george w. bush presidency it interferes a lot in other parts of the world on the basis of that judgment in a very indiscreet way and yet that is how democracy seen isn't it nowadays in this to be evangelical way for george w. bush self said that democracy was the best weapon in fighting terrorism what did you think when he said yes but i thought he was a fool. when you i thought he was a fool and the people behind him were knaves if you see what i mean i mean that claim was made in defense of a very forward military and political policy on the united states of the united states in various parts of the world and that policy has not proved at all wise and it was inherently objectionable in some respects well known decent motives behind the tool but there were a lot of not very decent motives behind it and it was a very stupid policy what has the removal of dictatorial regimes in basic iraq and afghanistan to force us about the process of democratization the process of democratization you could sa

. >> rose: it's a kinder gentler george w. bush foreign policy? >> well, it's a kinder gentler george w. bush foreign policy without trade policy which actually puts us in a whole. there aren't major deviations from where mr. bush was going. the bush surge in iraq i think led us to a position where the president would announce last week in atlanta that we're going to end our combat mission. i think mr. bush was active in pakistan and pakistan. so in the main you see a continuation of george bush's policies. >> you said to me in a previous conversation the thing you hear-- this was after you were out of power-- people would talk about america's competency. >> well, i think i told you about the story about in the wake of the middle east during cat "there was real questions about america's competency. and in the wake of the deep disaster, all of our citizens, ourselves, were talking about whether we were competent, whether government should accomplish these lofty and weighty issues. so i think there is a real question of competency in the minds of ou

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w. bush it is highly unlikely that the president of the united states would sit down for face to face with the president of iran especially with cameras surrounding them for a televised debate but what is so surprising about it is the fact that it continues to make news all the u.s. mainstream media outlets have given up this story all the very popular blogs on the internet have taken this story it's made headlines and what it really does prove is that the president of iran continues to be something of a mastermind of u.s. media look at the realities that are taking place right now we've seen at the u.n. as you mentioned four rounds of sanctions against iran the most recent ones to take place in the early june after that the united states and the european union passed unilateral sanctions additional by the actual sanctions and embargo against iran and iran has not changed its course it is continuing to enrich uranium which it says is being done for peaceful purposes when i did sit down w

in 2002, the first off year election for george w. bush, house republicans picked up eight seats. in the senate they picked up two seats. the repudiation over obama is devastating in the millennium. and it represents an enormous push back against a failed economic policy and i beg to differ, even the jobs bill, it's a public sector employee bailout. it's $26 billion we don't have. the american people did not want it to happen. >> did you? >> yes. >> when you say this repudiation of president obama, what repudiation? nothing has happened yet. the election is not until november. >> thank you. >> the most precipitous drop in a presidential approval for a first-term president you have ever seen. 41%. and that is going to continue because barack obama has lost the confidence of the american people. he's in over his head. >> let me ask you whether or not he and the democrats can gain some of that confidence back with things like this. today, a $600 million border security bill passed. as i mentioned, that happened in the past. they will come to conference committee and work this bill ou

george w. bush presidency it interferes a lot in other parts of the world on the basis of that judgment in a very indiscreet way and yet i see it is how democracy seen isn't it nowadays in this to be evangelical way for george w. bush self said that democracy was the best weapon in fighting terrorism what did you think when he said yes but i thought he was a fool. when you thought he was a fool and the people behind him were knaves if you see what i mean i mean that claim was made in defense of a very forward military and political policy on the united states of the united states in various parts of the world and that policy has not proved at all why and it was inherently objectionable in some respects well known decent motives behind the tool but there were a lot of not very decent motives behind it and it was a very stupid policy what has the removal of dictatorial regimes in basic iraq and afghanistan to force us about the process of democratization the process of democratization you could s

