GEORGE W. BUSH

11-28-06   Bush Dismisses Talk of Civil War in Iraq    On the eve of a high-profile trip to Jordan to meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq, President Bush on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that Iraq has descended into civil war, blamed Al Qaeda for the latest wave of sectarian violence and vowed not to withdraw troops “until the mission is complete.”

11-20-06   President’s lie shows sad state of our nation    This is not a matter of vengeance or, God forbid, politics, but of restoring the people’s faith in their government. How dare these people lie to you and me and send Americans to die in Iraq for reasons that turned out to be wholly nonexistent? One way to return to the truth is to find the liars.

09-13-06   Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening'    President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."

09-12-06   President Tries to Win Over a War-Weary Nation    President Bush's Oval Office speech last night was the culmination of two weeks of efforts to rally the nation behind his policies and presidency by summoning the memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Five years after that indelible day, however, this president's capacity to move the public is severely diminished.

06-08-06   $1 million Moonie mystery   Moon gave the money to the Houston foundation as a pass-through to the presidential library of the elder President Bush. It wouldn't be the first connection between Moon and Bush.

05-28-06   Is Bush the worst ever?   Here's a proposition - Bush is the worst president in the history of this great land. True or false? After all, someone has to be the worst. So, what's the evidence?

05-26-06   Blair and Bush - an extract   Extract from George Bush and Tony Blair's press conference at the White House

05-26-06   The hardest word   What was going through the minds of those who advised George W Bush and Tony Blair to 'come clean' about their shortcomings regarding the war in Iraq? President Bush kicked himself for "talking too tough", while the British prime minister ruminated on the decision to disband the Ba'athist infrastructure.

05-22-06   Call the troops, run for cover   President Bush's plan to add a few thousand National Guard troops to this bristling contingent has little relevance. If years of building a high-tech arsenal and placing an army of guards along the southern border hasn't already amounted to a "militarization," then what, exactly, would you call it? A failure, of course. But that is almost beside the point.

05-22-06   Desperate Bush turns to the National Guard    For a brief moment last month, Bush behaved like a responsible leader instead of a partisan demagogue. On the issue of immigration he followed his better instincts by seeking compromise. Then he must have looked at the polls showing that the Republican base is deserting him--and panicked.

05-21-06   Bush's Base Betrayal   I've never seen conservatives so downright fed up as they are today. The current relationship between Washington Republicans and the nation's conservatives makes me think of a cheating husband whose wife catches him, and forgives him, time and time again. Then one day he comes home to discover that she has packed her bags and called a cab -- and a divorce lawyer.

04-07-06   Bush takes a leak   You have to hand it to the Bush Administration. It's never dull. Illegal invasions, illegal torture, illegal criminal tribunals, illegal wire-tapping, blatant lies, booming deficit spending, hurricanes ignored, proposals signed into law without Congressional approval? It's an Orwellian smorgasbord!

03-31-06   Myth vs. Reality on Bush's warrantless wiretapping program: A fact check on a presidential crime   

03-27-06   How George W. Bush unified Latin America    Bush has presided over one of the most significant political re-alignments in the history of the Western Hemisphere. By this summer, every major Latin American nation but Colombia is likely to be run by elected leaders with stronger backgrounds in Marx than free markets. If Cold War-era "domino theory" has been a bust in the Middle East, it's working with textbook precision in Latin America.

03-24-06   Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement   When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.

03-22-06   Those Lies, Again   Bush’s statement is false both in suggesting that Resolution 1441 authorized the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq – when it actually demanded that Iraq submit to arms inspections – and in claiming that Hussein “chose to deny the inspectors.” In reality, Hussein accepted the U.N. inspectors in November 2002, granted them unrestricted access to suspected sites and announced – accurately as it turned out – that Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.

12-20-05   The Fog of False Choices   After five years, we're used to President Bush throwing up false choices to defend his policies. But none of these phony choices were as absurd as the one Mr. Bush posed to justify his secret program of spying on Americans: save lives or follow the law.

