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This page covers the actions of [[George W. Bush]]'s administration while he was President of the {{USA}}.
 
This page covers the actions of [[George W. Bush]]'s administration while he was President of the {{USA}}.
 
==Actions==
 
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* Accused of "[http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/12/bushs-war-on-press.html waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy]"
 
* Appears to be encouraging the spread of evangelism in the armed forces [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101650.html] ([http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111305F.shtml mirror @truthout]); also [http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1311971&secid=1] (need to find the actual wording to see just how innocuous it is...)
 
* Appears to be encouraging the spread of evangelism in the armed forces [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101650.html] ([http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111305F.shtml mirror @truthout]); also [http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1311971&secid=1] (need to find the actual wording to see just how innocuous it is...)
 
* Changed a $5 trillion budget surplus into a $5 trillion budget deficit in only four years (while continuing to reiterate the ever-popular [[The Big Lie|big lie]] about "tax-and-spend Liberals") – see [[US Presidential Administration Budgets]])
 
* Changed a $5 trillion budget surplus into a $5 trillion budget deficit in only four years (while continuing to reiterate the ever-popular [[The Big Lie|big lie]] about "tax-and-spend Liberals") – see [[US Presidential Administration Budgets]])

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This page covers the actions of George W. Bush's administration while he was President of the United States.

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Opinion

  • 2005-11-24 The long march of Dick Cheney (by Sidney Blumenthal, in Salon.com): "The hallmark of the Dick Cheney administration is its illegitimacy. Its essential method is bypassing established lines of authority; its goal is the concentration of unaccountable presidential power."
  • 2005-10-17 issue of Newsweek: On K Street Conservatism by George F. Will: "The fact that none of those responsible for the postwar planning, or lack thereof, in Iraq have been sacked suggests – no, shouts – that in Washington today there is no serious penalty for serious failure."