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September 2008
- Bush's Biggest Mistake: Declaring Religious War
  
  Boston Globe | Sep 15, 08 3:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The 9/11 attacks would’ve posed a great challenge to any president, but George Bush’s response, to invoke God and declare a Manichean quest to “rid the world of evil,” made him Osama bin Laden’s accomplice, writes James Carroll in the Boston Globe . "Bush is criticized for many things," writes Carroll, "but his most grievous failure lies in having fallen into bin Laden's trap." More »
June 2008
- Bush London Trip Sparks Clashes
  
  BBC | Jun 16, 08 3:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators clashed with London police as they protested President Bush's visit yesterday, reports the BBC. Protesters chanted "George Bush, terrorist!" but were kept out of the president's earshot as he arrived at 10 Downing Street. More »
April 2008
- Next Prez's To-Do: Fix Diplomacy
  
  Slate | Apr 3, 08 4:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Taking the attitude that "since we were now all-powerful, allies were no longer necessary," President Bush damaged the US' image and diminished its power, Fred Kaplan writes in Slate. How can the next president heal our diplomatic woes? Visit all Middle East countries; leave a full-time envoy: "It is appalling that President Bush made his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories in his final year." More »
November 2007
- Bush's Japan Policy Lost in Translation
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 16, 07 11:33 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - As President Bush welcomes the third Japanese prime minister in 3 years to Washington today, a former Tokyo correspondent writes in the Los Angeles Times that current difficulties with arguably our most important ally stem from a fundamental Bush misunderstanding. W has confused Japan with the US's other "special relationship," he writes, and treated Japanese PMs as if they were Tony Blair. More »
- Chavez Calls Cheney & Co. 'Ignorant Fools' After Slip-up
  
  Associated Press | Nov 7, 07 11:49 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Hugo Chavez had a little fun at Dick Cheney's expense yesterday; after the US vice president confused Venezuela with Peru in a weekend speech, the bombastic Venezuelan president said the slip-up showed that "those who govern the United States are a bunch of ignorant fools. "They don't know where Venezuela is, nor do they know where Peru is," Chavez said, laughing. More »
October 2007
- Dutch Lawmakers Offended by US Lawmaker
  
  Associated Press | Oct 27, 07
  
  Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay." Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, was responding to arguments that the United States should shut down the prison, located on a U.S. naval base in Cuba, the lawmakers said. Mariko Peters, a member of the Dutch Green Party, who began the exchange with Lantos,...
- Bush to Urge Cubans to Rise Up
  
  New York Times | Oct 24, 07 4:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush is expected to make a landmark speech on Cuba today, calling the transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his brother Raul unacceptable to the United States. The president will also address the Cuban people, urging them to resist "the force of a dying regime," reports the New York Times . More »
- China Livid at Dalai Lama Award
  
  Reuters | Oct 18, 07 8:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China called the US ambassador on the carpet today, saying that the US had "gravely undermined relations" when President Bush yesterday presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters that DC is "very aware of what steps it can take" to correct the rift and accused the Dalai Lama of "manipulating Tibetans." More »
- US Awards Medal to Dalai Lama
  
  New York Times | Oct 17, 07 4:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Congress awarded the Dalai Lama its highest civilian honor today, New York Times reports. At the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal, which went ahead despite vehement Chinese opposition, the Tibetan spiritual leader congratulated China on its economic growth and gently urged that the country embrace “transparency, the rule of law and freedom of information.” More »
- Bush Meets Dalai Lama, but Quietly
  
  Reuters | Oct 16, 07 4:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush ignored China's fury today and met with the Dalai Lama, who will pick up a Congressional Gold Medal tomorrow, Reuters reports. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world," said a Tibetan Communist Party boss. But the Dalai Lama shrugged off China's rage, saying, "That always happens." More »
- Dubya Will Meet With Dalai
  
