The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences(2009); Bob Woodward,Plan of Attack(2004); Michael Isikoff and David Corn.Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War(2006); Craig Unger,The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold...
Bush: I'm Getting off the Stage; So Long: George W Bush Leaves the Podium after His Final Presidential Press Conference at the White House This Afternoon. A Rueful President Admitted That the Iraq Prisoner Abuse Scandal and the Failure to Find WMDs Had Been among the Regrets of His Time ...
Bush. Almost overnight,Mr Bush has been changed from the dominating commander-in-chief, forcing friends and enemies to respond to what he wants, into a man at the mercy of events, accused by almost half his countrymen of doing a bad job, and facing a metastasising scandal to boot. This...
Bush’s second term as Vice President was marred by the Iran-Contra scandal. Though Bush was never implicated, the scandal took a significant toll on the popularity of the Reagan administration. Nevertheless, Bush would succeed Reagan as president and become elected as the 41st President of the...
His tenure commenced with the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, which shaped his foreign policy and led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Domestically, Bush enacted tax cuts and promoted education reform through the No Child Left Behind Act. His second term was dominated by ...
George H. W. Bush, the 41st U.S. president, was in office for the end of the Cold War and he was the father of the 43rd president.
(The Bush administration had frequently and vigorously denied that the United States practiced torture.) Abu Ghraib prisonScene from Errol Morris's documentary Standard Operating Procedure (2008), about the U.S. military scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.(more) The leak of the report came ...
George H.W. Bush advocated a "kinder, gentler" conservatism. He also pursued policies that helped topple the Soviet empire and initiated military campaigns that ousted Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and crippled Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
In 2003 George W. Bush was about to initiate an illegal war against Iraq and public demonstrations were coordinated across the globe. In Colorado Springs nearly 2,000 people assembled in Palmer Park along Academy Boulevard. The Springs rally looked to eclipse the antiwar events planned in Denver...
On August 2, 1990, Bush ordered U.S troops to Kuwait to free the country from an Iraqi invasion. In November, 400,000 more U.S troops were sent to the Middle East after Iraq threatened to invade Saudi Arabia. It was during Bush’s term that the number of immigrants to the U.S. ...