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George W. Bush "turned tail" from the Afghan war to invade Iraq, leaving President Barack Obama a worsening war he must now try to turn around, a senior Democratic White House ally said Tuesday.
With echoes of George W. Bush's post-9/11 call to arms, President Barack Obama worked diligently Tuesday night to make his wartime address sound like an endgame rather than what it was — a striking escalation of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year was attacked by a shoe-thrower in Paris.
Barack Obama may be the one president of the television age who can make a star turn at West Point look like a graduate seminar at Yale.
President Barack Obama largely bypassed his usual appeals to American hopes and values Tuesday night in a speech in which he pleaded for resolution and patience for a final, pragmatic push to set Afghanistan on a less threatening path.
An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday.
In June 2002 George W. Bush delivered a speech at West Point military academy that came to define his presidency. With the Afghan war still in the backdrop, President Barack Obama Tuesday follows in his footsteps.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.
We'll be offering live updates as we follow President Obama's speech tonight.
A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.
The president used language intended to appeal to different parts of the political spectrum and persuade them to come together to see if his strategy works.
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U.S. Rep. John Tanner, a Tennessee Democrat and co-founder of the conservative Blue Dog coalition, announced Tuesday he will retire next year after 11 terms in Congress.
Six months after saying he doubted that "piling on more and more troops" was the road to success in Afghanistan, and then warning his commanders not to ask for more, President Obama has given Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal nearly all the troops that he wanted.
After an unbeaten Utah was sent to the Sugar Bowl last season while Florida and Oklahoma played for the championship, Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson spent much of the offseason lobbying for an eight-team playoff that would use existing BCS games. As he continues his battle, Bowl Championshipship Series officials have retooled for an offensive.
President Obama's long-awaited decision on the course ahead in Afghanistan provoked a topsy-turvy world on Capitol Hill.
The attention-hungry couple that crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner admitted to a friendly Pentagon official that they went without a confirmed invitation — just in case they got approved at the last minute.
Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief. He promised an impatient public he would begin bringing units home in 18 months.
An Arabic-speaking man on Tuesday hurled a shoe at the Iraqi journalist who one year earlier had thrown shoes at former US president George W. Bush.
After months of review, President Obama has made a decision that will not please the base of his party. The majority of Democrats in Congress are opposed to expanding or prolonging the war in Afghanistan. Many Americans share their concern.
President Obama lays out the strategy for the war in Afghanistan that was sparked by the Sept. 11 attacks.
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