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This week, the Iraqi Governing Council approved the new fundamental law, which will be the basis for a free constitutional democracy in the heart of the Middle East. Because we acted, because we did the right thing, the world is becoming more peaceful, and America is more secure. ...
The administration argued that it was not obliged to grant basic constitutional protections to the prisoners, because the base was outside U.S. territory; nor was it required to observe the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners of war and civilians during wartime, because the ...
Historians widely consider H.W. Bush to be an average president. However, while he was likely above average when it came to international relations, he was clearly below average regarding U.S. domestic issues, like the economy. This is clearly illustrated by the fact that Bush’s approval ra...
“community” poverty activist in Chicago and then going to law school to come back to Chicago to go into politics there. He was an American law professor teaching US Constitutional law and a lawyer working in civil rights areas. Aside from having little record in foreign policy in general, ...
Bush's assessment of the terrorist threat broadened beyond al Qaeda and Afghanistan to include any regime hostile to the United States. Following the Afghan war, Bush identified Iraq as the next threat, along with Iran and North Korea, referring to them as the "Axis of Evil." Over the cour...
And so this is a big issue; both Medicare and Social Security are big issues. They're big issues for long-term deficits, and they're big issues for the individuals who are going to be having to pay in the system for people like me. And the fix isn't all that hard. ...
George W. Obama? Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? The record shows impressive continuities between the two administrations, and nowhere more than in the policy of "force projection" in the Arab world. With one war half-ended in Iraq, but another doubled in size and...
George Bush "George W. Bush's War on Terror now seems to include the potential for the use of military force against Iraq." Whose right is it to declare war? Does the President have the power, the Congress? Some think that Congress has the Constitutional power to declare war, while ot...
importance; Oregonians also want us to push back on the Bush administration’s failure to take on global warming, its attacks on the environment, its illegal domestic spying, and its mindless opposition to children’s healthcare. I also care about these issues and continue to work on them ...