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	George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bush took a hard line on capital punishment and received much criticism from advocates who wanted to abolish the death penalty and also those who argued that there were tangible imperfections in the Texas legal system that required a more cautious approach to carrying out the death penalty.
		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.
		Bush is the first Republican president to have appointed an openly gay man to serve in his administration [36] (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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_W._Bush (7771 words)

	Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11 (washingtonpost.com)
		But Bush was so concerned that the government of his closest ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, might fall because of his support for Bush that he delayed the war's start until March 19 here (March 20 in Iraq) because Blair asked him to seek a second resolution from the United Nations.
		Bush's critics have questioned whether he and his administration were focused on Iraq rather than terrorism when they took office early in 2001 and even after the Sept. 11 attacks.
		Bush agreed, and later referred to the Camp David session with Blair as "the cojones meeting," using a colloquial Spanish term for courage.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16.html (2432 words)

	Chron.com \| 'Bush At War' by Bob Woodward
		He amply demonstrates this once again in Bush at War, a riveting and compelling account of the thinking, the tension, the tortured debate that consumed the Bush administration as it formulated its military response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
		Unlike Bush's critics, who see the president as a neophyte lightweight parroting the views of his seasoned advisers, Woodward portrays Bush as a commander in chief, truly in command.
		Bush was also almost obsessively preoccupied with the "humanitarian" component of bombing a country like Afghanistan, which was already in extremis after decades of devastating wars.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/reviews/1679930 (1313 words)

	frontline: the war behind closed doors: chronology - the evolution of the bush doctrine \| PBS
		A war with Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein would be the first test case in the Bush administration's larger strategy for projecting U.S. power and influence in the post-Cold War world.
		Bush's State of the Union address introduces the idea of an "axis of evil" that includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, and signals the U.S. will act preemptively to deal with such nations.
		In the United Nations speech, Bush seems to be siding with Powell in calling for a new U.N. resolution on Iraq.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/cron.html (2216 words)

	village voice > news > Bush's Other War by Tom Robbins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bush didn't get his three-member majority until last December, when he placed a conservative Washington, D.C., attorney named Ronald Meisburg on the panel.
		In June, by a 3-2 vote along party lines, the Bush board overturned a 30-year-old rule that provided one of the few protections afforded employees in a non-union workplace: the right to have a co-worker accompany them when summoned to the boss's office for a disciplinary interrogation.
		In June, the new Bush majority rejected those remedies, stating that a simple posting of the board's cease-and-desist order was sufficient.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0442/robbins.php (1428 words)

	White House whitewash
		Bush at War is tightly focused on meetings between administration heavies--Bush, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA Director George Tenet--and their underlings.
		Bush and the hawks running his foreign policy viewed the September 11 attacks as an opportunity to fulfill their wildest dreams of expanding U.S. power around the world.
		If Bush’s bluster in his final interview with Woodward--conducted last August as the administration was ramping up its anti-Iraq rhetoric--is any tip-off, the war in Iraq is the first of many more to come.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-2/433/433_11_Woodward.shtml (1183 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bush at War: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bush at War focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the US prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defence and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism around the world.
		Bush himself seems to govern by vibes - he doesn't direct his colleagues as his father and Clinton did and from time to time 'mum' Rice has to point out to him that he needs to take corrective action as the ship of state is in danger of veering off course.
		This is not to say however that Bush doesn't have a clear sense of direction, its just that his skills at turning that into practice are not that finely honed, perhaps partly because the sense of direction itself derives from some kind of philosophical (neocon?) vision which is a bit mystical in my opinion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/074346107X (1628 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Bush's other war
		In Baghdad, the Bush administration acts as though it is astonished by the postwar carnage.
		In advance of the war, Bush (to be precise, Dick Cheney, the de facto prime minister to the distant monarch) viewed the CIA, the state department and other intelligence agencies not simply as uncooperative, but even disloyal, as their analysts continued to sift through information to determine what exactly might be true.
		Twice, in the run-up to the war, Vice-president Cheney veered his motorcade to the George HW Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, where he personally tried to coerce CIA desk-level analysts to fit their work to specification.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1075530,00.html (964 words)

	Calpundit: Bush at War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It's war, and if George Bush considered it to be truly serious he would have done everything he could to build a bipartisan consensus and wide public support for his actions.
		The problem is "this war" has nothing to do with the problem of islamic fundamentalist terrorism, and hasn't since we began pulling resources away from the struggle against al qaeda in order to enter into this protracted, highly problematic excursion to rebuild iraq as an example for the middle east (or something along those lines).
		Bush is seriously having a war, a holy war which he is aiming not only at Muslims, but at Democrats, and liberals, and basically anyone who disagrees with him on anything.
	www.calpundit.com /archives/003126.html (8797 words)

	Transcript for Feb. 8th - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
		President Bush: Well, I appreciate his optimism. I have no idea whether we will capture or bring him to justice, may be the best way to put it. I know we are on the hunt, and Osama bin Laden is a cold-blooded killer, and he represents the nature of the enemy that we face.
		President Bush: Well, because he had the capacity to have a weapon, make a weapon. We thought he had weapons. The international community thought he had weapons. But he had the capacity to make a weapon and then let that weapon fall into the hands of a shadowy terrorist network.
		President Bush: Well, because I believe that the best way to stimulate economic growth is to let people keep more of their own money. And I believe that if you raise taxes as the economy is beginning to recover from really tough times, you’ll slow down economic growth. You’ll make it harder.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4179618 (4294 words)

