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George W. Bush stories: 1221 news summaries

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Wooing Syria
Is Tougher Than Pelosi Thinks

Experts laud diplomatic offensive, warn of potential failure

Apr 4, 07 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal puts Nancy Pelosi's high profile visit to Damascus in perspective in a piece outlining the vexing complexity of relations between Syria and the U.S. A number of Pentagon and State Dept. counterterrorism officials support the  congressional effort  to moderate the President's hard line on Syria,... More »

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Iran • Nancy Pelosi • Syria • Bashar al Assad • George W. Bush

Pelosi Says Syria Is Ready for Peace Talks

House Speaker ends US boycott and meets with Syrian president

Apr 4, 07 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Syria is ready to resume peace talks with Israel, based on her meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, the BBC reports. Flying in the face of Bush's Syrian boycott, Pelosi and a congressional delegation are in Damascus meeting with top leaders. Bush said the visit undermined... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Israel • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad • George W. Bush

The Letter That Launched a War

The Post tracks the bogus document from an Italian journalist to the President's hands

Apr 3, 07 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - How the so-called "Italian Letter"—the discredited document suggesting Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium from Niger—made its way from the hands of an Italian journalist into the President's State of the Union speech is the subject of an irresistible piece of sleuthing by  Peter Eisner in... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • nuclear proliferation • George W. Bush

Bush Staying the Course on Veto

President refuses to compromise on Iraq funding

Apr 3, 07 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush is staying the course in the war with Congress, ripping into "Democrat leaders" in a press conference today, and repeating his vow to veto any bills with troop withdrawal deadlines that crossed his desk. Congress, he said, is more clearly interested in fighting political battles than real ones. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • War on Terror • Congress • Pentagon • Democrats • Republican • politics • presidential politics • veto • troop withdrawal • George W. Bush

Thompson Joins Race for 2008

Claims he's the only real conservative
in the GOP field

Apr 2, 07 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former governor and Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson announced  for president yesterday, staking a claim to the territory to the right of the other GOP contenders. "I am the reliable conservative, my record shows that,"  said the one-time secretary of Health and Human Services and four-term governor... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Middle East • Republican • health insurance • politics • Tommy Thompson • Health and Human Services • presidency • Wisconsin • Cabinet • presidential campaign • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

Mink: He's Merely a Pawn

Gonzales was Irrelevant even before the attorneys mess

Mar 29, 07 10:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Who really cares if Alberto Gonzales resigns? Nobody but his family and friends, writes Eric Mink in the St. Louis Dispatch. Because Bush's embattled attorney general proved himself inconsequential long before the botched firings of the  insufficiently loyal U.S. attorneys. Congress learned how little clout the AG had when... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Attorney General • George W. Bush

Karl Rove Finds His
Inner Eminem

Bush's main man busts a few moves at the White House correspondents' dinner

Mar 29, 07 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - White House codger-in-residence Karl Rove debuted his hip-hop alter ego, "MC Rove," at last night's correspondents dinner, the Politico reports. Bush's embattled adviser shouted "I'm MC Rove" at comedian-appointed intervals, pretending gamely to have a sense of humor (and any idea how to win the black vote)... More »

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Karl Rove • NBC • White House • correspondent • Eminem • George W. Bush

(Newser) - With Congress and the president now officially at war over Iraq, all parties scrambled yesterday to gear up for the coming firefight. The President promised to veto the spending bill with troop withdrawal deadlines attached, seeming to relish the fight ahead. Tthe newly aggressive and unified Democrats, notes the New ... More »

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Iraq • Congress • military • Democrats • Republican • war • Iraq war • Iraq exit strategy • Iraq war spending • George W. Bush

Senate Backs Troop Pullout Timetable

Bill ties troop funding to March 2008 withdrawal deadline

Mar 28, 07 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats in the Senate  pulled off a surprise victory yesterday in their bid to force President Bush to bring troops home from Iraq—deflecting a GOP effort to kill the troop withdrawal plan. The Democrats’ proposal sets a March 2008 deadline for ending the conflict and is folded into a... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Congress • Democrats • Chuck Hagel • Charles Schumer • war • US troops • troop withdrawal • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Bush Is Worse Than a Lame Duck

