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...Obama is hardly the first American President to declare war on the country's foreign oil habit - President George W. Bush himself famously said that America was "addicted to oil." And it won't be easy for the U.S. auto industry, already on life support, to shift quickly to more fuel-efficient models after years of resisting them. But the very fact that Obama chose to tackle fuel economy at the start of his Administration gives greens hope. "President Obama has done more in one week to reduce oil dependence and fight global warming than President Bush did in eight...
...models are not even close in suggesting Kyoto was the right approach." - former President George W. Bush's economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, dismissing Stern's work after Bush rejected the Kyoto Protocol (USA Today, June...
...signed by Obama now requires that interrogations of anyone in U.S. custody follow what's known as the Army Field Manual. The 384-page book lays out 19 interrogation techniques permitted by law and prohibits nine categories of others, including waterboarding, used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bush Administration, as well as forcing prisoners to be naked, as happened in the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal. The Army Field Manual itself is specific; it includes precise instructions on the steps U.S. interrogators are to follow when trying to get information out of detainees, right down to how to establish...
...latest U.S. nuclear showdown doesn't involve a foreign enemy. Instead it pits President Barack Obama against his Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, and concerns the question of whether America needs a new generation of nuclear warheads. While serving under former President George W. Bush, Gates had repeatedly called for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program to be put into operation, because the nation's current nukes - mostly produced in the 1970s and '80s - are growing so old that their destructive power may be in question...
...Photographic Farewell to Bush...