Posts Tagged ‘ President George W Bush ’

A Nation of Cynics

Just two weeks into the Obama administration, naysayers are already pronouncing the man and his administration a failure! And the reason, his promise to institute ethics reform and the revelation that some of his nominees had lapsed tax payments. That’s right. The same group who sat idly by, and in most cases were accomplices...
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A Nation of Hand-Wringers

Now that the elections have been fought and won by a once improbable candidate, Americans have quickly reverted to type – worrying about everything and nothing on how the new president will govern. It never ceases to amaze me how much influence a negative culture has on a nations psyche. Here is a candidate...
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We are all Georgians? What the…..

I caught the last phase of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s speech at the GOP Convention today and I must say, there was a reason that idiotic fool did not make it in the Republican presidential primaries. In the first place, that the Republican party that touts itself as holier-than-thou, all-about-family party will...
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The fallacy of the Bush Doctrine

The political pronouncements of U.S. President George W. Bush following the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center have collectively come to be known as “The Bush Doctrine”. These foreign policy principles were anchored on the declaration that the United States of America had the right to treat “hostile” nations, particularly those suspected of...
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AFRICOM Revisited: What is at stake?

A while back, the United States of America proposed the creation of an African Military Command to be known as AFRICOM, to enable the US Department of Defence (DOD) “better focus its resources to support and enhance existing U.S. initiatives that help African nations, the African Union and the regional economic communities succeed”. In other...
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