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Bush administration's Iraq policy
"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
Rudyard Kipling, Epitaphs of the War
"What Korea was to Truman, and Vietnam was to LBJ, Iraq will be to George W. Bush."
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
John Adams
"I don't feel abandoned," Mr Bush said on Fox News. "And what do you expect? When times are good, there\'s millions of authors of the plan. When times are bad, there\'s one author, and that would be me."
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 An injured man walks out from a hospital after receiving treatment in Baghdad, January 25, 2007
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Washington Examiner
April 18, 2018
(Many in the CIA and State Department were hostile to Bush's Iraq policy and leaked steadily against it.) Immediately, antiwar voices cried foul, blaming the Bush administration for outing a secret agent as payback for her (and her husband's) dovishness. A special prosecutor was commissioned andÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 18, 2018
Although this kind of blackmail has been SOP in all American administrations, the Bush Administration has carried the threat and practice to previously ..... No wonder that major European states are opposed to Bush's Iraq policy, which is supported only by the UK, which is a North Sea oil producer itself.
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 8, 2017
“I have known Andrew for years,” said Elliot Abrams, a prominent Republican foreign policy hawk and former senior official in the George W. Bush administration. “I view him as one of the group of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who bring to government jobs both invaluable real-world experience, andÃâà...
War Is Boring
December 4, 2017
By the end of its revisionary transition under the Bush administration, it was to have been bigger than the largest attack on Iraq during the inter-war years, ... Though regime change was a publicized goal and President Bush pursued a more aggressive Iraq policy prior to 9/11, the revision of Desert BadgerÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
November 19, 2017
He had never been confronted with an issue like 9/11.” Forty-three surmised that his father didn't openly question his Iraq policy because his “disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences” ultimatum made clear his intention. “A lesson he taught me was, if you say something, you'd better mean it,” said theÃâà...
Vox
September 5, 2017
But the Bush administration had no interest in listening to its left-wing critics, and surged troops into Iraq. When Obama was elected in 2008, the left ... It seemed that left-wing interest in world affairs had been driven principally by opposition to Bush's Iraq policy. With Obama, who had promised to end theÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
August 2, 2017
The work of that study group contributed to the Bush administration's dramatic change in Iraq policy in early 2007. In that same year, USIP partnered with the U.S. Army in Mahmoudyia, a zone south of Baghdad then called the “Triangle of Death” that I knew only too well from my first tour in that country.
Kurdistan24
May 12, 2017
Kurdish competence caused complications in Iraq, because of the “one-Iraq” policy to which the US and other powers adhered. “The international ... She said Hussein had been a threat to the region and the Bush administration believed he had rebuilt his proscribed weapons of mass destruction. That was the basic reasonÃâà...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
Mr. Blair said that he had helped urge the Bush administration go through the United Nations, over the resistance of powerful figures like Vice .... He was the first senior leader to resign over Britain's Iraq policy, and asked pointedly in his speech to Parliament: “Why is it now so urgent that we should takeÃâà...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
Mr. Blair said that he had helped urge the Bush administration go through the United Nations, over the resistance of powerful figures like Vice .... He was the first senior leader to resign over Britain's Iraq policy, and asked pointedly in his speech to Parliament: “Why is it now so urgent that we should takeÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
May 6, 2016
Omitting the decade leading up to the 2003 invasion distorts the roots of the war, which wasn't just a product of post–9/11 hysteria or the creation of various Bush administration personalities. The February 2001 assault was part of a bipartisan policy that put continuous war with Iraq at the center of strategiesÃâà...
Huffington Post
November 30, 2015
Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who came up through intelligence positions in Iraq and Afghanistan, says that the George W. Bush administration's Iraq war was a tremendous blunder that helped to create the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS.
The Atlantic
June 24, 2014
But sooner or later, honest liberals will have to admit that Obama's Iraq policy has been a disaster. Since the president took office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri ... The Bush administration's troop “surge” did not solve the country's underlying divisions. But by retaking Sunni areas from insurgents, it gave Iraq'sÃâà...
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