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  political nonsense » the bush administration
The Bush administration is trying to diffuse a public relations fiasco over news U.S. diplomats are refusing mandatory job assignments in Iraq.
The Bush administration increased more than fivefold Tuesday the number of Near East and South Asian refugees the U.S. can admit as it seeks to accept 12,000 Iraqi refugees during the next 12 months.
Bush vetoed the child healthcare bill and 51% of Americans said they would be willing to pay higher taxes so that all children could have health insurance,with those with lower household incomes showing the most support.
blog.politicalnonsense.com /category/the-president/the-bush-administration   (800 words)

  
  George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bush was elected 46th Governor of Texas in 1994, defeating Ann Richards, and was re-elected in 1998.
Bush is the first Republican President to have appointed an openly gay man to serve in his administration [51] (Scott Evertz as director of the Office of National AIDS Policy), and the first President to see one such appointment, that of openly gay Ambassador to Romania Michael E. Guest, receive Congressional confirmation.
Bush's imposition of a tariff on imported steel and on Canadian softwood lumber was controversial in light of his advocacy of free market policies in other areas, and attracted criticism both from his fellow conservatives and from nations affected.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_W._Bush   (7928 words)

  
 1st Bush Administration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bush père is a moderate Republican, an upper-class Episcopalian, a gentleman, a World War II veteran with a distinguished record, a former US Ambassador to China, a former Director of the CIA and a former Vice-President as well as a former President.
Bush possesses the characteristics of the `dry drunk' in terms of his incoherence while speaking away from the script; his irritability with anyone (for example, Germany's Gerhard Schroeder) who dares disagree with him; and his dangerous obsessing about only one thing (Iraq).
The isolationist and unilateralist approach of the Bush Administration to the Middle East, the dreadful rhetoric, the continued hectoring of people who expected to be treated as allies, the thinly disguised contempt for Europe of the Neoconservatives in the Administration, all these factors really got on the nerves of the Europeans.
www.eurolegal.org /useur/uspubpol.htm   (10469 words)

  
 Bush Administration (Harpers.org)
Bush Administration officials were said to be disturbed that Caribbean countries have refused to recognize the U.S.-backed government in Haiti.
A former FBI translator claimed that she could prove that the Bush Administration did in fact receive warnings in the spring and summer of 2001 that terrorists were planning to use aircraft to attack American cities.
Administration lawyers asked a judge to prevent a former FBI translator from testifying in a lawsuit brought by families of September 11 victims; the translator told the 9/11 commission that the government had considerable evidence months before the attacks that Al Qaeda was planning to use aircraft as weapons in the United States.
www.harpers.org /BushAdministration.html   (2303 words)

  
 Bush administration - SourceWatch
The first was the George Herbert Walker Bush administration (1989-1992) which succeeded the Ronald Reagan administration (1981-1988).
James "Jim" Nicholson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the second Bush administration (U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and former Republican National Committee chair); resigned July 17, 2007, effective October 1, 2007.
Vasquez, Gaddi H.: Gaddi H. Vasquez, Director of the United States Peace Corps in Bush's first administration; nominated to be United States Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture with the rank of Ambassador in the second Bush administration.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Bush_administration   (2114 words)

  
 Bush Watch
Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged, Rehersed, ABC/AP It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution.
President Bush's campaign mantra in the 2000 election was that he and the Republican Party would "restore honor and integrity to the White House." Five and one half years later, it's utterly mind-boggling the amount of lies, controversies and scandals that have been perpetrated by Bush and his closest aides.
Bush and his top officials signed off on very specific torture parameters, including physical assault and psychological torment; even beating a captive to death was countenanced, as long the killer proclaimed that he had no murder in his heart when he commenced to whupping, The New York Review of Books reports.
www.bushwatch.com   (9650 words)

  
 Presidential Profile: George W. Bush's Cabinet
George W. Bush's first administration was notable for including a number of veterans of previous Republican administrations, including Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
But if Bush's early cabinet members and advisors had considerable government experience, they, like others before them, could also boast of extensive corporate connections.
Bush, the first president with an MBA degree, appears to be following a similar course in choosing the cabinet for his second term.
www.opensecrets.org /bush/cabinet.asp   (353 words)

  
 Misleader.org
On the campaign trail, Bush has repeatedly presented himself as the candidate who will unquestioningly provide American troops with the resources they need.
But there is mounting evidence that Bush sent troops to war without essential equipment.
Bush at RNC Victory 2004 Rally," The White House, 11/02/04.
www.misleader.org   (179 words)

  
 Bush administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George W. Bush administration is the administration of the 43rd president of the United States of America, 2001-present
George H. Bush administration is the administration of the 41st president of the United States of America, 1989-1993
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bush_Administration   (101 words)

  
 BushGreenwatch - tracking environmental misdeeds   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 60-year-old Miers has been a staunch Bush loyalist since the president's days as governor of Texas when she was his personal lawyer and counsel to his successful 1994 gubernatorial campaign.
Because Miers has been a trusted member of Bush's inner circle since the early 90s', one must assume she was giving him a fair amount of advice during his time as governor.
But she was at Bush's side while Texas air quality was taking a hit, certainly a relationship that needs to be explored by senators who must vote on her confirmation and are unsure of what her judicial values would be.
www.bushgreenwatch.org   (835 words)