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both reading that help george w. bush taking us presidential see for stay with us here on our team. too much brighter than. me from. t.v. dot com. live . he's. wrapping up the week's top stories here on r t where it's three thirty in the morning in moscow these are our headlines fire posing in a raging blaze are spreading across russia killing dozens are reading thousands are leaving people in cities struggling to breathe in the midst of toxic smoke. so to remember the hundreds killed in war with georgia two years after simply seashell their. public meeting its capital all but raised to the ground. and japan sixty five years and said atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima for the first time since the deadly event washington sends an envoy to the memorial service but still offers no apology. up next murder spies in voting lives the story of a man who was commissioned to create voting software that many believe helped george w. bush to winning the election in two thousand and four stay with us here on our team in fact in the states that had electronic voting the numbers didn't match at

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you know, you should know that the bin laden family funded george w. bush's first oil endeavor. you should know that, and he somehow makes that funny. i don't know how he does it. i do grapple with that. i don't always make it amusing. but i think it's every person's responsibility when they have a microphone and the ear of so many people to--yes, you're a comic; make them laugh. that's what they paid their money to see. but also edify in some way. don't keep lowering the bar culturally. the bar is low enough in our--you know, it's howard stern low. it's very low. and so i don't want to participate in that, in the de-intellectualization of our citizenry, you know? the book you wrote with ben stiller, feel this book, which is largely kind of a parody of self-help books, also had nuggets like this: is that--it also kind of drives your career, doesn't it? you're not doing the predictable. well, see, here's the thing, though. thank you for saying that i'm not doing something predictable, because i take it as a compliment, but true radicals probably see me as the biggest, like, sello

w. bush the republican president saying that islam is first and foremost a religion of peace and how do they go from there to now where you have politicians using the same people are you know are loving it they're people are supporting them for using this kind of rhetoric i think mainly because of cheap partisan point that's what's happening right now for eight years we had president bush in the white house there was some adult supervision of the french here he was reminding people that would help the war on terror and not on the whole faith not on one point. bush an adult i just like ok and they were keeping basically these french people in check but unfortunately now that he's gone and there is some partisan points to be made in attacking obama on anything some now are trying to attack him on this rather than attacking the president and debating him on the merits they're attacking him on these silly points and unfortunately this this has gained some traction and now it's starting to sp

w. bush and of course washington has rejected the offer that has come from the iranian president it is highly unlikely that the president of the united states would sit down for face to face with the president of iran especially with cameras surrounding them for a televised debate but what is so surprising about it is the fact that it continues to make news all the u.s. mainstream media outlets have picked up this story all the very popular blogs on the internet have taken this story it's made headlines and what it really does prove is that the president of iran continues to be something of a mastermind of u.s. media look at the realities that are taking place right now we've seen at the u.n. as you mentioned past four rounds of sanctions against iran the most recent ones to take place in the early june after that the united states and the european union passed unilateral sanctions additional financial sanctions and embargo against iran and iran has not changed its course it is continuin

and george w. bush, when he was president, and barack obama now that he is president, both have tried to make as clear as possible that our war against terrorism is not a war against islam. i think there are people in the country who don't buy that, who are suspicious of islam specifically, not just suspicious of the new. >> brown: well, ross-- >> i mean, i think that's absolutely true. i think that it is-- it's a combination of the fact that islam is new seeming and alien seeming and so on, and, obviously, the particular association of this spot with islamist terrorism. >> brown: right, but you're suggesting and you're-- the brunt of your argument leads you to believe, i guess, that this should be moved to a different site. >> i think it's a case where the location of the project is defeating the purpose of the project, right. when this project was announced, it was announced as a kind of outreach, a kind of bridge-building effort between muslim americans and the very americans who are most likely