Mar 27, 07 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FT catalogs a litany of the obstacles for President Bush achieving anything meaningful in his last 22 months in office. At the core of it all is the Iraq war, which has reduced Bush’s popularity to the point where he has no more political capital to spend. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Congress • terrorism • Republican • politics • war • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty

Australian who trained with al Quaeda has spent five years in custody

Mar 27, 07 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Hicks became the first person convicted under President Bush's much-maligned military tribunal system after entering a surprise guilty plea  to charges of providing material support to terrorists. The contentious proceedings may prove a new source of controversy, however, as the judge excluded Hicks' stwo civilian lawyers from court and... More »

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War on Terror • politics • David Hicks • Australia • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • court • conviction • detainee • guilty plea • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

Novak: Bush
Is Alone On Gonzales

"In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party"

Mar 26, 07 8:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - There is virtually no support on Capitol Hill for the president's wish to save Alberto Gonzales, who is even more disliked than Rumsfeld was, Robert Novak wrote today. "In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress.  Not Jimmy... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Alberto Gonzales • Republican • Capitol Hill • Robert Novak • George W. Bush

Gates Pushed
to Close Guantanamo

New defense secretary butted heads with Cheney, Gonzales

Mar 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly appointed Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed hard for shutting down the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but  was blocked by Cheney and Gonzales, until Bush pulled the plug on the argument.  Gates at least succeeded in halting a $100 million expansion of the prison he felt had... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Alberto Gonzales • politics • prison • Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • abuse • defense secretary • George W. Bush

(Newser) - The same legal argument marshaled to justify mistreating prisoners is behind the Bush administration’s contention that the President can fire U.S. attorneys for any reason or no reason, according to Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick. It’s the theory that a greater power—like killing people in war—embodies... More »

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Bush administration • justice system • US attorney • politics • courts • power • George W. Bush

House Vote: Make Rove Testify

Senate expected to approve subpoenas today in prosecutor firing flap

Mar 22, 07 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A House panel authorized subpoenas yesterday and the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to do so today in an effort to force Karl Rove and other top administration figures to testify about the firings of federal prosecutors. With the White House offering only private interviews, not under oath, the scene... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Karl Rove • Tony Snow • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • House of Representatives • Clinton administration • George W. Bush

Dems Score
With Subpoenas

They can't pass bills, but they can sure
hold hearings

Mar 20, 07 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats haven't managed to score with a single one of the bills drafted in their giddy first 100 hours, but playing hardball with hearings has proved more fruitful. In cranking up the congressional oversight machinery, write Richard Simon and Noam Levey, they've dominated headlines and applied pressure to the administration. More »

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Bush administration • ethics • Congress • Valerie Plame • investigation • Democrats • Congressional oversight • Democratic Congress • Congressional hearings • subpoena • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • George W. Bush

(Newser) - While the president has been busy assuring Americans that Iraq is a "noble" war, among those who haven't been listening are his wife, his children and his nieces and nephews, observes Kitty Kelley, who chronicled the Bush clan in 2004. The first family is AWOL on the war effort,... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Middle East • Barbara Bush • UNICEF • compulsory military service • Jenna Bush • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Libby's PR Flop

Scooter Libby: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty

Mar 18, 07 8:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Wolff attends the trial of Scooter Libby, concluding that Cheney's factotum was hung, drawn, and quartered because he failed to do well what Republicans have always (until now) done well: PR.  More »

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media • Dick Cheney • press • trial • Lewis Scooter Libby • Tim Russert • George W. Bush

Email Fingers Rove in Attorney Scandal

He knew about the firings in 2005

Mar 16, 07 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - An email released Thursday implicates Karl Rove in the U.S. attorney firings scandal, suggesting he knew of the plotted purges much earlier than previously acknowledged. In a message dated January 6, 2005, a White House lawyer reported that Rove had asked to discuss the firings with D. Kyle Sampon,... More »

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Department of Justice • US attorney • Karl Rove • Kyle Sampson • US attorneys scandal • Senate Judiciary Committee • subpoena • scandal • George W. Bush

Futures Market Predicts Libby Pardon   

Online traders put their money on
Scooter walking

Mar 11, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Traders at the online market Intrade.com betting big that President Bush will pardon Scooter Libby.  CNN reports that at the "prediction market," where people buy and sell futures contracts on real-world events, 63 percent of traders are bullish on the prospect of Libby receiving a pardon... More »

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Internet • trade • Intrade • futures contracts • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

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