At noon on January 20, George W. Bush hands successor Barack Obama two unfinished wars and a worldwide economic meltdown and leaves historians the job of judging his tumultuous eight-year presidency. George Walker Bush: the man the whole world has come to love to hate. Rarely has an American pre...
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Thomas O. Melia, “The Bush Administration, I think, in its arrogance, and its confidence that they were always doing things the correct way, they again unnecessarily alienated our friends in the world who don’t expect us to be perfect; they expect us to be always trying to be better. His poor ha...
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George Walker Bush: the man the whole world has come to love to hate. Rarely has an American president been so unpopular. But how well do we really know this man who despite holding degrees from Harvard and Yale, managed to come off to the world as an average Texan? George W. Bush hands successo...
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Niloufer Bhagwat of India, Vice President of the Mumbai based Indian Lawyers Association testified at the 16th and final session of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2005. She described the economic interests behind the U.S. war on Iraq and the complicity of corporations and ...
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It is an image, however, that would come to play against him. The war on terror that followed September 11th has largely defined both Bush’s terms in office, and his refusal to compromise on Iraq greatly discredited the US in the eyes of its allies. Stephen Hess, “Clearly he is not a bit of a si...
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