It is pretty clear that, whatever big criticisms it launched at George W Bush and his administration when it was in power, that Reason magazine seems to have taken things up another notch after a recent frank, and frankly appalling speech by The One. David Harsanyi is not a happy bunny: "Smart people can grouse all they want about the supposed zealotry of the tea party or the conservative presiden...
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Samizdata on 7th Dec 2011 (via samizdata.net)
David Frum was one of George W Bush's speechwriters, who memorably recounts hearing, on his first visit to the Bush White House, one senior staffer ask another why they hadn't been at that morning's prayer breakfast. Since leaving the employ of the former president, Frum has maintained a profile as a stimulating Republican political commentator and thinker, but his latest article, for 'New York' m...
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PoliticsEtc on 23rd Nov 2011 (via sgspolitics.blogspot.com)
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state under George W Bush, clashed repeatedly with vice president Dick Cheney over the treatment of captured terror suspects, according to a leaked copy of her new memoir.
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Telegraph on 22nd Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Tony Blair was adamant that it would have been "profoundly wrong" not to have backed the US over Iraq war in 2003.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair has told the Iraq inquiry that former US president George W Bush was set on regime change in Iraq straight after the 9/11 attacks.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair had told the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war that messages he shared with President George W Bush must remain confidential because they were of a "very private" nature.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair's private letters to George W Bush in the build-up to the Iraq war should be published, argues Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain's former ambassador to Washington.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Private letters between Tony Blair and President George W Bush ahead of the war in Iraq were kept so secret that they did not officially exist.
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Telegraph on 19th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)