We reject "The Decider", "The Commander Guy", and whatever else this criminal enterprise names its arrogant, yet ignorant little man of tiny intellect that this GOP calls its leader, along with his war mongering Vice President.
http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/119418.html">White House rejected warnings on Iraq WarBy JONATHAN S. LANDAY
May 26, 2007
WASHINGTON --
U.S. intelligence agencies warned the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq that ousting Saddam Hussein would create a ''significant risk'' of sectarian strife, encourage al Qaeda attacks and open the way for Iranian interference.
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday released declassified prewar intelligence reports and summaries of others that cautioned that establishing democracy in Iraq would be ''long, difficult and probably turbulent'' and said that while most Iraqis would welcome elections, the country's ethnic and religious leaders would be unwilling to share power.
Nevertheless, President Bush, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top aides decided not to deploy the major occupation that force military planners had recommended, planned to reduce U.S. troops rapidly after the invasion and believed that ousting Saddam would ignite a democratic revolution across the Middle East.
The administration also instituted a massive purge of members of Saddam's Baath Party and disbanded the Iraqi army -- moves that helped spark the country's Sunni Muslim insurgency -- even though the newly declassified reports had recommended against doing so.
The committee released two newly declassified January 2003 analyses by the National Intelligence Council -- whose work reflects the consensus of the nation's intelligence agencies -- and summaries of reports by individual agencies as part of a four-year investigation into the administration's use of prewar intelligence on Iraq. .....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_sc/g8_climate_change">Activists: U.S. to reject climate dealBy DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer 55 minutes ago
May 26, 2007
LONDON - The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace.
The White House on Saturday declined to confirm the comments were from U.S. officials, but said discussions continued about what the G-8 leaders will say. ......
Bush Threatens Veto of Gas Gouging BillBy William L. Watts
May 24, 2007
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- President Bush is likely to veto legislation that would create hefty fines and criminal penalties for gasoline price-gouging, the White House said Wednesday.
The threat came as the House prepared to vote on a Democratic plan aimed at battling rising gasoline prices by requiring the Federal Trade Commission to define "price gouging." The bill would create fines and criminal penalties, including jail time, for industry executives found guilty of gouging.
The White House, in a formal statement of administration policy, said the legislation amounted to price controls that would hinder oil companies and retailers from responding to market signals, potentially worsening fuel shortages.
"Gasoline price controls are an old -- and failed -- policy choice that will exacerbate shortages and increase fuel hoarding after natural disasters, denying fuel to people when they most need it," the White House said, adding that Bush's senior advisers would recommend a veto of the House bill or any similar legislation that makes it to his desk. .....
Bush likely to reject study group call for withdrawal from IraqSuzanne Goldenberg
December 16, 2007
The White House was yesterday considering an even deeper military commitment in Iraq, with a short-term deployment of 20,000 extra forces to Baghdad, a day after the US army chief warned that the force could break under the strain of the war.
Meanwhile, the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, ruled out a diplomatic overture to Syria and Iran to enlist their support in stemming the chaos in Iraq.
The two developments reinforce reports that the White House is leaning towards a broad rejection of the recommendations from the Iraq Study Group for a withdrawal of US combat forces by early 2008, and for the opening of talks with Tehran and Damascus.
Although George Bush has yet to reveal his new strategy for the war, deferring that announcement to the New Year, Ms Rice indicated that the administration's highly visible review of its policies in Iraq is unlikely to lead to major changes. .....
Bush rejects deal on Iraq timetableBy Anne Flaherty
05/18/2007
Washington - The White House and Congress failed to strike a deal today after exchanging competing offers on an Iraq war spending bill that Democrats said should set a date for U.S. troops to leave.
"Timelines for withdrawal are just not the right way to go, and that cannot be the basis for funding our troops," said Joshua Bolten, White House chief of staff, after a nearly 90-minute meeting on Capitol Hill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said they offered to grant Bush the authority to waive the deadlines. They said they also suggested that they would drop billions of dollars in proposed domestic spending Bush opposed, in exchange for his acceptance of identifying a withdrawal date. .....