	Scoop: Exposing Bush and His "Techniques of Deceit"
		Although Bush presents himself to the world as a plain-spoken, straight-shooting friend of the common man, he regularly employs a variety of techniques to deceive the very people most inclined to trust him.
		Bush’s assertion, based on absolutely no evidence, that Saddam hopes to deploy al Qaeda as his “forward army” against the West: “We need to think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty work, to not leave fingerprints behind,” he told a Republican audience in Michigan prior to the congressional elections.
		I say the wiser course is to stop the war train in its tracks and intensify inspections, which will give the American people the breathing space to decide what exactly we should do with a leader who has sunk this low.
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/HL0302/S00061.htm (3979 words)

	George W. Bush on the Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		O'Neill: Bush is an ideologue, not a centrist.
		War on Terror is not about intelligence and law enforcement.
		Bush is confident that none of 112 executed were innocent:
	www.issues2000.org /George_W__Bush.htm (5550 words)

	Bush's "dirty war" \| thebulletin.org
		For less senior Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan, the administration created a visible regime of indefinite detention at the leased U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and asserted that this domain was beyond the reach of both international humanitarian law and the U.S. Constitution.
		These reportedly included such techniques as prolonged isolation in bare dark cells, being kept naked, exposure to extreme heat and cold, prolonged hooding, sleep denial, stress positions, continuous loud music, sexual humiliation, diet manipulation (bread and water), the withholding of medications, and the manipulation of phobias, such as fear of dogs.
		The first was a prolonged internal debate, from October 2002 to April 2003, regarding the permissible range of "counter-resistance techniques" for interrogation of mid-level detainees held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=nd04paine (1530 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| The real reasons Bush went to war
		By invading Iraq, Bush has taken over the Iraqi oil fields, and persuaded the UN to lift production limits imposed after the Kuwait war.
		In early 2002 Bush placed Iran and Iraq in the axis of evil.
		Oil and the dollar were the real reasons for the attack on Iraq, with WMD as the public reason now exposed as woefully inadequate.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1270414,00.html (1091 words)

	Daniel Bacher: Bush's Illegal War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bush and Blair tried to justify the intervention on the presence of so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and by drawing an implicit connection of the Hussein regime to Al Quaeda.
		Bush - rather than advocate for "preemptive war" against an immediate threat - developed a doctrine of "preventive war" for a country supposedly considered a long term term threat.
		Another justification for the war by Bush and Blair was the previous authorization of force by the U.N to go to war over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
	www.counterpunch.org /bacher05302003.html (1482 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The tribunal participants spent two years examining Bush's role as the top commander in the war, making eight field trips to Afghanistan and holding nearly 20 public hearings.
		"Bush said that military presence in Afghanistan is self-defense," said Robert Akroyd, a British lawyer who served as one of the five judges.
		Bush failed to do so with the U.S. military's use of "indiscriminate weapons such as the Daisy Cutter (a huge conventional bomb), cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells," he said.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040314a5.htm (359 words)

	AWOLBush.com - Home Page
		Bush allies in Congress stopped efforts to scale back the tax cut for the nation's millionaires by just five percent - a loss of just $4,780 for the year - in order to restore this funding for military family housing.
		He mentioned that Bush appeared to have a drinking problem, she recalls, but he was most offended by another incapacity: his fear of flying.
		Bush is praying for the murk of "memogate" to persist indefinitely, like smog over LA in a thermal inversion.
	www.awolbush.com (10042 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Bush vetoes Syria war plan
		However, President George Bush, who faces re-election next year with two perilous nation-building projects, in Afghanistan and Iraq, on his hands, is said to have cut off discussion among his advisers about the possibility of taking the "war on terror" to Syria.
		The Bush administration is nevertheless determined to use its military ascendancy in the region to exert diplomatic and economic pressure on Damascus and resolve what Washington sees as longstanding problems, including the threat to Israel posed by Damascus-backed Islamic extremists, Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Syria's chemical weapons.
		The prime minister's upbeat report to MPs on what, for the first time, he called victory was marred by sceptical challenges from both sides based on reports from Washington that Bush hawks want to move on the Ba'athist regime next door.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,937105,00.html (1018 words)

	City Pages - Bring 'em On! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She told the London Guardian that Bush and Blair made a secret pact a few months afterward, in the summer of 2002, to invade Iraq in either February or March of this year.
		The Bush administration's foreign policy plan was not based on September 11, or terrorism; those events only brought to the forefront a radical plan for U.S. control of the post-Cold War world that had been taking shape since the closing days of the first Bush presidency.
		And though they all flocked around the Bush administration from the start, W never really embraced their plan until the events of September 11 left him casting around for a foreign policy plan.
	www.citypages.com /databank/24/1182/article11417.asp (7257 words)

	Simonsays.com > SimonSays > Bush at War (Hardcover) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war.
		Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council -- and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet -- make Bush at War an unprecedented chronicle of a modern presidency in time of grave crisis.
		Bush at War includes a vivid portrait of CIA director George Tenet, ready and eager for covert action against terrorists in Afghanistan and worldwide.
	www.simonsays.com /content/content.cfm?isbn=0743204735&sid=33 (332 words)

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