01-19-06   Hiding behind the troops   When the CIA tried to hit Ayman Zawahiri with a missile fired from a Predator drone and ended up killing more than a dozen civilians, that was dumb. When Bush did not quickly apologize, offer compensation to the victims and announce there would be an immediate investigation, that was also dumb. The White House is all set to point an accusatory finger and scold, "Partisan lips sink ships." It's their counterattack, and Bush has started test-driving it-in a pre-emptive fashion.

12-11-05   Is Bush playing 'three card monte' with the issues?   Beware of any aces with a telltale crease that seems to offer a quick chance to take some money away from an inept magician. It's an old ploy, but it still works. Recently, while listening to one of the conservative radio talk show hosts, I heard someone make a flip remark about how Dubya had glibly dismissed some objections to the war in Iraq by saying that the 2004 election had been a referendum on the reasons for and the conduct of the search by American troops for Weapons of Mass Destruction inside the borders of Iraq.

12-10-05   Bush rejects timetable for troop withdrawal at Minneapolis fundraiser    President Bush rejected calls to set a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in a speech in Minneapolis today. He predicted that, by seeing the war through to success, America would inspire positive developments in the Middle East, including in unfriendly regimes. Across the street, between 200 and 300 protesters demonstrated displeasure with Bush and the war before and during the president's speech.

12-09-05   Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper    “Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.” “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

12-07-05   'Holiday' Cards Ring Hollow for Some on Bushes' List    President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy "holiday season." Some conservative Christians are reacting as if Bush stuck coal in their stockings. "This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," said William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

12-01-05   Censorship with bombs   Given the intense hatred that the Bush administration has for journalists and independent reporting, the news that in April 2004, President Bush seriously contemplated bombing the Qatar headquarters of the Arab news channel al-Jazeera, isn't surprising. Censorship with bombs is certainly in keeping with the Bush administration's style.

11-21-05   Bush leaves China with few gains   The official China Daily trumpeted."Leaders highlight common interests". A survey in the China Youth Daily suggested that 55% disliked the US as a country. More than three-quarters of respondents said the US often interfered in other country's internal affairs, while two-thirds thought the US tries to use economics to dominate other countries. It seems this short visit by Mr Bush has failed to win over the Chinese public.

11-20-05   George W. Bush, Bogus conservative   No wonder this president's support is crumbling, says Jeffrey Hart. He has betrayed the conservative movement by governing contrary to reality.

11-17-05   Ludendorff, not Lincoln   Bush's White House is dismissive of history, yet increasingly desperate to rewrite it. His political capital already appears spent, and he has retreated from the ruins of his grandiose agenda into a defence of his past.

11-16-05   In challenging war's critics, administration tinkers with truth   Bush said he agreed with Vice President Dick Cheney, who on Wednesday had accused some unnamed senators who oppose the administration's Iraq war policy of lacking "backbone" and making "reprehensible charges" that Bush and his aides "purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence."

11-12-05   Bush pounds his 9/11 theme, again   There have been many atrocities round the world. But the only reason there are atrocities in Iraq, and especially Baghdad, is because Bush invaded that country, which had done America no harm and posed no threat whatever to the US or its people. The soldiers of Bush have committed and continue to commit appalling atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. They burn, kill and destroy without fear of judicial proceedings, and their jamborees of torture and murder, when they cannot be disguised, are met with derisory lenience.

11-11-05   President Commemorates Veterans Day, Discusses War on Terror    While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war.

11-08-05   Orwell's Oceania and Bush's America: Coming together   Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever..."

11-07-05   Bush defends detainees policy.    We do not torture,' president says   Bush spoke at a news conference with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos on the last day of a five-day Latin America trip.

11-04-05   Faith and fraud: Bush's empire of lies   A factitious picture of the world built up by the Bush Administration over its five years in power is now going to pieces before our eyes. Great jagged spikes of reality are tearing into it on all sides. The disrespected world of facts, an exacting master, is putting down this governmental insurrection against its ineluctable laws.

