Moore was a critic of George W. Bush's Iraq War, and has stated that " the world was a safer place when Ronald Reagan was in the White House ".

This would be ironic, as Richard Ingrams in The Independent wondered whether Straw's predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, was also removed at Bush's request, allowing Straw to become Foreign Secretary in the first place.

" Serra also created a variation on Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son featuring George W. Bush's head in place of Saturn's.

Under Mel Bush's management, Mrvica's performances generally take place against a backdrop of special lighting, stage and video effects.

With Bush's approval ratings high, and his unambiguous show of determination and will, he gained congressional support for the delay ; following that, the diplomatic pieces soon fell into place and the parties convened in Madrid at the end of October.

Perhaps the most widely viewed YPAS performance, took place at President George W. Bush's first term Inauguration, when the YPAS chorus sang " America the Beautiful ".

According to Ponnuru, Bush's speechwriters had more prominence in the administration than their predecessors did under previous presidents because Bush's speeches did most of the work of defending the president's policies, since administration spokesmen and press conferences did not.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant ( junior grade ) on August 1, the San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands.

During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire ; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire.

R & B singer Maxwell featured harpist Gloria Agostini in 1997 on his cover of Kate Bush's " This Woman's Work ".

By the time of the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Bush was a bit late in supporting enterprise zones, tenant ownership and welfare reform: Mort Zuckerman compared Bush's vision on racial issues to that of a man riding backwards in a railroad car.

On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.

Falwell supported President George W. Bush's Faith Based Initiative, but had strong reservations concerning where the funding would go and the restrictions placed on churches.

In July 2003 Stauber and Sheldon Rampton wrote Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, which argued that the Bush administration deceived the American public into supporting the war.

In " Memex: Getting Back on the Trail ", Tim Oren argues that Bush's original vision expressed in AWMT describes a "... private device into which public encyclopedia's and colleague's trails might be inserted to be joined with the owner's own work.

However, in Bush's manuscript draft of " Memex II " of 1959 ( also published in ), Bush says, " Professional societies will no longer print papers ..." and states that individuals will either order sets of papers to come on tape-complete with photographs and diagrams-or download ' facsimiles ' by telephone.

Buckland also states that Bush's idea should be viewed from the historical perspective of microfilm technology developed prior to 1945 rather than based on the power and versatility of digital computer technology developed after 1945.

U. S. President George W. Bush's remark that " this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while ", which prompted widespread criticism from the Islamic world, may also have contributed to the renaming of the operation.

President Bush's speech on October 18, 2003 was only the second U. S. Presidential address to the Philippine Congress ; U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the first.

** Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq ( 2003 )

An articulation of this philosophy could be found explicitly in Vannevar Bush's treatise on postwar science policy, Science — The Endless Frontier: " New products, new industries, and more jobs require continuous additions to knowledge of the laws of nature ...

According to the National Whistleblower Center, Coburn's hold on S. 274 has been done to further President Bush's agenda.

" Miller compared John Kerry negatively and blasted the senator for being critical of President George W. Bush's foreign policy by claiming Willkie refused to criticize FDR on foreign policy during a time of war.

In 2004, according to the President George W. Bush's Vision for Space Exploration, use of the Space Shuttle was to be focused almost exclusively on completing assembly of the ISS, which was far behind schedule at that point.

At the Convention, Bush's primary campaign opponent Pat Buchanan gave his famous " culture war " speech, criticizing Clinton and Gore's social progressiveness, and voicing skepticism on his " New Democrat " brand.

The race narrowed, as Perot's numbers significantly improved as Clinton's numbers declined, while Bush's numbers remained more or less the same from earlier in the race as Perot and Bush began to hammer at Clinton on character issues once again.

* Full text of George Bush's speech on Israel and a Palestinian state

Bush's idea for the memex extended far beyond a mechanism which might augment the research of one individual working in isolation.

McCain caused widespread speculation by suggesting in April 2004 that he might consider an offer from Kerry, although he later claimed that was not a serious comment, and that he supports Bush's reelection.

" James Berardinelli commented that " If this was a serious examination of the possible long-term ramifications of George Bush's current foreign policy, or if it had anything interesting to say about Bush's legacy, it might be justifiable.