bush george bush sr jr wanted to as it were to take revenge on saddam hussein for allegedly trying to kill his father and above all for surviving the first gulf war in the one nine hundred ninety nine to ninety one it was that simple it was that that simple level that i believe in human revenge that george bush jr wanted to wage here and that's why he was determined to overthrow saddam it's a shame that so many people had to die for that revenge to be able to about now do you think that any top british or u.s. government figures will ever be held accountable for what many consider legal invasion we do know that former british prime minister tony blair faced an inquiry into the war this year in london. no because the. point about these tribunals is that they depend on who controls them they'll only be properly be a prosecution if there is some sort of revolution and that's not going to happen certainly not in britain because the opposition our government supported the war in any case blair himself in britain has succeeded in keeping the debate on the question on the issue of weapons of

bush -- george herbert walker bush. excuse me. republicans are very, very concerned properly that this debt commission wushed inpushed lame duck after the elections is a vehicle to raise taxes, which is aprofoundly wrong idea. >> this is why todd sees this so striking. the american people hear the insider talk about what these guys are doing, they just want answers. if you're within a job or taken a job where you're making less, you just want leadership. my party happens to be in the majority, and they will probably end up having to make a stronger defense than republicans, but you guys have an obligation and burden to lead as well. say the president hasn't reached out to republicans is not true. we took the public option out of the health care bill in order to win republican support. that didn't go very well. on energy we've taken a cap and trade to win republican support, but the republicans said they didn't want it in there. we all agree to the health insurance crisis. with regard to the energy reform, democrats have taken out

[ as george w. bush ] "let's see here, are you in china?" "no, mr. president, i'm right here talking to you." [ laughter ] "you sure? are they speaking spanish where you are?" "i don't know what you're talking about. sorry, mr. president." "inception" came in number one at the box office this weekend, you guys. it's made -- [ cheers and applause ] yes. it's made $193 million so far. yeah. the only thing it didn't make was sense. [ laughter ] "is he dreaming? did he dream that?" "no, man, no. he was dreaming, but you --" i'm sure you heard about this. lindsay lohan was released from jail earlier this morning and immediately checked into rehab. yep. it happened so fast they barely had time to hang up the "welcome back" banner out front. [ laughter ] "we didn't know it would be this soon." i'm in a good mood, you guys, tonight. i'm very excited. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ i can't even believe it. [ laughter ] no, you know why i'm excited? it's the discovery channel's 23rd annual shark week. [ cheers and applause ] that's right, or as they call it on th

i once asked george w. bush onboard air force one, i said mr. president if this happened in nantucket or new york or chicago, he interrupted me and said you can call me anything you want, but don't call me a racist. that was his response to that. what do you think was at work here? >> i don't have the expertise to be able to say. when i watched your report, i had never before seen the helicopters going over the convention center from day one. and at the superdome. they have two hilo pads. the convention center has an empty lot. you can see those people as president of the united states or browni or whoever you are. you can't lift in water and mris? it didn't make any sense. >> as you look around your beloved city these days, it's interesting to hear the people answer the question, how is new orleans do, how is recovery doing? >> i'll give you two words that i think is our hope it's called mitch landrieu. i think he's doing a terrific job. we have a police chief with a ph.d. and tons of young people, entrepreneurs coming in here. i think we're on

it just a few weeks before the invasion, president george w. bush seemed not to realize that the muslims were divided into sunni and shi'a. donald rumsfeld was given a nine header page document carefully prepared by the state department on how to run iraq after the invasion. he dropped it straight into his waistband. -- donald rumsfeld was given a 900 page document on how to run the invasion and he promptly threw it away. donald rumsfeld abolished the iraqi army without consulting anyone else. terrible violence followed and people were being killed at a rate of a hundred today. things only started to change in 2008 when the american tactics improve radically and the civil war began to burn itself out. now, things feel very different. there is still around 10 killings a day but by the recent standards, that is a huge improvement. slowly this country is making a new life for itself. >> you are watching bbc world news. >the maximum authorities have arrested one of the country's most wanted drug traffickers. -- the mexican authorities have arrested