10-31-05   U.S. PRESIDENT WARY OF ITALIAN PM, SAYS FORMER ADVISOR   United States president George W. Bush no longer trusts Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi after remarks he made stating he did not want the US and Britain to attack Iraq in 2003 and sought instead to persuade Bush to allow Libya's leader Muammer Gaddafi to mediate with Saddam.

10-29-05   Visa policies to get tighter   "Our job now is to find the evil ones and bring them to justice," the president said during the first meeting of his homeland security team.

10-26-05   Why Bush is unimpeachable   The Founding Fathers, who were smart enough to think of just about everything, dropped the ball when they drafted the article that provides for presidential impeachment.

10-26-05   Mr. Dilbert goes to Washington   With the Bush administration spiraling into political free fall, conservative elder statesmen have suddenly begun speaking publicly about the regime's manifest failures. Meanwhile, aides whisper to reporters that the president's losing it, pitching temper tantrums, lashing out at junior staffers and blaming everybody in the White House for his problems except himself.

10-26-05   The limits of Bush's mind   The Bush administration is forever instructing us in "the lessons of 9/11." One would think that a primary moral of that event would be that we are all at risk from those who are sure that they are the chosen of God.

10-12-05   A snake oil president   Bush and company sold Americans defective goods in clear violation of federal law. Yet Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hasn't budged. Instead, the man charged with enforcing our laws has tasked his army of lawyers to throw a legal shield around the White House

10-11-05   Government by Temper Tantrum   President George W. Bush’s temper tantrums are on the rise with White House insiders reporting increasing tongue-lashing of staffers, obscenity-filled outbursts and a leader driven to the edge by what he sees as party disloyalty and a country that no longer trusts him.

10-07-05   Making sense of the Miers nomination   The Miers nomination appears heading toward a harder-than-expected fight. But if Bush and his political tough guys - the likes of Karl Rove and Tom DeLay - do end up facing serious criminal troubles, they might thank their lucky stars if one of Bush's "vestal virgins" is protecting their legal flanks from a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

10-03-05   Bush Dunnit    The implication is that Bush and Cheney took part in discussions with Karl Rove, Lewis Libby and other administration spinmeisters about what to do about that pesky Joseph Wilson IV. Who outed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative? Bush did it!

09-29-05   More Progress In Iraq   Voice of America editorial reflecting the views of the United States Government

09-16-05   Bush Pledges Historic Effort To Help Gulf Coast Recover    President Bush, summoning the American spirit and "a faith in God no storm can take away," vowed from the heart of the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone Thursday night to rebuild this devastated city and the rest of the Gulf Coast with "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen."

09-16-05   A Bid to Repair a Presidency   The main text of President Bush's nationally televised address last night was the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, but the clear subtext was the rebuilding of a presidency that is now at its lowest point ever, confronted by huge and simultaneous challenges at home and abroad -- and facing a country divided along partisan and racial lines.

09-14-05   Bush's hacks   While we are about to have a new chief justice who condemns affirmative action for black and brown kids, affirmative action for privileged white men has led to decisions that have cost this nation and the planet tens of thousands of lives.

09-14-05   President Says He's Responsible in Storm Lapses   In response to a reporter who asked if Americans, in the wake of the hurricane, should be concerned about the government's ability to respond to another disaster or a terrorist attack, Mr. Bush said: "I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government, to be able to answer that very question that you asked

09-12-05   How Bush Blew It    Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.

09-07-05   FEMA chain of command composed of weak links    Top officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have strong political connections to President Bush, but they also share at least one other trait: they had little or no experience in disaster management before landing in top FEMA posts.

8 14 05   Bush defends ignoring protest   ‘‘I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy,'' he said when asked about bike riding while a grieving mom wanted to speak with him. ‘‘And part of my being is to be outside exercising.''

