Mr Gove attacked Labour's record in office claiming the previous administration did not have "a care for prudency, economy or the next generation".

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Then, after former vice president Dick Cheney used a speech on October 22 to accuse the Obama administration of "dithering" on Afghanistan, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs responded by claiming that the Bush administration did not care about U.S. troops.

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Importantly, he does not cite any Bush administration official claiming such a link.

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The question now is whether this particular tax cut will have the positive economic benefit that the administration is claiming for it.

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On October 8th it sued the Italian government, claiming that it was allowing the administration of Parmalat under Mr Bondi to treat creditors unfairly.

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His administration has sued gun manufacturers, claiming they recklessly flood the market with cheap pistols and organized stings against out-of-state firearms dealers he claimed were fueling the city's illegal gun trade.

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Against all these grounds for rejecting the Chemical Weapons Convention, the administration and other proponents have been reduced to claiming that the treaty will establish an "international norm" against the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.

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