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Archives: Bush
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Did David Brooks & the NeoCons pave the Way for Trump?
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Apart from being a police officer, firefighter, or soldier engaged in one of this nation’s endless wars, writing a column for…![Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-visa-denials-target-same-c-187x137.jpg)
Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's shameful halt to the admission of refugees for 6 months and his 3-month pause in allowing entry to the US from seven…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/rocco_martin-161x137.jpg)
Top 4 Ways Bush even more Outrageously Dissed the Intelligence Community
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency counter-terrorist center and FBI National Security Branch, has been on CNN maintaining that…![Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/iraq-bush-dod-paid-pr-firm-milli-187x137.jpg)
Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories
By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…![The other Casualty of Iraq War: The Country’s Whole Health System](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/the-other-casualty-of-iraq-war-t-1-187x137.jpg)
The other Casualty of Iraq War: The Country’s Whole Health System
Ahmed Aber | (The Conversation) | - - Thirteen years ago, American and British troops launched Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Iraqis were promised freedom from tyranny, but the subsequent destruction of the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/gordonnuremberg-180x137.jpg)
Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Intro: Rebecca Gordon catches the nightmarish quality of those [Bush] years, now largely buried, in the grim case of a single mistreated human…![The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/the-iraq-war-never-ended-an-inte-187x137.jpg)
The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal
By Charles Davis | ( TeleSur | - - The U.S. is at war with the same extremist group it claimed to have defeated five years ago, and it’s relying on sectarian…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/rumwmd-378x230-1-187x137.jpg)
One Reason the GOP Bigwigs hate Trump: He told the truth about Bush WMD Lies
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - Recently Donald Trump broke with Republican convention and roiled the party base by boldly stating “You call it whatever you want. I…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/cheneyism2-187x137.jpg)
How Bush-Cheneyism made Mideast in its Image: Wars, WOT, With us or Against Us
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thirteen years after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, it is worth considering its full impact on this country and on the region.…![Bush Sr. Blames Neocons for Ruining W.’s Presidency: Is he Warning Jeb?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/11/bush-sr-blames-neocons-for-ruini-187x137.jpg)
Bush Sr. Blames Neocons for Ruining W.’s Presidency: Is he Warning Jeb?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In interviews given for a new biography, George H. W. Bush, 91 lets loose against Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, whom he clearly…![With Ahmad Chalabi’s Death, Passing of an Age of Lies](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/11/with-ahmad-chalabis-death-passin-187x137.jpg)
With Ahmad Chalabi’s Death, Passing of an Age of Lies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Ahmad Chalabi (1944-2015) died of a heart attack in Iraq on Tuesday. Clarence Darrow, the great trial lawyer and orator, said, "I’ve never…![Yes, George W. Bush bears some Responsibility for the 9/11 Attacks](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/10/yes-george-w-bush-bears-some-res-187x137.jpg)
Yes, George W. Bush bears some Responsibility for US Vulnerability on 9/11
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Donald Trump-Jeb Bush tiff over whether George W. Bush "kept us safe" is another example of how Donald Trump is better than…![How Bush/Cheney’s War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/09/how-bushcheneys-war-plans-delaye-187x137.jpg)
How Bush/Cheney’s War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade
By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | - - OXFORD (IPS) - When negotiations between Iran and the European “Troika” broke down, the reformist government of Mohammad Khatami was discredited in…![Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/09/why-dick-cheney-is-just-as-wrong-187x137.jpg)
Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq
By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | - - There are so many lies in Dick Cheney's address to the AEI that one hardly knows where to begin in refuting them. He…![Memo to Jeb Bush: It was the Surge that created ISIL, not Hillary](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/08/memo-to-jeb-bush-it-was-the-surg-187x137.jpg)
Memo to Jeb Bush: It was W’s Surge that created ISIL, not Hillary
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Jeb Bush very unwisely went after Hillary Clinton last night on the grounds that her Iraq policies gave us Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Bush…![Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/08/top-cringe-worthy-foreign-policy-187x137.jpg)
Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Well we had the primetime GOP debate, so the 2016 election season has formally begun. Trump declared himself more or less an independent.…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/trump-swiftboats-mccain-the-way-187x137.jpg)
Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump
By Juan Cole - (Informed Comment) - It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about was his occasional cynicism. "Obama scolded him…![The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis “Jeb” Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/the-middle-east-policy-of-presid-187x137.jpg)
The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis “Jeb” Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Jeb Bush announced his run for president on Monday. It is hard to know what his Middle East policy would be from his…![Donald Rumsfeld Blames Bush For Iraq Democracy Fail](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064107im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/donald-rumsfeld-blames-bush-for-187x137.jpg)