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George W Bush Jnr
* United States President [Republican] 2000 -
* Governor of Texas

PEOPLE
	George Bush Snr	Father, former President of the U.S.
	Dick Cheney	U.S. Vice President 2000-
	Richard Perle	Former Chair of the Defence Policy Board (until March 2003)
	Paul Wolfowitz
COMMENTATORS
	Don Russell	" President Bush correctly read that September 11 gave him a major lift in power. There was a consensus behind his goal of engineering a regime change in Afghanistan by force and to destroy Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is now using the increase in his power to pursue what is essentially a discretionary war to bring about regime change in Iraq..." Don Russell, former Australian ambassador to the U.S., 4Corners, March 10, 2003
ISSUES
	the decision	"Instead, the "decision," if that is the right word, emerged piecemeal early last summer from what had become a war cabinet of two -- Bush and Vice President Cheney. A few officials outside the White House spotted the direction that Bush and Cheney were taking in July and went to work on the best ways to conduct a campaign that they understood was coming absent a miracle." Seattle PI March 21, 2003
	the decision	"But Bush seems to have needed little persuasion or squeezing by Rumsfeld or by Cheney, who took part in the 1991 decision to let Saddam survive and who is known to believe that this is a rare chance in public life to correct a serious mistake." Seattle PI March 21, 2003
	iraq a nuclear threat?	Bamford cited a recent address by President Bush that cited documents, which allegedly proved Iraq was continuing to pursue a nuclear program, that were later shown to be forgeries. "It is absurd that the president of the United States mentioned in a speech before the world information from phony documents and no one got fired. That alone has offended intelligence professionals throughout the services." James Bamford in UPI March 19, 2003
	international law	Bush signaled that he did not want to waste time in debating the nuances of international law. "It is not a question of authority, it is a question of will," he told the nation. AP, March 22, 2003

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