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Archives: Bush
Did David Brooks & the NeoCons pave the Way for Trump?
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Apart from being a police officer, firefighter, or soldier engaged in one of this nation’s endless wars, writing a column for…
Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's shameful halt to the admission of refugees for 6 months and his 3-month pause in allowing entry to the US from seven…
Top 4 Ways Bush even more Outrageously Dissed the Intelligence Community
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency counter-terrorist center and FBI National Security Branch, has been on CNN maintaining that…
Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories
By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…
The other Casualty of Iraq War: The Country’s Whole Health System
Ahmed Aber | (The Conversation) | - - Thirteen years ago, American and British troops launched Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Iraqis were promised freedom from tyranny, but the subsequent destruction of the…
Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Intro: Rebecca Gordon catches the nightmarish quality of those [Bush] years, now largely buried, in the grim case of a single mistreated human…
The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal
By Charles Davis | ( TeleSur | - - The U.S. is at war with the same extremist group it claimed to have defeated five years ago, and it’s relying on sectarian…
One Reason the GOP Bigwigs hate Trump: He told the truth about Bush WMD Lies
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - Recently Donald Trump broke with Republican convention and roiled the party base by boldly stating “You call it whatever you want. I…
How Bush-Cheneyism made Mideast in its Image: Wars, WOT, With us or Against Us
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thirteen years after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, it is worth considering its full impact on this country and on the region.…
Bush Sr. Blames Neocons for Ruining W.’s Presidency: Is he Warning Jeb?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In interviews given for a new biography, George H. W. Bush, 91 lets loose against Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, whom he clearly…
With Ahmad Chalabi’s Death, Passing of an Age of Lies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Ahmad Chalabi (1944-2015) died of a heart attack in Iraq on Tuesday. Clarence Darrow, the great trial lawyer and orator, said, "I’ve never…
Yes, George W. Bush bears some Responsibility for US Vulnerability on 9/11
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Donald Trump-Jeb Bush tiff over whether George W. Bush "kept us safe" is another example of how Donald Trump is better than…
How Bush/Cheney’s War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade
By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | - - OXFORD (IPS) - When negotiations between Iran and the European “Troika” broke down, the reformist government of Mohammad Khatami was discredited in…
Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq
By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | - - There are so many lies in Dick Cheney's address to the AEI that one hardly knows where to begin in refuting them. He…
Memo to Jeb Bush: It was W’s Surge that created ISIL, not Hillary
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Jeb Bush very unwisely went after Hillary Clinton last night on the grounds that her Iraq policies gave us Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Bush…
Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Well we had the primetime GOP debate, so the 2016 election season has formally begun. Trump declared himself more or less an independent.…
Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump
By Juan Cole - (Informed Comment) - It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about was his occasional cynicism. "Obama scolded him…
The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis “Jeb” Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Jeb Bush announced his run for president on Monday. It is hard to know what his Middle East policy would be from his…