Bush rejects Finnish president's meeting request -HSNewsRoom Finland
15.5.2007
The US this week rejected Finland's proposal for a meeting between presidents George Bush and Tarja Halonen, Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat reported on its website on Tuesday.
At the same time, a top-level meeting was organised for Fredrik Reinfeldt, the prime minister of Sweden. Mr Reinfeldt is to meet President Bush on Tuesday.
The White House appealed to busy schedules when rejecting the Finnish proposal. .....
White House counselor rejects Tenet's view that Bush rushed to warAssociated Press
April 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - A senior White House counselor on Friday dismissed former CIA Director George Tenet's portrait of a Bush administration that rushed to war in Iraq without serious debate. "The president did wrestle with those very serious questions," Dan Bartlett said. ....
Cheney Rejects Tenet's Account of Run-Up to WarBy Peter Baker
May 11, 2007
Vice President Cheney yesterday rejected former CIA director George J. Tenet's assertion that the Bush administration did not engage in serious debate before invading Iraq in 2003, escalating a public conflict over what happened during the run-up to the war. .....
White House rejects ‘high cost’ climate scenariosReuters, via
Gulf TimesMay 5, 2007
WASHINGTON: The White House rejected yesterday what it called “high cost” scenarios to tackle global warming that were spelled out in the latest report by a UN panel on climate change.
“There are measures (for reducing greenhouse gas emissions) that come currently at an extremely high cost because of the lack of available technology,” said James Connaughton, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
These expensive scenarios, he said, would bring cuts in world gross domestic product of as much as 3%.
“Well, that would of course cause global recession, so that is something that we probably want to avoid,” Connaughton said in a telephone briefing after the release in Bangkok of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
One example of a currently prohibitively expensive fix would be to produce power from coal with no emissions, he said. .....
US Rejects Lebanese Vote in PresidencyAlalam News
May 16, 2007
BEIRUT, May 16--US envoy David Welch urged Lebanon on Wednesday to choose a new president in accordance with the constitution, he said "must be independent of outside interference". ......
Wolfowitz rejects World Bank ethics rulingReuters, via CNN
May 15 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A World Bank committee found bank President Paul Wolfowitz violated ethics rules in his handling of a promotion and generous pay rise for his girlfriend and that his involvement represented a conflict of interest.
Wolfowitz rejected the critical report Monday, and the United States showed no sign of yielding in its steadfast support for the former U.S. deputy defense secretary, saying the findings were no grounds to dismiss him.
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In documents released late Monday, Wolfowitz called the findings "unbalanced and flawed" and argued that the panel had omitted statements and documents that support his position.
The panel said Wolfowitz believes the blame lies with others and not with him.
It said he did not accept the bank's policy on conflict of interest and tried to bypass rules that he believed did not apply to him.
"The ad hoc group concludes that in actuality, Mr Wolfowitz from the outset cast himself in opposition to the established rules of the institution," it found.
"He did not accept the bank's policy on conflict of interest, so he sought to negotiate for himself a resolution different from that which would have applied to the staff he was selected to head." .....
Rice rejects potential Iraq compromiseWashington PostApril 29, 2007
With President Bush prepared to veto this week an Iraq war spending bill that sets a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shot down a potential compromise Democrats had been floating that would link U.S. funding or troop levels to benchmarks for the Iraqi government.
"The problem is that if you try and make consequences about these benchmarks, you're tying the hands of General Petraeus and the hands of Ambassador Crocker," Rice said on ABC's "This Week." "We shouldn't tie our own hands in using the tools that we have to help the Iraqis along with national reconciliation." ....
Bush rejects German greenhouse planEarth Times
May 26, 2007
WASHINGTON, May 26 The Bush administration has rebuffed Germany's plan for deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions, it was reported Saturday.
The rejection sets the stage for a summit pitting President Bush against his European allies at June's meeting of the world's richest countries, called the Group of Eight, or G8, The New York Times reported.
The White House complained the German proposal "crosses multiple red lines in terms of what we simply cannot agree to." ......
Bush Rejects Restrictions on Iraq OperationsBy David McKeeby
March 28, 2007
....“I believe strongly in the universality of liberty,” Bush said in a March 28 speech to a trade group in Washington. “I believe people want to be free, and if given a chance, they will take the risks necessary to be free.”