  
 Bush Secrecy Introduction
The reason: this is the first time in recent memory that private citizens (rather than U.S. government employees) have been charged with “delivery and transmission” of classified information – a “crime” that journalists commit all the time as part of their reporting.
Bush administration officials said the White House will release some government documents produced by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts but will not make public the work Roberts did for the administration of President George H.W. Bush, when he was principal deputy solicitor general from 1989 to 1993.
According to The New York Times, the Bush administration decided to waive any claim of attorney-client privilege because those papers are covered by the Presidential Records Act, which favors disclosure of documents covered by the act.
www.bushsecrecy.org   (1225 words)

  
 “Free-Speech Zone”
The Bush administration sought to block all access to the documents, but Marchant ruled that the lawyers could have limited access.
The Bush administration’s anti-protester bias proved embarrassing for two American allies with long traditions of raucous free speech, resulting in some of the most repressive restrictions in memory in free countries.
For Bush’s recent visit to London, the White House demanded that British police ban all protest marches, close down the center of the city, and impose a “virtual three day shutdown of central London in a bid to foil disruption of the visit by anti-war protesters,” according to Britain’s Evening Standard.
www.amconmag.com /12_15_03/feature.html   (1822 words)

  
 C-SPAN: BUSH ADMINISTRATION
Bush is in Washington today but has no public schedule.
Bush conducts a video teleconference with members of the U.S. Army's 42nd Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, to discuss preparations for Iraq's constitutional referendum.
President Bush and the first lady visit the Gulf Coast region on the president's eighth trip to the area since Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005.
www.c-span.org /homepage.asp?Cat=Current_Event&Code=Bush_Admin&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=BA&Rot_HT=&Rot_WD=   (195 words)

  
 Bush Administration in Transition - US Department of State
President George W. Bush attends the swearing in of Steve Johnson as the EPA Administrator May 23, 2005.
President Bush says his environmental policies are “protecting the environment while also promoting growth” and he and his administration will continue to fulfill their responsibilities to be “good stewards of the Earth.”
President Bush nominated John R. Bolton, currently the under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, to represent the United States at the United Nations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced March 7.
usinfo.state.gov /special/transition.html   (354 words)

  
 Bush Administration Lies
Such positions support the Bush administration's view that the insurgency is linked to the war on terror.
Bush is right in arguing that Saddam Hussein poses an unacceptable threat, and right in choosing to confront that menace.
A key piece of evidence in the Bush administration's case against Iraq is being challenged in a report by independent experts who question whether thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes recently sought by Iraq were intended for a secret nuclear weapons program.
www.iraqwar.org /adminlies.htm   (3733 words)

  
 George W. Bush, Jr. - The Dark Side
Bush denied any involvement, fooling no one, but after McCain's decisive New Hampshire victory made the move look ridiculous, Bush and his top strategist Karl Rove called up his establishment minions, after which they instantly announced that they were stopping their efforts to keep McCain off the ballot.
Bush's administration has consistenly shoveled large amounts of state controlled money to men who have either contributed large amounts to Bush's campaign, or who have made Junior personally rich through sweet insider business deals, or both.
Bush also has refused to answer whether he could have passed the FBI test when his father was vice president, during the 8 years from 1981-1989.
www.realchange.org /bushjr.htm   (15856 words)

  
 Bush Administration - washingtonpost.com
A divided Senate narrowly confirmed former federal judge Michael B. Mukasey last night as the 81st attorney general, giving the nominee the lowest level of congressional support of any Justice Department leader in the past half-century.
President Bush delivers his fourth State of the Union speech since the war in Iraq began, addressing a Congress that is controlled by Democrats.
Bush Urges Congress to OK Veterans Bill (By DEB RIECHMANN, Nov. 10, 2007 11:22 a.m.)
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/politics/administration/index.html   (365 words)

  
 Welcome to the White House
President Bush on Thursday said, "...I want to thank you for providing the security necessary for people to exercise their free will.
President Bush on Wednesday said, "Aleksander has helped advance the cause of peace by advancing the cause of freedom.
President George W. Bush gestures as he speaks with troops, from the U.S. Army's 42nd Infantry Division serving in Iraq, via video teleconference from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005.
www.whitehouse.gov   (381 words)

  
 Bush Administration
After eight years of George W. Bush, we need to elect a president who can set the nation in a new direction.
The Bush Administration says the staff members could have a conversation with the committee, but not under oath.
"As you may also know, Democrats in Congress have launched investigations into other Bush Administration actions including: the leak of the name of a CIA operative to the press; unauthorized wiretapping of U.S. citizens; substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center; as well as the firing of U.S. attorneys.
www.pollingreport.com /bush.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Neo-Conservatives and the Bush Administration / IPS Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON - In the harshest speech against Iran given by a top George W. Bush administration official to date, Vice President Dick Cheney Sunday warned the Islamic Republic of "serious consequences" if it did not freeze its nuclear programme and accused it of "direct involvement in the killings of Americans".
WASHINGTON - The George W. Bush administration is badly losing the so-called "war of ideas" in the Middle East, a group of foreign policy experts suggested here Wednesday, by failing to grasp that persuasion is just as important as the more heavy-handed tactics of its "war on terror".
Our correspondents have tracked their networks and remarkable success in gaining influence over Bush's foreign policy, as well as the scandals that have rocked their ranks, particularly during the president's second term.
ipsnews.net /new_focus/neo-cons   (696 words)

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