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SOURCE: Informed Comment
1-5-17
Top 4 Ways Bush even more Outrageously Dissed the Intelligence Community
by Juan Cole
The difference between Trump and Bush is only a matter of rhetorical style, and Trump hasn’t had the opportunity yet to endanger America the way Bush and the Neoconservatives did.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1-21-16
Who Really Lost Iraq?
by Dominic Tierney
Obama didn’t turn victory into defeat. There was no victory.
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SOURCE: TPM
12-23-15
Bush: Problem With Confederate Flag Is 'What It Began To Represent Later'
"The problem with the Confederate flag isn't the Confederacy, the problem with the Confederate flag is what it began to represent later," Bush said while on a campaign stop.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11-12-15
How the Bushes Misunderstood Cheney
by Nicholas Lemann
They didn't understand that Cheney had his own agenda.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-4-15
Bush #41: His son is responsible for Rumsfeld and Cheney errors
The stunning revelation is in Jon Meacham’s new biography of the senior Bush.
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SOURCE: CNN
10-31-15
So, who really won in 2000?
What the Bush v. Gore studies showed
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SOURCE: Financial Times
9-1-15
Clinton and Bush test America’s appetite for dynasties
by Rick Perlstein
US dynasties are not just political — parents pass half their wealth to their kids
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SOURCE: Politico
6-3-15
George W. Bush outpolls Barack Obama
It is the first time in more than a decade that Americans have expressed a favorable view of Bush.
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SOURCE: WSJ
3-24-15
Hofstra Event Looks at Bush Presidency
Conference panelists present different pictures of the 43rd president and his policies
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SOURCE: WSJ
2-8-15
The Dangerous Lie That ‘Bush Lied’
by Laurence H. Silberman
The charge is dangerous because it can take on the air of historical fact—with potentially dire consequences.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
2-6-15
Brian Williams Affair: Reagan and Bush Lied about Military Records but They Get a Pass
by Juan Cole
Many of Williams’s fiercest critics are conservatives, for whom network television news is a liberal conspiracy, but the same conservatives go on idolizing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, both of whom much more egregiously made stuff up about their military service than Williams.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
12-1-14
Bush Admin. Spent Billions on an Iraqi Army with 50,000 “ghost” Soldiers
by Juan Cole
Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi announced to his parliament on Sunday that inspectors had uncovered 50,000 non-existent soldiers in four divisions of the Iraqi Army. Their pay was presumably being diverted to the officers in the division.
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SOURCE: Media Matters
10-16-14
Fox is distorting the history of the Bush administration’s WMD claims
The hosts of Fox News' The Five distorted the history behind the rationale for the U.S. war in Iraq by reshaping an investigative report by the New York Times.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
7-31-14
Ex-President George W. Bush Authors Book About His Father
The younger Bush, 68, also writes about his father’s influence on his own life, including his decision to enter politics.
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SOURCE: YouGov
7-15-14
Clinton seen as the most intelligent president, George W. Bush the least
Americans are especially likely to think of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as "very" smart.
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SOURCE: NY Review of Books
4-3-14
Bush: "Why Didn't I Know This?"
by Mark Danner
"What did the third member of the triumvirate, Vice President Cheney—who had known about the conflict for weeks—say at this moment?"
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SOURCE: Google
4-7-14
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