No such criticism attended the Bush administration's decision to turn over to Bob Woodward the highly classified notes from "50 National Security Council and other meetings" that became the basis for Woodward's hagiographic book, "Bush at War, " about the campaign to overthrow the Taliban during the fall of 2001.
But he never attracted the hostility that has fastened on Mr Bush, at least since the Iraq war.
President Bush spent today conducting a war council at Camp David evaluating progress or the lack of it in Iraq.
President Bush told us that we were now at war, but also that we would have to make no personal sacrifices.
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Bush's doctrine of war and peace was aimed at preventing just such a reenactment of history.
His support for President George Bush's "war on terror" earned him unpopularity at home.
At a White House news conference, President Bush conceded that the war had become a major issue in this year's midterm congressional elections.
Gregory Spear of The Spear Report also believes the extensive media coverage of U.S. diplomacy at the United Nations and the Bush administration's buildup for war might limit any shock to stocks once the bombs start dropping on Baghdad and Basra.
At the height of the Iraq War in 2006, President George Bush signed a law making it a crime for anyone to wear military medals that they had not earned.
The right, knowing that Bush would have trouble winning on his own record, did a magnificent job at turning a war hero into a flip-flopping fraud.
In 2003, then-French President Jacques Chirac opposed Mr. Bush's drive to war in Iraq, as did Mr. Obama, who at the time was a state senator from Illinois just beginning a long-shot U.S. Senate campaign.
Both Mr Cheney and Mr Bush himself have said they welcome fair criticism of the war, but they draw the line at being called liars.
One Republican congressional aide who received the e-mails this week expressed surprise that a lobbying firm with such close ties to the White House would attack al-Maliki at such a pivotal time on the debate over the war, just weeks before Bush provides a progress report to the nation.
In America I did two things, I obviously talked about the war and the difficulties and spoke to President Bush, but the second thing I did was I looked at the Republican Party.
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