This denouement does great harm to Mr Bush's credibility and to that of the United States ; it has got us into a ghastly mess in Iraq ; and it has diverted attention, resources and military might from the war that should have commanded the Bush administration's highest priority-the Afghan war against al-Qa ' ida and international terrorism.

For example, Derbyshire supported Michael Schiavo's position in the Terri Schiavo case, ridiculed George W. Bush's " itty-bitty tax cut, paid for by dumping a slew of federal debt on your children and grandchildren ", has derided Bush in general for being too sure of his religious convictions and for his " rich-kid-ness ", dismisses small-government conservatism as unlikely to ever take hold ( although he is not unsympathetic to it ), has called for immediate U. S. withdrawal from Iraq ( but favored the invasion ), opposes market reforms or any other changes in Social Security, is pro-choice on abortion, supports euthanasia in a fairly wide range of circumstances, and has suggested that he might ( in a time of international crisis ) vote for Hillary Clinton as president.

Buckland suggests that Bush and his team may not have been aware of Goldberg's earlier work when they built their 1938-1940 prototype, but that IBM researchers and Bush's Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory sponsor certainly were.

The decision generated controversy in light of the Bush's support of the Iraq War which the church bishops have criticized.

Others have endorsed President Bush's faith-based initiatives and accept government funding.

Anti-war critics have claimed that the Bush Doctrine was strongly polarizing domestically, had estranged allies of the United States, and belied Bush's stated desire to be a " uniter, not a divider ".

The Post editorial positions on foreign policy and economic issues have seen a definitively conservative bent: it steadfastly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, warmed to President George W. Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security, opposed a deadline for U. S. withdrawal from the Iraq War, and advocated free trade agreements, including CAFTA.

He was the only Democrat to have served in Bush's cabinet and the first Secretary of Transportation to have previously served in a cabinet position.

Barbara Bush's cause as First Lady was family literacy, as it was when she was Second Lady, calling it " the most important issue we have ".

She is known to have a friendly relationship with both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, who awarded her Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 At other times, she has also questioned both political parties: " Dear Uncle Sam " was written in 1966 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to " recount the human costs of the Vietnam War ", and she made a return to her live sets during the Iraq War under George W. Bush's presidency.

Initial Aegis BMD success may have contributed to President George W. Bush's decision to deploy an emergency ballistic missile capability by late 2004.

He went to Bush's Texas ranch to deliver a swift boat ad complaint, but the event failed to have much impact.

Some pro-life commentators have also criticized the policy and Bush's reinstitution of it as being only a nominal gesture toward the pro-life community.

nom de guerre have included convicted ELF arsonists, as well as hacktivists who successfully attacked the websites of DARE, Republican National Committee and sites related to U. S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.

McKinney gained national attention for remarks she made following the 2001 US attacks, charging that the United States had advance knowledge of the attacks and that US President George W. Bush may have been aware of the incipient attack and allowed them to happen, allegedly due to his father's business interests: " It is known that President Bush's father, through the Carlyle Group, had – at the time of the attacks – joint business interests with the bin Laden construction company and many defense industry holdings, the stocks of which have soared since September 11.

In 2005, Kilfoyle allegedly defied the British Official Secrets Act when he claimed to have passed information supposedly detailing then U. S. President George W. Bush's plan to bomb an Arabic TV station.

Some recent major issues that have gone through this committee include welfare reform, a Medicare prescription drug benefit, Social Security reform, George W. Bush's tax cuts, and trade agreements including the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ).

Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller would also have been among the long-term incumbents had he not resigned at the end of 1973, with a year left in his term as governor of New York ; Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin would have also served sixteen years had he not resigned halfway into his fourth term to become George W. Bush's first Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Bush's image on domestic issues, as well as poor housing construction which may have led to such high levels of destruction.

Critics have argued that the crux of Bush's campaign was the suggestion that John Kerry would be soft on terrorism in comparison to George Bush, and to present Bush as a " war President ".

According to three pilots from Bush's squadron, Bush inquired about this program but was advised by the base commander that he did not have the necessary experience ( 500 hours ) at the time and that the F-102 would soon be retired.

Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Otto Reich, stated that the U. S. government was " concerned about the impact that an FMLN victory could have on the commercial, economic, and migration-related relations of the U. S. with El Salvador.