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Condoleezza Rice will be there. So will Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett and Michael Gerson. And George W. Bush himself.
The old gang is getting back together next week in Dallas for a reunion of sorts, the Bush team’s first since leaving the White House. On tap is a dinner with the former president and a daylong discussion of the future George W. Bush Policy Institute.
Barely 80 days after turning the Oval Office over to President Obama, a tanned and rested Mr. Bush is emerging from seclusion to begin his postpresidency. He has started gi [ READ MORE... ]
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The White House has been reported to have secretly stepped up covert operations inside Iran with the aim of destablising its leadership.
President George W Bush requested and received funding of $400 million (£200 million) for the plan after he made a secret appeal to Congressional leaders last year.
The money is likely to be used for operations carried out by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, according to the New Yorker magazine.
The appeal for funds "was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine [ READ MORE... ]
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President George W. Bush raised the possibility Wednesday of a military strike against Iran's presumed nuclear weapons ambitions, speaking bullishly on that approach while admitting to having been unwise to use it in Iraq.
Bush's host for two days of meetings at a baroque castle, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, made clear her views without directly countering her guest. "I very clearly pin my hopes on diplomatic efforts," Merkel said, reflecting the deeply held European opinion that military action against Iran is nearly unthinkable.
Ira [ READ MORE... ]
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The US Supreme Court ruling that Guantanamo prisoners can challenge their detention in US civilian courts dealt a blow to President George W. Bush, but a senior official said Friday the military trials will continue.
"The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times," the court said Thursday in its historic ruling, the third blow in four years to the government's case for trying "war on terror" suspects in military tribunals.
"Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are [ READ MORE... ]
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US President George W Bush has bluntly declared that the battered US economy is not in a recession but "in a slowdown."
"We're not in a recession," Mr Bush said as he met Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in New Orleans.
"But there's no question we're in a slowdown. And, yes, people are concerned about it, obviously.
"Of all the three of us standing up here, I'm probably the most concerned about the slowdown. After all, it's affecting the people who I have the honour of representing," he added [ READ MORE... ]
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George W. Bush publicly addressed Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States in an interview with EWTN. In addition, Bush also addressed concerns of interest to Catholics such as the position of Christians in Iraq, relations with China, and the creation of a “culture of life.”
The president explained the reasons he would meet Pope Benedict’s airplane upon its arrival at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, saying this unprecedented greeting was due to the particular significance of the Pope.
"One, he speaks for milli [ READ MORE... ]
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