08-13-05   President snubs war protesters   From the window of his limousine, President George W. Bush got a motorcade view of more than 100 war protesters camped outside his ranch as he rode to a political fundraiser yesterday near his spread. Bush did not stop.

08-12-05   President Tries to Resolve Mixed Signals After Pentagon Remarks   Despite planning by senior Pentagon officials for a potential troop reduction as early as next spring, Bush was not certain Iraqis could handle their own security well enough for the United States to begin leaving anytime soon. Ms. Sheehan's constant presence and her soft-spoken, articulate presentation has presented a thorny issue for a White House that prides itself on its strong alliance with active and retired members of the military.

08-03-05   Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate   Although he said that curriculum decisions should be made by school districts rather than the federal government, Bush told Texas newspaper reporters in a group interview at the White House on Monday that he believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution as competing theories.

07-23-05   Rovegate—let's pull the thread!    Why hasn't President Bush fired Rove for outing Wilson's wife and ending her career as a CIA operative and endangering the lives of those who worked for her. If we do pull the thread long enough, we will unravel an organized conspiracy to take America to war, illegally, unconstitutionally. Keep pulling the thread and we see the emperor has no clothes, no defense. The commander in chief gave a nod to this all.

07-11-05   Are the good times really over for good?   They applauded, when they should have been wailing in anguish while collapsing under an unbearable sense of national loss. But no. Grinning like cartoon caricatures, they applauded an in-your-face war criminal -- a great deceiver who is openly intent on destroying everything that is, or ever was, good in their lives. You'd think the souls of true Christians would surely shrivel when a man who claims Jesus Christ as his "philosopher" murders hundreds of thousands of innocents

06-26-05   Battered Bush watches as support ebbs away    With memories of his poll victory still fresh, the President already seems a lame duck. Backing for the Iraq war has collapsed and his domestic agenda is in disarray. Even his party is rebelling

03-31-05   George W. Bush, the Frightened Man   It is not terrorism that motivates George, or patriotism, or even profiteering. It is fear, pure and simple: Fear of the truth, fear of the world, fear of any data that collides with his faith-based bubble-encapsuled worldview, and fear most of all of the people he would represent.

03-25-05   Bush approval slips to 45%, lowest of his presidency

03-21-05   Europe's leaders are awarded topics for their presidential chat   George Bush is known to be a busy man. There have also been question-marks in the past over his attention span and dislike of protracted debate, but, even by the standards of the Bush White House, the assembled heads of Europe will be given short shrift tomorrow when they gather to address the President of the United States.

03-15-05   Administration Rejects Ruling On PR Videos   The Bush administration, rejecting an opinion from the Government Accountability Office, said last week that it is legal for federal agencies to feed TV stations prepackaged news stories that do not disclose the government's role in producing them. Critics have derided such video news releases as taxpayer-financed attempts by the administration to promote its policies in the guise of independent news reports.

03-14-05   The implications of the looting of Iraq's weapons plants   Although the evidence clearly demonstrates the WMD allegation to be a ruse, it was the only fig leaf available to a president obsessed with regime change who also sought to avoid looking like a war criminal under post-Nuremberg international law.

02-25-05   Lost in Europe   President Bush has reached a dead end in his foreign policy, but he has failed to recognise his quandary. His belief that the polite reception he received in Europe is a vindication of his previous adventures is a vestige of fantasy.

02-25-05   Candid criticism   American appreciation of Russian help in the "war on terror" - the dominant theme in their relations since 9/11 - has faded as calls have multiplied from influential quarters in Washington for firm action to curb backsliding from democratic norms. The background was cooler than during their first summit encounter in Slovenia in June 2001, when Mr Bush famously looked deep into Mr Putin's eyes, got a feel for his soul and found him trustworthy.

02-24-05   Bush in Europe: The visiting Emperor   The President's tone throughout has been more that of a visiting emperor than a unifier—telling the Russians to shape up and smacking down the Germans for shilly-shallying. It's the righteous language we heard before we invaded Iraq, with Bush issuing threats under the guise of a "higher morality."

