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The Bush way of war

The former United States president, George HW Bush, waged a secret campaign over several months early in 2006 to remove secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 13 Jun 2006

The president of dreams

When new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki unveiled his government on 20 May 2006, five months after his country's elections, and was unable to appoint ministers of defence

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 30 May 2006

The ruin of the CIA

Political manipulation and personal rivalry that both reflects and reinforces scandalous policy failure: Sidney Blumenthal dissects the saga of the CIA in the "war on terror" years. The

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 16 May 2006

The secret passion of George W Bush

The urgent dispatch of Karl Rove to the business of maintaining one-party rule in the mid-term elections in November 2006 is the Bush White House's belated startle reflex

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 2 May 2006

Bushs truth

President Bush has been in search of himself for two and a half years. His voyage of self-discovery began on 30 September 2003. Asked what he knew about senior White

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 20 Apr 2006

Bushs world of illusion

On the eve of the third anniversary 20 March 2003 of the invasion of Iraq, President Bush began the fourth of his series of speeches in his second term attempting

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 17 Mar 2006

Republicans representative of their permanent establishment have recently and quietly sent emissaries to President Bush, like diplomats to a foreign ruler isolated in his forbidden city, to probe whether he

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 3 Mar 2006

The rules of the game

In the original account authorised by United States vice-president Dick Cheney of his shooting of Harry Whittington, given by Katharine Armstrong, heiress and hunting companion, to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 17 Feb 2006

George W Bush: running on empty

The most significant and memorable statements in President Bush's lacklustre State of the Union address, the phrases that most clearly and succinctly captured the state of his presidency

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 3 Feb 2006

The Republican system

Hardly anyone in the Republican Party, in Congress or at the White House, seems to recall ever having met Jack Abramoff. Collective amnesia has suddenly descended upon the capital. The

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 20 Jan 2006

Bushs shadow government exposed

New ranges of secret government are emerging from the fog of war. The latest disclosure, by the New York Times, of domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency performed by

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 6 Jan 2006

Bushs surveillance network

President Bush's explanations of why he is justified in ordering domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency have shifted with every news cycle. He has sent out attorney-general

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 23 Dec 2005