iraqi reporter Montazer Al Zaidi who was imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush.The shoe hit the wall next to Al Zaidi’s head. The attacker accused Al Zaidi of siding with dictatorship.Following the incident, Al Zaidi argued that he threw his shoe at occupation not at a fellow Iraqi citizen...  

Beer, hot dogs and an ex-presidentTHE former president looked healthy and well-rested, and happier than he has in recent years. He said that he had been enjoying walking his dog in his new neighbourhood in Dallas, although he misses being commander-in-chief. It was December 2nd, and George W. Bush was back on stage. Not the world stage, of course. The former vice-president, Dick Cheney, has been nipping at Barack Obama’s heels all year. But Mr...  

me, schools are issuing I-cards to children, libraries have installed metal detectors, and bombs are going off from Bali to Madrid. Bush: Never heard of these places but Oz, I still won. I didn't let you strike America a second time. Osama: I didn't need  

PHOTO: Former U.S. President George W. Bush with Barack Obama . When ignorance is Strength… In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hellfire ...  

Time magazine named President George W. Bush its Person of the Year for the second time. Opera singer Renata Tebaldi died in San Marino at age 82. One year ago: Citing imminent danger to the national economy, President George W. Bush ordered an ...  

Telegraph.co.ukFormer US President George W Bush initially seemed no more keen than ex ...BBC NewsTony Blair's ex-foreign policy adviser Sir John Sawers said the UK and US were agreed in early 2001 their containment policy for Iraq was "unsustainable". ...Iraq fell into chaos after US ignored Blair envoy's advice not to sack all ...Times OnlineSpy chief: UK wanted to indict SaddamNationalall 59 news articles »  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may ... hunt for bin Laden has been one of the signature frustrations of the global war on terrorism that former President George W. Bush launched after the Sept. 11 attacks. When U.S.  

AP - Democratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine says he believes his party's candidates will do well in the November elections despite two unexpected retirements because "there's a really corrosive civil war going on" in the Republican Party.