02-24-05   The Germans Bush Wasn't Able to See   President Bush is not the first president named Bush to come to this town on the Rhine, but the very physical circumstances of this president's stopover here suggest how different, how less automatically warm, German-American relations are now than they were when his father stopped in Mainz 16 years ago.

02-22-05   Doomed to fail   North Koreas's dramatic public revelation that it possesses nuclear weapons represents a stark challenge for the Bush administration. The North Korean claim, if true, underscores the failure of President Bush's nonproliferation policies that since the beginning of his first term had been subordinated to a grander vision of regime change. That policy was intended to transform strategically vital regions of the world into Western-style democracies supportive of the United States and the Bush administration's vision of American global dominance.

02-10-05   White House queried on media policy   In a letter to President Bush yesterday, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., called for an explanation of how a Talon News reporter who used the pseudonym "Jeff Gannon" was admitted to White House briefings.Gannon resigned late Tuesday amid a flurry of accusations about his professional credentials and links to the Republican Party.

02-10-05   Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link     A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution.

02-01-05   A Sneaky Bid for Arctic Oil   For the fifth consecutive year, the administration is seeking congressional approval to industrialize parts of the Alaskan North Slope. Thwarted in the past in up-or-down votes in the Senate, the administration now is attempting to win approval by slipping a rider into the budget bill. The thinking is that no one would risk the wrath of voters by trying to kill the budget just because it contained the refuge rider. Think again.

01-14-05   WMD hunt ends; Bush's spin goes on   When White House spokesman Scott McClellan opened up his daily press briefing yesterday, he said, "This will be the only question of the briefing." He was joking. But it turned out that the first question--a response to the news the Iraq Survey Group had ended its hunt for weapons of mass destruction after finding absolutely nothing--was practically the only question of the day.

01-08-05   Something's gotta give   We're now led by men who think that macho posturing makes Stein's Law go away. On issues ranging from budgets to foreign policy, they insist that we can sustain the unsustainable. And when challenged to explain how, they engage in magical thinking.

01-02-05   'Inaugural's wretched excess inappropriate for nation at war'   Mr. President, just as strapping into a flight suit doesn't necessarily make you a fighter pilot, an inauguration - no matter how many flags wave or how many marching bands play - doesn't necessarily make you a leader.

12-29-04   PRAVDA, IZVESTIA, TIME   It's amazing how useful a bad writer can be in exposing the vagaries of mainstream thought. Last time I checked, the press was not supposed to be part of the ruling structure in our system of government. And these people think bloggers need a comeuppance?

11-14-04   Bob Jones III - Letter to President Bush    In your re-election, God has graciously granted America -- though she doesn't deserve it -- a reprieve from the agenda of paganism.

10-15-04   Poll reveals world anger at Bush    Eight out of 10 countries favour Kerry for president

10-12-04   Challenging Rest of the World With a New Order   The United States is at war, it needs everybody's support and that support is not negotiable. It is a characterization of Mr. Bush's foreign policy style often heard around the world: bullying, unreceptive, brazen. The result, critics of this administration contend, has been a disastrous loss of international support, damage to American credibility, the sullying of America's image and a devastating war

10-08-04   The rumor is flying around the globe. Was the president wired?   Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his first debate with John Kerry? That's the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate. Suggestions that Bush may have using this technique stem from a D-day event in France, when a CNN broadcast appeared to pick up -- and broadcast to surprised viewers -- the sound of another voice seemingly reading Bush his lines, after which Bush repeated them.

10-03-04   Iraq: Politics or Policy?   The Bush team got its doctrines mixed up: it applied the Powell Doctrine to the campaign against John Kerry. For all of President Bush's vaunted talk about being consistent and resolute, the fact is he never established U.S. authority in Iraq. Never. This has been the source of all our troubles.

