Tag Archives : George W. Bush

Former U.S. president George W. Bush (2001-2009) ordered the Pentagon who planned attacks on Iran and Syria, he said in his autobiography “Decision Points“, which launched yesterday. The U.S. says to keep “all options on the table” over Iran, which Washington accuses of seeking to develop a bomb with its nuclear program. Tehran [...]

Confidential documents about the war in Iraq, released on Friday by the WikiLeaks site, show the support of Iraqi Shiite militias by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the elite Iranian military, the newspaper report The New York Times and Al Jazeera . The role of Iran in the Iraq War is the subject of numerous documents, many of which suggest that [...]

Solar energy is coming to President Barack Obama’s house. The most famous resident of the United States, which has already taken its first steps to green plant a garden, now plans to install in the spring next year’s solar panels to heat water and provide electricity. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced plans to Washington for a conference [...]

What are the main differences between George W. Bush and Obama? Let me see: the first was a joke for the American humorists, the second seems to be less “muddled” (although his first year as president has been a huge disappointment for those hoping for a change; Bush was hated in the world whole, Obama has celebrity status, but the reality is doing [...]

The Afghan surge can’t defeat terrorist ideology, experts say. According to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, ‘President Obama should have used his speech to declare victory and announce the start of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan instead of an escalation. Even if the surge achieves its immediate mission—at huge cost—the operation [...]

In the spring of 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated. Lebanon was plunged into some very profound questions that challenged everything it knew up until then regarding the connection between politics and religion, a fate that has long befallen the Arab world. Beirut Diaries, a documentary directed by a Palestinian-American, [...]

According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape capture in order to justify the [...]

In an October 1 meeting, Western governments ‘proposed that Iran agree to ship up to 80 percent of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a small medical reactor in Tehran.’ At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) negotiations in Vienna last month, outgoing IAEA Director General ElBaradei [...]

George W. Bush once boasted that the US presence in Afghanistan has ‘given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans.’ To propel the war in Afghanistan, ‘Bush frightened Americans with a bogus nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . . . We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and [...]

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his colleague from Chile, Michelle Bachelet, demonstrated dissatisfaction in relation to the agreement that the neighbor Colombia should sign next weeks with the United States to increase the American troops in three American military bases that exist at the country. The Colombian government, the [...]