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Wake Forest Review
April 4, 2018
A Yale Law graduate, he served in various capacities during the Bush administration, and was one of the chief architects of regime-change in Iraq. The incoming National Security Advisor also knows his way around a bureaucracy, and is familiar with how to get his ideas heard. An added point of interest isÃâà...
Mintpress News
April 3, 2018
Bolton continued to block government probes by refusing to cooperate with document release requests and invoking executive privilege. He later referred to efforts to destroy information allegedly pertaining to the Contra affair as “house cleaning” chores so the George H.W. Bush administration could comeÃâà...
Palm Beach Post
April 3, 2018
It's even more unsettling covering two Republican presidents who fit this description: George W. Bush and Donald Trump. I watched in alarm ... He pushed to go to war in Iraq and still thinks it was a good idea, just as he has pushed to go to war in North Korea and get regime change in Iran and Syria. He is aÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 30, 2018
... Bolton advocated that it be followed by similar regime-change wars against Syria and Iran, as well as North Korea. Bolton worked closely with Israeli intelligence to fabricate a falsified “weapons-of-mass-destruction” justification for an assault on Iran after the occupation of Iraq, which top Bush officials hadÃâà...
The Intercept
March 30, 2018
It's difficult, after all, to avoid the label — that of a bully — when thinking of John Bolton, the former Bush administration official-turned-Fox News pundit who ... to allow OPCW weapons inspectors to make unannounced visits to that country — thereby undermining Washington's rationale for regime change.
Mintpress News
March 29, 2018
As journalist Gareth Porter recently noted, from 2002 to 2004, while he was the Bush administration's key policymaker on Iran, Bolton — by flouting State Department protocol and taking several unannounced trips to Israel — “actively conspired […] to establish the political conditions necessary for theÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 29, 2018
Donald Trump's Appointment of John Bolton Means “Regime Change is Coming to Iran”? ... The men included Bush's Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House liaison toÃâà...
Iranian
March 29, 2018
Last Thursday Donald Trump announced that John Bolton, a former official in George W. Bush's administration and former ambassador to the UN, would be his new National Security Advisor. Bolton is a warhawk who called for the invasion of Iraq in search of non-existent weapons of mass destruction andÃâà...
CNN
March 23, 2018
Back then, while working in the Bush administration, Bolton made the case at home and abroad that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and that the US role in the aftermath of regime change in Iraq would be "fairly minimal." Trump, by the way, has pointed to his own opposition to theÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 23, 2018
... was pursuing a separate uranium enrichment program with the help of Pakistan, a key decision had to be made: re-engage in diplomacy to expand the agreement to prohibit uranium enrichment or tear it up, isolate a member of the “Axis of Evil,” and push for regime change. Bush, guided in part by Bolton,Ãâà...
The Federalist
March 22, 2018
He condemned the Iraq War and regime change attempts in the Middle East, arguing that we helped destabilize the region through our military actions. To Americans tired of military campaigns to social engineer governments in distant lands, the ire Trump raised within the political elites seemed like a signÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
March 16, 2018
During the Bush administration, there was an alliance between the neocons, who espoused the promotion of democracy by regime change, and outright nationalists such as Cheney and Bolton, who had zero interest in democracy promotion and simply wanted to pulverize any upstart nations that mightÃâà...
Daily Trust
March 3, 2018
But the scholar pushed back the roots of the invasion plans to the US's Bush Administration, quoting Jeremy Keenan in his book “Dark Sahara and Dying ... Parliamentary Committee report that accused the British government, and by extension NATO, of pursuing “an opportunistic policy of regime change,”Ãâà...
Cuba Standard.com
March 3, 2018
Vicki Huddleston, a career diplomat who was head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, just published a book about her .... Once again — as during George W. Bush's administration — conservative Cuban American legislators will attempt to force regime change byÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 2, 2018
That doesn't necessitate regime change, does it? Such rhetoric raises tensions and threatens to stoke nationalist ... Real men want to go to Tehran,” a British official close to the President Bush team told Newsweek in the lead up to the Iraq War. Who could rationally blame Iran's leaders for fearing they wereÃâà...
The National Interest Online
February 21, 2018
But then came the second Gulf War, and the decision by President George W. Bush to “liberate” Iraq, oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and launch an ... another Middle Eastern country and undertake more regime change and nation building in the region, and that it should at all cost avoid another Iraq.
The National Interest Online
February 19, 2018
President Bush, with his expansive freedom agenda, set a high priority on the use of U.S. power to promote liberty and democracy. President Obama, less committed ... Unsurprisingly, given the president's views of the wars in Iraq and Libya, regime change is out for now. Challenging authoritarian regimesÃâà...
Consortium News
February 14, 2018
The U.S. has been seeking regime change in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998. Trump joined Presidents Obama and Bush before him in continuing efforts to change the government and put in place a U.S.-friendly oligarch government. They came closest in 2002 when a military coupÃâà...
New York Times
February 5, 2018
President George W. Bush would have ordered the war even without the United Nations presentation, or if Secretary Powell had failed miserably in giving it ... from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which vehemently opposes the Iran nuclear deal and unabashedly calls for regime change in Iran.
NJ.com
December 31, 1999
Back then, The Donald was lampooning the Bush 43-era idea that "regime change" to liberate foreigners was a fitting goal for the government sitting in Washington. He was also insisting on a foreign policy that would put "America First" - much to the consternation of those so-called "neo" conservatives whoÃâà...
Common Dreams
December 31, 1999
It is this racism and xenophobia, not to mention lack of basic empathy, that provides the toxic fuel for Bolton's pro-war and pro-regime change positions. He forged his template for a bellicose, rather than isolationist, brand of “America First” foreign policy at George W. Bush's State Department and as U.S.Ãâà...
War Is Boring
December 31, 1999
... sophisticated and peaceable rhetoric than Bush's, his moves would prove largely cosmetic when it came to this country's forever wars: a significant reduction in the use of conventional ground troops, but more drones, more commandos and yet more acts of ill-advised regime change. Don't get me wrong.
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