09-28-04   Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions   The same intelligence unit that produced a gloomy report in July about the prospect of growing instability in Iraq warned the Bush administration about the potential costly consequences of an American-led invasion two months before the war began.Officials who have read the July 2004 National Intelligence Estimate have said that even as a best-case situation, it predicted a period of tenuous stability for Iraq. The worst of three cases cited in the document was that developments could lead to civil war. Some Democratic senators have asked that the document be declassified, but administration officials have called that prospect unlikely.

09-28-04   Bush Disputes Charge of Favorable Treatment in Guard   "No. I don't... I'm not aware of it," Bush said in the interview broadcast on Tuesday when asked whether family connections had helped him get a coveted place in the Guard.

09-17-04   Judge Orders Pentagon to Find Bush Guard Records

09-10-04   Why conservatives must not vote for Bush   Serious conservatives should deny their votes to Bush. "When it comes to choosing a president, results matter," the president says. So true. A Kerry victory would likely be bad for the cause of individual liberty and limited government. But based on the results of his presidency, a Bush victory would be catastrophic. Conservatives should choose principle over power.

07-18-04   The biggest crime in American history and planes are grounded. Yet the House of Saud gets safe passage home    The ties between the Bush family and the Saudi royals are revealed in a hard-hitting new book by Craig Unger, a key source for Michael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11'.

07-09-04   Bush Walks Out on Media, Refuses to Answer Questions About Relationship With Ken Lay   In addition to Lay's political campaign donations, he and his wife contributed $100,000 to Bush's 2001 inauguration. Lay also was a fund-raiser for Bush, bringing in at least $100,000 for the president's 2002 campaign. That put Lay in "Pioneer" status as one of the president's top money-raisers.

06-00-04   Is it time for Bush to press the panic button?   Their wars are stalled, the world knows the wars are based on lies and deceptions, and Americans are starting to resent spending their money and children's blood to conquer the Mideast for the NeoCon's masters. While some media companies are still toeing the line, such as the Sinclair Group, other mainstream media outlets are running stories which are clearly damaging to the administration. They NEED an event that will scare the people of the United States into accepting whatever dictates they are handed.

05-12-04   Cease Fire Now, Mr. "War President"    No oil, then no "Mission Accomplished" after all, right Mr. President "Bring `Em On"? Twelve thousand innocent Iraqi citizens, who did nothing to any US citizen, are DEAD, and over 750+ innocent US troops (and counting) are dead. Please apologize, and fire your cabinet, just before you resign. The rest of us will try and save our nation.

05-03-04   The Divine Calm of George W. Bush    When the drunken and dissolute prodigal finally found Jesus in the mid 1980s, the book of the Bible his study group was poring over was the Acts of the Apostles. "It's focused on missionizing, evangelizing, spreading the faith," Lincoln explains. "It's not end-of-the-world stuff. It's expansionist—it's religious imperialism, if you will. And I think that remains his primary orientation."

04-19-04   Bush Plans Aid to Build Foreign Peace Forces    A plan approved by Bush calls for the US to commit about $660 million to train, equip and provide logistical support to forces in nations willing to participate in peace operations. The campaign, known as the Global Peace Operations Initiative, will be aimed largely at Africa. The initiative grows out of the frequent struggle by administration officials to recruit enough foreign forces

04-18-04   House of Bush, House of Saud     On September 13, 2001, the US imposed a nationwide no-fly zone, and yet more than 140 individuals were permitted to leave the country. Nearly all were Saudi, and roughly two dozen were kin to Osama bin Laden. Who allowed them to leave? Given that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, what was the rush in squandering what may have been an intelligence mother lode?

02-12-04   The content of his character    When Bush ran for president he asked us to judge him by the content of his character. He wouldn't lie, he said. He stood for truth, religion and family values. When he persuaded the public to support the war in Iraq, he asked us to trust his moral clarity. Now he faces an erosion of trust by a public that feels it may have been deceived -- about his military record, about the need for a pre-emptive war in Iraq and about the man himself.