As U.S. troops continue deploying to the region to help Iraqi security forces carry out a new security operation to bring violence under control, Bush criticized members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for adding provisions to an emergency spending bill that would require most U.S. forces to leave Iraq in 2008. Bush has threatened to veto any congressional funding bill that includes withdrawal deadlines. ....
White House rejects Iran debateThe AustralianAugust 30, 2006
THE White House today rejected outright an offer from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hold a televised debate with US President George W. Bush...Mr Ahmadinejad overnight offered Mr Bush a live television debate as he shrugged off the threat of sanctions ahead of a looming UN deadline for Iran to halt sensitive atomic work.
"I suggest we talk with Mr Bush, the president of the United States, in a live television debate about world issues and ways out of these standoffs. We would voice our opinions and they would too," he told a news conference.
The debate "should be uncensored, above all for the American public," said Mr Ahmadinejad" ....
White House rejects Putin criticism - "surprised and disappointed"Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Feb 11, 2007
Washington - The White House rejected Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin's criticism of United States policy in a speech to the international security conference in the German city of Munich.
'We are surprised and disappointed with President Putin's comments. His accusations are wrong,' spokesman Gordon Johndroe was quoted in US media reports as saying.
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Putin said Saturday in Munich that Moscow felt threatened by the US and he warned of a new arms race.
Putin also accused US President George W Bush of making the world less secure. .....
Bush vetoes Iraq war supplemental, rejects deadlineArabic News
5/1/2007
US President George W. Bush rejected a Congressional bill with military spending for Iraq but which also set a deadline for US troops in Iraq.
Bush tonight said in a speech: Twelve weeks ago, I asked the Congress to pass an emergency war spending bill that would provide our brave men and women in uniform with the funds and flexibility they need.
Instead, members of the House and the Senate passed a bill that substitutes the opinions of politicians for the judgment of our military commanders. So a few minutes ago, I vetoed this bill. .....
Bush Rejects Talk of Waning InfluenceBy Jim VandeHei
June 1, 2005 President Bush dismissed yesterday suggestions that his influence is waning less than six months into his second term, blaming partisanship and timidity in Congress for the lack of action on his plans to bring change to the United Nations, restructure Social Security and enact a new energy policy this year.
"I don't worry about anything here in Washington, D.C.," Bush said during a news conference in the White House's Rose Garden. "I feel comfortable in my role as the president, and my role . . . is to push for reform." With Democrats and Republicans alike questioning the clout of a president whose approval ratings have sunk to new lows, Bush said it is Congress that must prove it is "capable of getting anything done."
Bush pressured lawmakers to approve John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, pass a lean federal budget, expand trade with Central America and approve new incentives for energy production and conservation.
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In what has become a monthly session with reporters, Bush called "absurd" a human rights report condemning the U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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He dismissed criticism of his diplomatic overtures to Iran and North Korea, and gently chided the government of Uzbekistan, an ally in the war on terrorism, for its violent crackdown on opposition groups. "We expect all our friends, as well as those who aren't our friends, to honor human rights and protect minority rights," the president said.
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After a quick start to his second term, including the enactment of laws making it harder for people to file class-action lawsuits and for bankruptcy, Bush has run into a more assertive Congress. Democrats are blocking Bolton, as well as at least two of the president's nominees to federal courts of appeals, while some Republicans are balking at Bush's demand for limits on stem cell research and for a broad restructuring of the Social Security system.
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"It's just like water cutting through a rock," Bush said. "It's just a matter of time. We're just going to keep working and working and working."
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Bush said he will consult with the Senate before deciding who to appoint to the Supreme Court. "I told the American people I would find people of a certain temperament that would serve on the bench, and I intend to," he said.
Poll: Public Rejects Iraq Funding VetoPost ChronicleMay 8, 2007
A majority of Americans oppose President George W. Bush's veto of a war funding bill that called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq next year, a new poll found. ...
We The People unequivocally REJECT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
We demand that Congress move to impeach and subsequently convict these murderers, thieves and liars, as they are systematically destroying the United States of America.
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