George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

Bush was now conducting a systematic "mind war" campaign to coerce the American people into accepting the war he had already cho ...

sheets of the regime. It was in this speech that Bush repeated the Scowcroft slogan that will accompany his regime into the dust ...

deficit, which he had ignored in 1989, was a "cancer gnawing away at our nation's health." The plan he recommended, he pointed o ...

kiss Bush's ass. It was one of the most astounding gestures by a president in modern times, and posed the inevitable question: h ...

Bush possessed no solid base of support among any numerically significant group in the US electorate. Now, the Carteresque Bush ...

hustings, only to find that he was being shunned as the new Typhoid Mary of American politics. The first stop was an early-morni ...

highlight his differences with Bush. Many of the other tapes were never used; many of those endorsed pleaded as an excuse that t ...

was for the future: Bush's repudiation at the polls this time around was not enough to reduce him to an impotent lame duck with ...

that Thatcher had threatened to use military force the day before. Did Bush want war? "I would love to see a peaceful resolution ...

told reporters that support for Bush's Gulf policy was "at the teetering point-- the people are really becoming skeptical." His ...

security measures...taken in accord with the American security services." He denied that any submachine gun was ever pointed at ...

silence his Congressional critics. But in the meantime, Bush's path to war was beset with troubles on the domestic front. The gh ...

Bush's buildup went on inexorably through tYear, Bush offered a meeting of Baker and Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi foreign minister, in ...

look as if the loan forgiveness had been used to buy influence. Hatfield's actions were not in violation of senate rules at the ...

During the 1980's, Graham had run crusades in the Soviet bloc, something that is hard to do withoutintelligence connections. In ...

day after that, Bush described the Scud attacks as "purely an act of terror." Bush's mental health had not gotten any better dur ...

Take up the White Man's burden-- Ye dare not stoop to less Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloke your weariness, had written Rud ...

matters into their own hands, to force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside." [fn 86] With this call, Bush triggered the ...

in the neighborhood of 500,000 by the end of 1991. In early March, Bush addressed a special session of the Congress on what he c ...

administration line of non-intervention and "hands off" Iraqi internal affairs, and Bush himself repeated this line on April 3. ...