  BBC | Oct 12, 07 3:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush will meet with the Dalai Lama next week before the monk is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Not so delighted with the Washington love fest are Chinese government officials, and the meeting is bound to infuriate them further. Beijing has already blasted the US for “using the Dalai Lama to interfere in China's internal affairs." More »
- Turkey Enraged by Genocide Bill
  
  BBC | Oct 11, 07 9:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Turkey erupted today over a US bill that would officially recognize the 1915-1917 mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Turkey’s president said the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which passed the resolution 27-21, “sought to sacrifice big problems for small domestic political games.” He promised “serious trouble” for US-Turkish relations, reports the BBC. Turkey is a key US ally and staging ground for the Iraq war. More »
- Armenia Measure Puts White House, Turkey on Edge
  
  Washington Post | Oct 10, 07 11:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A bill to term the World War I-era deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Turkish government "genocide" is winning support in Congress—making the White House squirm and Turkey fume, the Washington Post r eports. President Bush and eight former Secretaries of State have warned Speaker Nancy Pelosi the issue jeopardizes a major US alliance. More »
September 2007
- US at Odds With World Over Climate Change
  
  Guardian (UK) | Sep 29, 07 7:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - International diplomats in Washington for a conference on climate change lashed out yesterday after President Bush proposed non-binding global emissions standards. Even big polluters China and India found Bush's plan unfeasible, instead favoring mandatory measures. A European diplomat had "never heard a more humiliating speech by a major leader," reports the Guardian. More »
- Mind the Gaffe, Prez!
  
  Reuters | Sep 9, 07 7:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As usual, President Bush didn't mind the gaffe and stumbled again—and again—this weekend on the eve of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering in Sydney. He referred to Australian troops as Austrian troops and called the APEC summit the OPEC summit., Reuters reports. "Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush told Australian Prime Minister John Howard. More »
July 2007
- Rent-a-Yanks Push Goodwill Abroad
  
  Der Spiegel | Jul 27, 07 10:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - American exchange students in Germany are so bombarded with broadsides against the US government and lifestyle that one university has started a program called "Rent an American." Yanks visit German schools to answer questions about the Bush administration, climate change, and the death penalty, all in an effort to help parry anti-American attitudes. More »
- Cheney Pushing Bush Toward Military Option On Iran
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jul 16, 07 6:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Dick Cheney is winning a West Wing power struggle, pushing the president toward the threat of military action against Iran, the Guardian reports. After an internal review over the last month, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates favor continued diplomacy, but are said to be losing the argument. "Bush is not going to leave office with Iran in limbo," a Washington source tells the paper. More »
- Bush’s Biofuels Beat Castro’s Cautions
  
  Slate | Jul 9, 07 7:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The feud between biofuel booster George Bush and naysayer Fidel Castro is reviewed by Slate’ s William Saletan—who says in the end Bush's position is the more progressive one. In fact he calls the erstwhile compassionate conservative a “revolutionary.” Castro argues that biofuel will take food out of mouths in poor countries to run cars in rich countries; Saletan says no. More »
June 2007
- At G8, Bush Hangs Tough on Greenhouse Gas Goals
  
  International Herald Tribune | Jun 6, 07 10:16 PM CDT

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Bush's Biggest Mistake: Declaring Religious War

Bush London Trip Sparks Clashes

Next Prez's To-Do: Fix Diplomacy

Bush's Japan Policy Lost in Translation

Chavez Calls Cheney & Co. 'Ignorant Fools' After Slip-up

Dutch Lawmakers Offended by US Lawmaker

Bush to Urge Cubans to Rise Up

China Livid at Dalai Lama Award

US Awards Medal to Dalai Lama

Bush Meets Dalai Lama, but Quietly

Dubya Will Meet With Dalai

Turkey Enraged by Genocide Bill

Armenia Measure Puts White House, Turkey on Edge

US at Odds With World Over Climate Change

Mind the Gaffe, Prez!

Rent-a-Yanks Push Goodwill Abroad

Cheney Pushing Bush Toward Military Option On Iran

Bush’s Biofuels Beat Castro’s Cautions

At G8, Bush Hangs Tough on Greenhouse Gas Goals