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Bush's second coup aids election race By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 21 December 2003 The announcement by Libya has given President Bush his second coup in a week and delivered a resounding blow against Howard Dean, the man most likely to be his challenger in next year's presidential race. When Saddam Hussein was dragged from a hole near Tikrit last weekend, Mr Dean pointed out that his capture had done nothing to make America safer - an analysis shared by many observers. Just six days later, however, the White House has been able to respond with what was presented as...

Hillary launches a savage assault on Bush's record By Julian Coman in Washington (Filed: 07/12/2003) Hillary Clinton has launched her most blistering attack yet on President George W Bush, accusing his administration of following an "extremist agenda" that must be stopped before "irreparable harm" is done to the United States. It was a considerably more robust performance than any of the Democrats' nine existing presidential candidates have managed, prompting renewed speculation that Mrs Clinton may have a last-minute change of heart and run for the White House in 2004. In a comment destined to excite her admirers, she said that...

George Bush's comrades eaten by their Japanese PoW guards By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 26/10/2003) The former President George Bush narrowly escaped being beheaded and eaten by Japanese soldiers when he was shot down over the Pacific in the Second World War, a shocking new history published in America has revealed. The book, Flyboys, is the result of historical detective work by James Bradley, whose father was among the marines later photographed raising the flag over the island of Iwo Jima. Lt George Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot, was among nine airmen who escaped from their planes after...

Britain rejects Bush's charges against charity By Sean O'Neill (Filed: 25/09/2003) Britain yesterday rejected claims by America that a London-based charity was a front group for the terrorist group Hamas. The Charity Commission said the US authorities were unable to substantiate claims that Interpal, which raises £4 million a year, channelled money to Hamas for terrorist and political activities. Investigators lifted a month-long freeze on Interpal's bank accounts and allowed it to continue operating normally. Last month President George W Bush ordered the US Treasury to "block and freeze" all Interpal's assets and declared that the charity was a "specially...

<p>He's come to the wrong place with the wrong plan.</p> <p>"We're all scratching our heads over why the president would attempt to use the 'Aspen' fire as a political stage for his Healthy Forests Initiative," said Brian Segee of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity.</p>

Berlusconi flees European controversies with a visit to Bush's ranch By David Usborne in New York 21 July 2003 The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has plenty of reasons to escape European shores this summer as the controversy over his recent gibe comparing a German MEP to a Nazi concentration camp collaborator refuses to die. And so it was yesterday that he was flying far away - to Texas. The visit was to be a brief one, but he was assured a warm welcome. His destination was a ranch in Crawford, Texas and the host was a friend, both personally...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Jennifer Mann flipped from channel to channel for the latest news about the terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia, an exercise in frustration for the Democratic state legislator from Pennsylvania.</p> <p>"Everywhere I turned, there was President Bush," she said with a sigh.</p>

Bush's blueprint for future conceals a declaration of war By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 28 February 2003 There were a few conditionals at the start, describing what "would" happen if an American-led coalition were to invade Iraq. There was the obligatory expression of hope that Baghdad will "meet the demands of the UN and disarm fully and peacefully". But that pretence quickly vanished. Within a minute or two, it wasn't "would" but "will" – what will happen when Saddam Hussein's regime is destroyed and the American military runs Iraq. President Bush's words on Wednesday can be read in many keys:...

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today welcomed the announcement by United States President George W. Bush of a total of $15 billion in funding to help in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Referring to Mr. Bush's pledge, made last night in his State of the Union address, the Secretary-General congratulated the US President on his promise to provide stronger US leadership in combating the devastating impact of the global AIDS epidemic. "An additional $10 billion - making a total of $15 billion over the next five years, with a new emphasis on access to life-saving treatment and care for...

The face of power, the raw, real power of Bush's America By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 09 November 2002 In the space of a few minutes yesterday, two starkly contrasting faces of power were on view: diplomatic power, clothed in the formulaic rites of the United Nations Security Council, and raw, real power as brandished by President George Bush in the Rose Garden of the White House. For a moment, surveying the placid scene at the Security Council, or reading the nuanced legalistic language of Resolution 1441, you could believe the vote was the unqualified opinion of 15 like-minded nations,...

When Bush 41 was president he had a campaign slogan “Read my lips no new taxes!” When it came to getting the democrats to sign on to the war with Iraq they made a deal. They said we’ll sign on if you raise taxes, unfortunately for our country the blackmail was successful. Then when Mr. Clinton ran for president the democrats whacked Bush over and over again for going back on his word. We know that the democrats would probably like to tax all of the income, so that they can redistribute it as well. So we know they would...

Congressmen attack Bush's isolationist policy 10:41 29 August 02 NewScientist.com news service US President George Bush has come under surprise attack from leading American politicians at the World Summit for the "disastrous consequences" of his isolationist foreign policy. In an early morning press conference which caused a mini-sensation in Johannesburg on Thursday, three democratic congressmen and a former state governor launched a fierce broadside against Bush for ignoring the world's attempts to cut poverty and pollution. "There are two Americas," said Jerry Brown, a former governor of California. One was "an America of isolationship and retreating from co-operation with the...

A week's worth 9-11 smear-mongering by leading Democrats and their media handmaidens has failed to dent President Bush's popularity, according to the latest CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll. More than three-quarters of those surveyed gave Bush a positive job approval rating, despite an onslaught of politically motivated accusations that administration officials failed to connect the dots on intelligence data that could have forewarned of the 9-11 attacks. Sixty percent of those surveyed said the information available before the attacks would not have been enough for administration officials to have predicted what was coming. Nineteen percent said the Bush administration made "an understandable...

Bush's secret weapon Is Condoleezza Rice set to become the first black female US vice-president? Sharon Krum reports Monday May 6, 2002 The Guardian Condoleezza Rice once described her childhood as one where she couldn't sit at the lunch counter at Woolworths, but her parents still told her she could grow up to be president. Racism and segregation ruled her world in the deep south, but inside the Rice home, the great American myth prevailed. Stay in school, work hard, trust in God, and yes, you - a little black girl from Birmingham, Alabama - might actually move into the...