it was george w. bush who negotiated the status of forces agreement that all troops are out of the 2011. >> but if you talk to people they said it could be renegotiated. if the iraqi government wants to renegotiate that in the next year once they get the government set up in the next month the president should signal that we'd be open to that. we invested a lot in iraq. we won the war thanks to odierno and petraeus. odierno has the job of managing the drawdown to minimize damage done by drawing down 1800 tros in 18 months. we should win the peace. we have stake in iraq, reasonably democratic and stable. the rhetoric of the war is over to, it's now up to the iraqis is a mistake. i think president obama is responsible but he should not wash his hands of iraq. it's irresponsible. >> he's not washing his hands of it. there are 50,000 troops there. the big question as bill said is what happens in 2011, is the deal renegotiated? but he came in office and said he'd withdrawal troops and he should get credit

w.ncicap.org-- >> production assistants f "inside washington" is provided by albritton communications. ♪ >> we send a clear message to the washington insiders. >> of this week, fear and loathing of incumbents on the campaign trail. >> it ain't over yet. >> delousing housing numbers spell bad news for the obama white house. >> i have had a house that has been sitting parenti for a year- and-a-half. >> they square off on housing and the economy. >> 19 months of government asking to be reorganized. it hasn't worked. >> for eight years before we arrived in the west wing, mr. behner's party ran the economy into the ground. >> glen beck comes to the lincoln memorial for a rally to restore america's honor. >> hi, how are you? ♪ >> the incumbent republicans be aware -- nobody is seen as a sure thing. democrats are banking on the economic recovery and that is not happening. they could lose the house and senate. you also have a huge enthusiasm gap. 3000 more republicans have turned out what is

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. >>> and jenna bush tags along with her father, former president george w. bush, on a visit to earthquake-ravaged haiti. >>> and now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. have a good one.

he was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under former president george w. bush. meyers warns the stalled talks on the base could adversely affect many important issues. >> because there is so much focus on this one issue, it just saps the intellectual and physical energy out of people, the bureaus and the ministries. i'm sure adversaries are watching this, and they know the strength of the u.s./japan alliance, and that strength is weakened by the fact that we can't make our decision on futenma. >> japan and the u.s. agreed in 2006 to move the base within okinawa, but the project has made little progress. myers spoke about potential threats in asia. he says north korea is a hostile nation that has posed a greater risk in recent years with its development of nuclear weapons. he also referred to china's military buildup, but he said the most serious concern when it comes to china is cyberattacks against the united states. >>> japan's economy grew at an annualized rate of 0.4% in real terms during the second quarter. this is sharply lower than the 4.4% in first quart

president george w. bush sent 6000 soldiers there for two years back in 2006. seth stone, cbc news, new york. >>> tomorrow engineers at the gulf oil spill could take the final steps towards permanently closing the blownout well. they could launch a static kill as early as tomorrow night. the process involves shutting mud and cement into the blownout well. the move is intended to make it easier to take the next step that would permanently close that well. >>> one of the bay areas trashiest spots is a lot cleaner tonight. 100 volunteers cleaned up the coastline on strawberry beach in berkeley. they found everything from tires to small pieces of debris called micro trash which can be harmful to wildfire. >>> if you're out at the beach probably need a sweatshirt, sweater, jacket. >> you name it. it has been cool. >> ear muffs. >> i have seen people out there with ear muffs. really amazing this year. the cool weather continues in the bay area in spots. just not as warm at normal. today we had lots of sunshine but that patchy fog started to roll in late in the day an

w.ncicap.org-- >> seven years after the u.s.- led invasion of iraq, the last u.s. brigade has left the country. during the occupation an estimated 100,000 iraqis lost their lives. the u.s. state department has described the end as a historic moment and vowed that america's long-term commitment to iraq is unwavering. 6000 troops will remain to the end of next year, training their iraqi successors. >> the withdrew under the cover of darkness. there was no fanfare and no ceremony. but the soldiers are looking forward to going home. >> we are going home. we won. it is over. america. i love you. i love you. >> operation in rocky freedom claimed the lives of over 4400 soldiers and almost 110,000 iraqis. the country held free elections, a law and order are a long way off. as recently as tuesday, 58 were killed in an attack. the rocky politicians are divided about the withdrawal. -- iraqui politicians are divided about the withdrawal. >> we have to take control -- move from military to civilian

