George Bush

Sushi, Pacific lobster … cheeseburgers: Japanese food fit for a president
Joe Biden’s hosts have treated him to Tokyo’s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn’t always gone to plan
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
23, May, 2022 @1:50 PM

The audience chuckled at George W Bush’s Iraq-Ukraine gaffe. I’m not laughing | Arwa Mahdawi
I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the depravity and horror of the former president’s 2003 invasion of Iraq
Arwa Mahdawi
21, May, 2022 @1:32 PM

George W Bush accidentally admits Iraq war was ‘unjustified and brutal’ in gaffe
Former president makes slip when speaking at his presidential library in Dallas on Wednesday
Julian Borger in Washington
19, May, 2022 @3:30 PM

Luke Heggie: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The comedian and self-described ‘laggard’ shares what cracks him up online – including many long-forgotten morsels of Australian history
Luke Heggie
09, Mar, 2022 @4:30 PM

Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W Bush review – Guantánamo drama played for laughs
The true story of a Turkish-German mother’s fight to release her son from the notorious US detention camp gets an oddly pitched telling from director Andreas Dresen
Peter Bradshaw
13, Feb, 2022 @4:19 PM

Colin Powell obituary
Former US secretary of state and highly decorated army officer who made the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Harold Jackson
18, Oct, 2021 @5:17 PM

Sir John Chilcot obituary
Civil servant who chaired the Iraq war inquiry and gave a damning verdict on Tony Blair
David Hencke
05, Oct, 2021 @4:31 PM

Liz Cheney fires back at Trump and says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage
Congresswoman tweets response to bizarre insult before telling CBS how she plans to fight Trumpists in re-election battle
Martin Pengelly in New York
27, Sep, 2021 @11:23 AM

Lives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of 9/11
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financial
Simon Tisdall
12, Sep, 2021 @6:30 AM

Twenty years on from 9/11, is US democracy working?
From 9/11 to the storming of the Capitol, a new book by Biden biographer Evan Osnos covers a tumultuous period of US history. He talks to David Smith about Trump, Afghanistan and the beginning of a new era
David Smith in Washington
11, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM

Dangerous outsiders and exceptional citizens: being Muslim American since 9/11
For two decades, we have been saddled with a double image in service of the ‘war on terror’
Moustafa Bayoumi
10, Sep, 2021 @4:00 AM

The Afghanistan Papers review: superb exposé of a war built on lies
Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the war
Julian Borger
05, Sep, 2021 @6:00 AM
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