Regarding whether Mr. Bush knew in advance about the losses, the SEC investigators found: " The evidence establishes that George W. Bush was not aware of the majority of the items that comprised the loss Harken announced on August 20.

Regarding whether the stock was deliberately sold in time to avoid losing money before bad news was made public, the SEC found that Mr. Bush did not initiate the sale, but was contacted by a stockbroker who offered to buy a large block of Harken stock.

There are also questions about when federal regulators were informed of the sale, and whether Mr. Bush tried to hide this information.

Bush argued that recounts in Florida violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because there was no statewide standard that each county board could use to determine whether a given ballot was a legal vote.

The Bush administration commissioned the Iraq Survey Group to determine whether in fact any WMD existed in Iraq.

A common question was whether Republican supporters of George W. Bush could manipulate the election by posing as John Kerry supporters or as third-party supporters.

There were numerous other controversies in Florida's vote count: from the Palm Beach County butterfly ballots ; to the question of whether Bush would have still won the state in a full recount ; to how Katherine Harris, a Republican, was the cochair of the Bush campaign in Florida at the same time she was the Florida state secretary of state.

Bush's comments raised controversy in Australia over whether Bush was interfering in Australia's domestic political affairs, whether the election of a Latham government would endanger the U. S. alliance, and whether the comments were made with Howard's prior knowledge.

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial maintained that the purpose of the event was to discuss whether or not the Bush administration was involved in the 9 / 11 attacks, expressing surprise that McKinney was once again taking on the issue that was widely believed to have cost her her House seat.

On May 6, 2003, less than two months into the war, Kristof published an op-ed column titled " Missing in Action: Truth ," in which he questioned whether or not the intelligence gathered by the Bush administration, which purportedly indicated that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, was either faked or manipulated.

A controversy centered on questions of how George W. Bush, who later became the 43rd President of the United States, came to be a member of the Texas Air National Guard, why he lost his flight status, and whether he fulfilled the requirements of his military service contract during the Vietnam War.

After all, we might skeptically wonder of George W. Bush whether he could have been Al Gore.

Rasul v. Bush, 542 U. S. 466 ( 2004 ), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U. S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals ( non-U. S. citizens ) held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned.

Not long after, Hinchey — along with three other House Democrats — John Lewis of Georgia, Henry Waxman of California, and Lynn Woolsey of California — wrote the Justice Department, requesting an investigation to determine whether Bush administration violated any laws in authorizing and carrying out the program.

Some commentators ignored Bush's slur against the newly elected Democratic majority ; others " debated " whether Bush was intentionally using the term.

* Inspection of whether Fox News ' premature result-calling of the 2000 presidential election contributed to George W. Bush officially being elected.

Though a conservative Republican who contributed the maximum amount to the re-election campaign of George W. Bush, Hecht said that he would appear in support of Kerry if asked, though he declined to reveal whether he planned to vote for Kerry or for Bush.

When asked in 2003 about whether he planned to run for office himself, Bush replied that his grandmother, Barbara Bush, had advised that anyone thinking about entering politics should distinguish himself in some other field first: " Make a name for yourself, have a family, marry someone great, have some kids, buy a house, pay taxes, and do the things everyone also does instead of just running out and saying, ' Hey, I'm the nephew of or the son of or the grandson of ...'.

He stated in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not " artificially hold < nowiki ></ nowiki > George W. Bush and John Kerry ' equally ' accountable " to the public interest, and that complaints from Bush supporters were an attempt to " get away with ... renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry.

In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".

President George W. Bush, citing national security concerns, promised to veto the bill should it be enacted into law by Congress.

There were many names suggested and even after the change to Salem, some people, such as Asahel Bush ( editor of the Oregon Statesman ), believed the name should be changed back to Chemeketa.

Different pundits would attribute different meanings to " the Bush Doctrine ", as it came to describe other elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate ; a policy of spreading democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating terrorism ; and a willingness to unilaterally pursue U. S. military interests.

