George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

As the end of July approached, Neil Bush was becoming a severe public relations problem for his father George. To make matters w ...

ways of preventing Iraq from rebuilding its postwar economy, and were exploring options for a new war to liquidate the undeniabl ...

a day before the meeting began, Mr. Bush squeezed in one more golf game on Wednesday morning, and left that night. But here, it ...

Germany in NATO. This was an issue that Bush and Thatcher had hoped would cause a much longer delay and much greater acrimony, b ...

Anglo-American strategy was thus to use economic warfare measures, including embargos on key technologies, to back Saddam Hussei ...

If Kuwait had been so vital to the security of the United States and the west, then it is clear that at any time between July 17 ...

official comprehension. Shortly after this, April Glaspie left Kuwait to take her summer vacation, another signal of elaborate U ...

Godmanis wanted recognition and aid, but Bush made no committments, and limited himself to asking several "very exact questions. ...

by other participants in the 8 AM meeting. Scowcroft was otherwise the leading hawk, raving that "We don't have the option to ap ...

As far as Saddam Hussein was concerned, Thatcher's argument is known to have been built around the ominous warning, "He won't st ...

against Iraq. The Iraqi invasion was a "totally unjustified act," Bush went on. It was now imperative that the "international co ...

Washington, near the Kennedy Center, who were chattel slaves according to United Nations definitions. When the time came in the ...

As Bush feared, Fahd was inclined to reject the US ground forces. There was a report that Iraq had announced that its forces wou ...

According to Ms. Dowd, an eyewitness, Bush was "visibly furious" when he climbed out of his helicopter. As Bush walked towards t ...

one questioner. "What's your question? I can read," raged Bush. Was Bush disappointed with King Hussein? I want to see the Arab ...

solution dead. No greater sabotage of peace efforts in the region could be imagined. Bush's stress on Kuwait indicates that his ...

they were deploying. With Thatcher there, Bush had the fig-leaf of an instant international coalition to use as a bludgeon again ...

inaugurated the Anglo-American Big Lie that the Iraqi actions had been "without provocation," which readers of daily newspapers ...

Why had it been a long night for Bush? He had made all of his important decisions on the troop movements during the day on Tuesd ...

...And that's what has been so very important about this concerted United Nations effort, unprecedented, you might say, or certa ...