01-15-04   Surreal moments serving a mythological president    Leafing through the CIA documents, Mr O'Neill was astonished to read plans for covert assassinations around the globe designed to remove opponents of the US Government. The plans had virtually no civilian checks and balances. "What I was thinking is, 'I hope the President really reads this carefully', Mr O'Neill said. "It's kind of his job. You can't forfeit this much responsibility to unelected individuals"

01-13-04   Bush admits he targeted Saddam from the start    President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he was mapping preparations to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as soon as he took office. Bush's comments came in response to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's contention in a new book that the chief executive was gunning for Saddam nine months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and two years before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

11-07-03   White House Puts Limits on Queries From Democrats    The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers.

07-15-03   Black Thursday For Bush    The headlines announced by John Roberts, substituting for Dan Rather on CBS, were: "President Bush's false claim about Iraqi weapons; he made it despite a CIA warning the intelligence was bad. More Americans say U.S. is losing control of Iraq. Also tonight, food lines in America; they're back and getting longer."

05-29-03   Never send a Bush to do a President's job    How good was the Clinton Presidency? History's pending verdict becomes clear when we ignore the hysterics and contrast Bill Clinton's success against two failed Bush presidencies. Bush I and Bush II - gloomy bookends before and after the eight great Clinton years.

01-29-03   Bush braces America for war   In State of Union address, president vows to give U.N. new evidence on Iraq; 'Crucial hours may lie ahead'; Bush says tax-cut plan would bring relief, put nation on path to growth

01-01-03    Attack by Iraq Would Hurt Economy  Bush is keeping an unwavering aim on Iraq while insisting North Korea 's nuclear ambitions can be held in check diplomatically and without resort to military force. Bush tersely replied: "An attack from Saddam Hussein or a surrogate of Saddam Hussein would cripple our economy

12-22-02    Veterans accuse Bush of breaking promise  The leaders of America's most prominent veterans organizations say that President Bush is failing to honor past commitments to military men and women even as he prepares to send a new generation of soldiers and sailors into combat.

11-10-02   After Iraq, Bush Will Attack His Real Target    Iraq is not the main objective for the Pentagon hardliners driving the Bush administration's national security policy. The real target of the coming war is Iran, which Israel views as its principal and most dangerous enemy. Iraq merely serves as a pretext to whip America into a war frenzy

10-30-02   President To Author: Your Book Is Unpatriotic   Hudson's new collection of short stories, "Dear Mr. President", has made him a favorite of book critics, fellow writers and lots of readers. But the book, it seems, has had the opposite effect on the commander in chief.

10-28-02   A Kid Brother Gets in Trouble   Florida Governor Jeb Bush is running hard. Brother George is helping

10-25-02   Bush Does Not Support Independence for Taiwan    Bush said on Friday the United States would use its influence to ensure China and Taiwan settle their differences peacefully and promised to make it clear to Taipei that Washington does not support independence.

10-22-02   For Bush, Facts Are Malleable    As Bush leads the nation toward a confrontation with Iraq and his party into battle in midterm elections, his rhetoric has taken some flights of fancy in recent weeks. Statements on subjects ranging from the economy to Iraq suggest that a president who won election underscoring Al Gore's knack for distortions and exaggerations has been guilty of a few himself.

10-15-02   Misleading the Nation to War   Bush made his winning case for a congressional war resolution against Iraq by playing up the nation's lingering fear from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. His argument for preemptive war boiled down to the old adage: "better safe than sorry," But what Bush and his aides have left out of their one-sided risk equation is the possibility that the administration’s actions may increase the danger to Americans, not reduce or eliminate it.

10-10-02   Matters of consequence    President Bush's remarks leave little doubt regarding the road down which he is preparing to take the world. "There is no time to wait for final proof that Saddam has developed a nuclear capability -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud," Bush said

10-07-02   President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat   (Pre-war speech)    Tonight I want to take a few minutes to discuss a grave threat to peace, and America's determination to lead the world in confronting that threat.

