George W Bush

This is what makes journalism so great: A columnist at the Winnipeg Free Press wants to criticize Stephen Harper for smearing opponents. So what's she do? Smear him. The George W. Bush administration isn't gone, its policies and political style have just moved north. Like the Bush administration, the Harper government uses Karl Rovian tactics to smear and intimidate not just opposition critics, but parliamentary officers, heads of quasi...  

At a recent event in the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, I found myself with my arm around his waist and his arm around my shoulder, posed for a photo opportunity. George W Bush, the much reviled former President of the United States, was in an expansive mood that evening. Aside of his “base” in America, this was fawning that had to be seen to be believed. He is the unquestioned hero of India’s elite. A senior member of the ruling Congress...  

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...  

Right after the September 11, 2001, attacks, then-US President George W. Bush talked about possible links between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, a key adviser to former British Premier Tony Blair said Monday. David Manning, who served as Blair's top foreign policy aide before being appointed ambassador to Washington in 2003, told.  

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 ...  

Two nonprofit groups say that computer technicians have found 22 million White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush. WASHINGTON -- Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush, according to two groups that are settling lawsuits they filed over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system. The two...  

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...  

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...  

Jodie Shupac, National Post Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who became famous after hurling a pair of shoes at then U.S. president George W. Bush, got a taste of his own bizarre medicine on Tuesday when he had to dodge some flying footwear at a news...(read more)  

The al-Zeidi Society is a group of activists named for Muntadhar al- Zeidi, the man who threw his shoes at George W. Bush. During his trial, he said "…While he was talking, I was looking at all his achievements in my mind, more than a million ...  

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.  

CQPolitics.com - Parker Griffith survived a brutal open-seat campaign in 2008 and appeared to have at least a slight edge to keep Alabama's 5th District in the Democratic column in the 2010 election. On Tuesday, the conservative Democrat announced his decision to switch to the Republican Party.  

Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and George Bush can heave a sigh of relief now that news has come of use of waterboarding by British forces in Ireland during the 1970s. It proves the dynamic trio were simply using the same techniques of interrogation as used by British police against the Irish. Liam Holden in 1973 [...]  

Bloomberg - Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the state Republican Party without its potentially strongest candidate for Senate or governor in next year’s midterm election, announcing he won’t seek elective office in 2010.