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Bush Presidencies: Two Men Took Very Different Roads
2004
Overview
The senior Bush, who turned 80 yesterday, presided over one of the largest deficit reduction plans in American history; the junior Bush, who is 57, has overseen one of the fastest deficit increases. The senior Bush refused entreaties to remove Saddam Hussein from power because Iraq was a sovereign nation and he would lose the international coalition that backed the removal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait; the junior Bush invaded Iraq with only Britain as his major international partner. Given [Brent Scowcroft]'s very close relationship with the senior Bush, the piece was widely viewed as a tacit statement by President Bush's father against the war. Indeed, as the pair's book makes clear, the senior Bush viewed the Gulf War not just as the ouster of Iraqis from Kuwait, but also as a turning point in history in which it would be shown that international coalitions would work together to stop such invasions. It was a central element of what the senior Bush envisioned to be a new world order -- an element that some critics say has come undone as a result of the current war in Iraq. Mary Matalin, who played a major role in the senior Bush's reelection bid and is an adviser to President Bush's campaign, said the difference in foreign policy between the two Bushes stems from their views about the impact of stability in the Middle East. The senior Bush, Matalin said, wanted stability as the post-Cold War era began and didn't want to rattle the international coalition he assembled to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. President Bush, by contrast, \"does not want to go to stability, because the stability philosophy in that region has spawned all these terrorists, created these failed states.\" Thus, President Bush describes his prodemocracy policy for the Middle East as an effort to \"change the world,\" a more dramatic desire than his father had.
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