not one single difference that is discernible from george w. bush -- not one. what they are betting on is in asia. -- is amnesia. [laughter] they are betting that you forgot about eight years they were in charge of washington. the a are betting that you did not notice -- they are betting that you did not notice that the recession started under their watch, that the deficit started under their watch, and that they have been trying to oppose us every step of the way in solving these problems. remember, these are the folks who spent almost a decade driving the economy into a ditch. and now they are asking for the keys back. the car went into the ditch. we got into the mud. we are pushing and shoving. we are tired. we are sweaty. they are standing, watching. [laughter] you are not doing that fast enough. why don't you push a little harder? [applause] i think if you put your shoulder here, you would get a better grip. after all of our huffing and puffing, we finally get the car out of the ditch. we're back on level ground. what do they say? give us the keys back. yo

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president george w. bush sent 6000 soldiers there for two years back in 2006. seth stone, cbc news, new york. >>> so much concern is being raised by b.p.'s use of chemicals. there is a hearing scheduled to take place this week. >> reporter: b.p.'s point man on the oil crisis came to venice louisiana for a carefully choreographed p.r. event to meet workers and tour the gulf. but the ceo was hounded about questions about the company's use of dispersements? >> what effect do you think the chemicals on the marine life. >> reporter: they say the coastguard routinely agreed to b.p.'s request to use chemicals. >> some of the requests were accepted as they asked. sometimes they modified those. >> reporter: b.p. pumped 2 million gallons of chemicals into the water. it is a prospect that worries many fisherman about the effect on the wildlife. >> reporter: this man believes that oil was sunk into the oyster beds that he fishes. >> we won't be able to fish for a couple years. i have been doing this and i don't know how to do something else. >> reporter: b.p. says it is ge

. >>> former vice president george w. bush returns to haiti. he is checking on relief work in the earthquake-shattered country. >>> the search for two dangerous fugitives is now centered near glacier national park in montana. police say prison escapee john mccluskey and his cousin/fiancee casslyn welch consider themselves a modern day bonnie and clyde. >>> kellogg is opening a store dedicated to pop tarts. it offered 30 new pop tart treats and the first time kellogg's has focused a store on one product and have special chefs creating these new creations. one is a pop tart sushi. they roll it it in a fruit rollup. >> that is much more appetizen that i thought it would be. oh, man. >>> well, for some of you local news is coming up. >> for everyone else "america this morning" continues after this. without the pills. no pills, no pain. how can you get pain relief without taking pills around the clock? try thermacare heatwraps, for all day relief without pills. i was surprised, thermacare worked all day. you feel the heat. and it relaxes and unlocks

we begin with stories on former president george w. bush and it is in in "the washington post." the washington post is calling it blame game, the former president again this year in the mid year election. 202-737-0001 for republicans this is what the piece looks like in "the washington post" on the campaign trail, he is living quietly in dallas, far from washington's political news cycle. he has traveled to haiti and joined facebook. yet less than three months before this fall's vote it is almost as though he has never left politics. democrats have decided to blame any and all problems on former president bush and the republicans around the country rally against government spending even turninging on the ex-president. and even recently accusing the former president of runaway spending, called the bush blame game and from bloomberg's business week, back so soon, on the bush tax cuts. we'll have more in just a moment. and president obama spending the weekend in the florida gulf coast. this is the front page of the of the new york daily news released by the white house photographer