In a series of speeches in late 2001 and 2002, Bush expanded on his view of American foreign policy and global intervention, declaring that the United States should actively support democratic governments around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the threat of terrorism, and that the United States had the right to act unilaterally in its own security interests, without the approval of international bodies such as the United Nations.

; 1945: Vannevar Bush — head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, intimately connected with the Manhattan Project, and personal acquaintance of the President — was asked by President Roosevelt in 1944 to write a report on what should be done in the postwar to further foster government commitment to science and technology.

Some US politicians were disappointed by this move, believing Bush should have pressed on to Baghdad and removed Hussein from power ; there is little doubt that coalition forces could have accomplished this if they had desired.

During her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, Barbara Bush stated that abortion and homosexuality are personal matters and argued that the Republican Party platform should not take a stand on it, saying that " The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, platforms and conventions.

On January 23, 2007, President Bush suggested in his State of the Union speech that Congress should approve expansion of the current reserve capacity to twice its current level.

Wyden urged President George W. Bush to sign it, stating that " I see no reason why embryonic stem-cell research should be treated any differently than other research " in terms of federal grant funding.

Whitman decided that President Bush should have an EPA administrator willing to defend the new rule in court, which she could not bring herself to do.

In November 2002, U. S. President George W. Bush, visiting Europe for a NATO summit, declared that " should Iraqi President Saddam Hussein choose not to disarm, the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm him.

" He added that " the investigation should focus rather on what happened afterwards in the Bush administration.

A. C. Swinburne placed it with " Ode on a Grecian Urn " as " the nearest to absolute perfection " of Keats's odes ; Aileen Ward declared it " Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem "; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is " flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm "; Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that " To Autumn " is " the only perfect poem that Keats ever wrote – and if this should seem to take from him some measure of credit for his extraordinary enrichment of the English poetic tradition, I would quickly add that I am thinking of absolute perfection in whole poems, in which every part is wholly relevant to and consistent in effect with every other part.

* Akil Akilov, the prime minister of Tajikistan, said that his nation was not yet prepared to guarantee the United States air space should the Bush administration decide to launch retaliatory strikes against suspected terrorist bases in Afghanistan.

* September 25-During a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, when a reporter asked if the United States should help Afghan people liberate themselves from Taliban rule, president George W. Bush said, " We're not into nation-building ; we're focused on justice.

In April 2003, following warnings by the Bush administration to the government of Syria, Eagleburger condemned the possibility of military action in Syria or Iran, saying that public opinion would not support such a move and that " If President Bush were to try it now, even I would feel he should be skinned alive.

CBSSports. com producer J. Darin Darst opined that, " He ( Bush ) should never have been pressured to return the award.

On January 22, 2001, President George W. Bush reinstated the policy by executive order, stating, " It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad.

" And the US can argue over-do it ( sic ) and Bush should have put a different window dressing – there still needs someone willing to pull the trigger.

The ruling reflects the culmination of the conservatives ' central message on education that “ race should be ignored, inequalities should be blamed on individuals and schools, and existing civil rights remedies should be dismantled .” In 2001 Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act ( NCLB ) which was promptly signed by President George W. Bush.

O ' Neill's private feuds with Bush's tax cut policies and his push to further investigate alleged al-Qaeda funding from some American-allied countries, as well as his objection to the invasion of Iraq in the name of the war on terror — that he considered as nothing but a simple excuse for a war decided long before by neoconservative elements of the first Bush Administration — led to him being fired in 2002 and replaced with John W. Snow.

On September 20, 2007, The Washington Post stated: " Democrats blamed the group Moveon. org for giving moderate Republicans a ready excuse for staying with Bush and for giving Bush and his supporters a way to divert attention away from the war.

They point to the Project for the New American Century as proof that Bush was merely using the atrocities as an excuse to put the Imperialist plans of the neoconservatives in to action.

On the Iraq War, Cafferty stated, " The Bush administration used 9 / 11 as an excuse to start the war in Iraq.