09-29-02   The Boy Emperor's head hurt.    He summoned the imperial war tutor to the oval throne. "I'm confused, Wise Rummy," he confessed. "Is the war pre-emptive, preventive or preventable? Is Saddam fissile or fissible? What in creation is counterproliferation? Everything's moving so fast. It's a puzzlement. Why are we mad at Saddam?"

09-19-02   Bush to Outline Doctrine of Striking Foes First   The strategy document will also state, for the first time, that the United States will never allow its military supremacy to be challenged the way it was during the cold war.

09-04-02   When Silence Isn't Golden   Blowing off Mandela is just the latest example of George W. Bush’s unwillingness – or inability – to engage the rest of the world in a discussion about his administration’s international agenda.

08-27-02   An alternative to Bush is demanding to be heard    For all his scripted dumbness, George Bush is the voice of America. He manages to be loud and anxious at the same time. When he speaks his own words they often sound evasive and uncomprehending. But his is the only voice there seems to be. He is, after all, the president.

08-21-02   Bush will not attend earth summit in Johannesburg    Blair's support for the US after September 11 was not enough to influence him on green issues. There is a Fortune 500 list of companies willing to pay for him not to go.Mr Blair's hopes of putting third world development high on the international agenda as a positive counterweight to the "war on terror" has also been rendered empty rhetoric

01-11-02    Thumbs Up on Bush    Americans remain solidly supportive of President Bush on the war on terrorism and as the new year begins, many have an increasingly optimistic outlook on the country's economy.

01-10-02   A Creeping Collapse in Credibility at the White House   From ENRON Entanglements to UNOCAL Bringing the Taliban to Texas and Controlling Afghanistan

12-27-01   A diary of year one with our unelected president    Can it really be a year since we didn’t elect George W. Bush president?Time sure flies when you’re going straight to hell.

12-13-01   Text of Bush statement on ABM treaty    Announcing the withdrawal by the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia

09-18-01   Bin Laden is wanted: dead or alive, says Bush    President Bush said yesterday that he wanted Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile, "dead or alive" in some of the most bellicose language used by a White House occupant in recent years. There's an old poster out West that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.' " A woman in a civilian dress began singing God Bless America. Before long, Mr Bush and everyone else there had joined in.

09-17-01   Support surges as Bush becomes the President the people have yearned for    Casting aside his initial uncertainty in the aftermath of Tuesday's devastation, George W Bush has become the kind of president Americans had yearned for - rallying the country and articulating the grim determination of a people embarking on a new war. Mr Bush is now facing the most difficult aspect of the job that he won narrowly last November and for which his previous experience did little to prepare him - commander-in-chief.

08-06-01  Poll finds most are put off by Bush vacation  McClellan said Bush believes it is important to "get outside of Washington, D.C...."

11-02-2000   Bush acknowledges 1976 DUI charge    Texas Gov. George W. Bush acknowledged Thursday that in 1976 he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol near his parents' home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush, who was 30 at the time, pleaded guilty, paid a $150 fine and his driving privileges were temporarily suspended in Maine.

07-13-2000   Bush advisers tell Israelis to walk out of Camp David -  The Middle East peace talks became the subject of a political scandal in the US. One of George W Bush's foreign policy advisers warned the Israeli delegation to be prepared to walk out of negotiations. Richard Perle, urged the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, not to agree to any settlement which left the future status of Jerusalem unresolved

05-21-2000   A Philosophy With Roots In Conservative Texas Soil    Many of the roots of Mr. Bush's political philosophy as a presidential candidate -- including his belief in tough love for juvenile offenders -- seem to go back to his childhood. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. ''Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them, or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.''

02-22-2000   Evangelist Goes on the Attack to Help Bush   While George W. Bush tried today to rally Michigan voters for Tuesday's primary here with a sunny message of tax cutting and political reform, a second, shadow campaign by his allies sought to sow suspicions of Senator John McCain.