it was george w. bush. he spoke to the entire nation and the oval office, to all americans about the need for comprehensive reform. the term comprehensive reform comes from the bush years. tavis: i agree with that, but bush is no longer in office, john mccain is, and he stood where bush did but he has done a 180. >> that is what the media says. john mccain believes in a guest worker program. tavis: are you saying that you support -- i want to be clear -- are you saying that you support john mccain's position on immigration? this john mccain right now? you support his position on immigration? >> i believe he still believes in immigration reform and i would still vote for him. tavis: why? >> i don't support barack obama because he is pandering to latinos. tavis: he is pandering? >> mccain from the get go has been wanting to work on emigration. barack obama told latinos the first year of his administration he would work on immigration. he did not. then he said, i will propose my own plan and submitted by the e

w. bush was sitting in the white house for eight years i've been saying this about bush and clinton i've been saying this last twenty years but wow but the rest of the americans that are turning out are all these tea parties ok but this is a valid question and it's a good question and it's a real. phenomenon that exists and the uprising did start big time with brock obama there's no question that this uprising though was happening during the clinton and bush but not on the level that it was not at the level we see you know no question about it no question about it i did speaking tours before this but not at the pace i'm doing it now i mean i'm speaking two or three times a week all across america and i never have any time that we have a black president no i am not arsene that i have never seen now i've i've been there and i'm sure there are some races racism here in america i have never seen it at any of the fifty or sixty events i've been to the reason and i want you and everybody liste

ken mehlman, who was once the republican party chairman and president george w. bush's campaign manager, tells "the atlantic" magazine he came out publicly in part because he wants to be an advocate for same-sex marriage. >>> and the empire state building is on its way to face some competition just two blocks away. yesterday the new york city council voted in favor of plans for a nearly 1,200-foot tower about 200 feet shorter than the manhattan icon. it was passed despite rejections from the empire state building's owner, who says the tower would ruin the view of the landmark. >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,060 after gaining 19 points yesterday. the s&p added three points. the nasdaq rose 17. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, the nikkei jumped 61 points, but in hong kong, the hang seng lost 22. >>> bargain hunting investors helped markets bounce back yesterday, despite another blow to the economy. americans bought new homes at the slowest pace in nearly half a century last mon

. >> the creator plans to add caricatureof sarah palin, hillary clinton and george w. bush. >> about 2500 feet the temperatures are in the 70s right now. >> mike, thank you. and thanks

w. bush was sitting in the white house for eight years i've been saying this about bush and clinton i've been saying this last twenty years but what happened the rest of the americans that are turning out are all these tea parties ok but the it's a valid question and it's a good question and it's a real. phenomenon that exists and the uprising did start big time with brock obama there's no question that this uprising though was happening during the clinton and bush but not on the level that it was not at the level we see it you know no question about it no question about it i did speaking tours before this but not at the pace i'm doing it now i mean i'm speaking two or three times a week all across america and i never have been to that we have a black president no i am not arsene that i have never seen now i've i've been there and i'm sure there are some races racism here in america i have never seen it at any of the fifty or some odd sixty events i've been to the reason and i want you a

. >> but if you work for george w. bush who ballooned the deficit, is that a good credential? >> we keep hearing about daniels in the real circle. >> he's a friend of mine, but he -- >> ratings as governor are in the 70% positive. does that tell you something? >> he's a good governor. >> privatize roads and he's a great ideas. he is a good governor. he is short. >> let's settle the matter. exit question, time for april 2012. you got it? april 2012. who will be the republican presidential nominee? >> palin or romney. >> give me one or the other. >> palin. >> if she wins iowa and wins south carolina, good-bye and good luck. >> she's looking better now? >> she looks good all the time. >> there's a difference between getting a sliver of the electorate excited about you and appealing to 50.1%. >> who is your candidate? >> i would say romney. >> business background? >> and pawlenty as a possibility. >> because of the economy? was he successful? very. he's a multimillionaire. >> i don't think the republican party is going to go off the cliff with sarah palin. >> a dozen kids? beautif