George W. Bush

Iraq inquiry: Bush wanted Saddam dead for years Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing "regime change" in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told...

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...they were empty enough to ignore. When George W. Bush pushed him into schoolyard chest bumping with a whole world watching, he chose spectacular suicide, condemning Iraq to the fate that followed. In Afghanistan, the game is different,...

In this article: Saddam Hussein, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Kabul, Suicide, Finbarr O'Reilly, Wizard of Oz, U.S., and Kim Jong Il

Can this be true? When Bush tried to persuade President Chirac to go to war, Bush compared Saddam Hussein with Gog and Magog, obscure legendary figures named in the book of Ezekiel as enemies of the people of Israel. This sounds like a...

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...change". In particular, he pointed to an academic article written in 2000 by President Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, which warned that "nothing will change" in Iraq until Saddam was removed from power. Sir William...

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...Bush's desire to get rid of Saddam. The panel will want to know what assurances Blair gave Bush in a series of bilateral meetings, notably at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002. One leaked classified document reveals...

In this article: Tony Blair, Iraq War, Gordon Brown, UK, George Bush, Whitehall, Saddam Hussein, US, and Iraq

...of this will be hushed up anyway. Although I had no sympathy for the tyrant Saddam Hussein, I still believe Bush and Blair should be brought to account for waging agressive war on a flimsy contrived pretext. malky, Bucks, 24/11/2009 12:21

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Sir Peter Ricketts, a former chairman of Britain's powerful Joint Intelligence Committee, said officials in London knew even before Bush came to office in 2001 that there were "voices" in Washington calling for Saddam to be removed from...

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...about British policy and plans for Iraq in 2001. The British policy on Iraq was put under formal review at the start of 2001, when George W Bush arrived in the White House as US president. Sir William Patey, then head of Middle East policy...

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...Press Association Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing "regime change" in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told today. Sir Peter Ricketts,...

In this article: Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Washington, US, UN Security Council, Colin Powell, and State Department