The Bush Administration: The Neoconservative Movement

The Iraq War, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, took place in 2003 and dragged on for almost nine years, until the withdrawal of US troops in December 2011. The invasion was justified by the US using the new National Security Strategy that was proposed by the Bush administration. One of the key features of the National Security strategy was the justification that the US could preemptively strike targets nations that it deemed a threat to the security of the US. In order to justify the invasion of Iraq, the governmental leaders in the US claimed that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al-Qaeda and other terror groups, as well as using Saddam’s use of chemical weapons as legitimization for the war. Once the war began on March 20, 2003, the original

Starting during the 1970s, factions of American conservatives slowly came together to form a new and more radical dissenting conservative movement, the New Right. The New Right was just as radical as its liberal opposite, with agendas to increase government involvement beyond the established conservative view of government’s role. Although New Right politicians made admirable advances to dissemble New Deal economic policies, the movement as a whole counters conservativism and the ideologies that America was founded on. Although the New Right adopts conservative economic ideologies, its social agenda weakened the conservative movement by focusing public attention to social and cultural issues that have no place within the established Old

The New Right has significantly revised the relationship between conservatism and tradition, however. The New Right attempts to fuse economic libertarianism with state and social authoritarianism. As such, it is a blend of radical, reactionary and traditional features. Its radicalism is evident in its robust efforts to dismantle or ‘roll back’ interventionist government and liberal social values. This radicalism is clearest in relation to the liberal New Right, which draws on rational theories and abstract principles, and so dismisses tradition. New Right radicalism is nevertheless reactionary in that both the liberal and conservative New Right hark back to a 19th century ‘golden age’ of supposed economic prosperity and moral fortitude. However, the conservative New Right also makes an appeal to tradition, particularly through its emphasis on so-called ‘traditional values’.

Since the year 2001 the United States has been under the presidency of a republican, George W. Bush. His has a position in a number of issues including abortion, immigration, the Iraqi war, health care, and social security. On the abortion issue he believes that we should ban partial-birth abortion and reduce abortions altogether and he supports adult stem-cell research but not embryonic stem cell research. He believes that the government should have a responsibility over Medicare and Medicaid. On the topic of social security he suggests that younger workers should be able to put part of their payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts. With the war in Iraq, President Bush is guided on the principle of "return on success" and we

United States policy towards the Iran-Iraq war was interesting to say the least. While the United States claimed to be a neutral party, they supported Iraq for the majority of the war, supported Iran for a brief period, then went back to only supporting Iraq. Both sides committed numerous atrocities and war crimes, and for the most part received little to no American condemnation. Through this essay, I will explore the reasons for the US involvement, and their responses to a number of war crimes, particularly Iraq’s use of chemical weapons throughout the war.

The difference between Dallek and Jenkins’s views was that while Jenkins believed that Reagan was not starting a revolution and only gave form and direction to it, Dallek thought that Reagan started the revolution and the long term effects of the presidency were not good. Dallek said “some of Bush’s biggest failures are traceable to Reagan’s controversial approach to tax cuts, business regulation, national security, and social issues.” This, however, is hard to prove true because Bush’s presidency was driven by foreign policy and he raised taxes from where Reagan had lowered them to. The Berlin Wall fell early in Bush’s presidency as well as the Soviet Union and also Bush militarily occupied Panama during his tenure. Bush negotiated weapon limitation treaties with Russia and intervened in the Gulf war when Iraq refused to pull its forces out of Kuwait. Bush was more focused on foreign politics rather than domestic policy. Although the aftershock of the crisis of 1987 may have affected Bush’s chance to win the election of 1992, Bush did not seem to make a large attempt to revive the economy during his presidency. The crisis of 1987 happened in Reagan’s presidency so it could be said that the crisis caused Bush to fail but Bush did not act to bring the economy back

George W Bush’s presidency can be associated with an infamous term that stood out from the State of the Union address, that term being ‘Axis of Evil’. In this context, Bush categorised the countries of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as being ‘evil’ states. This neoconservative comment left little doubt as to what Bush’s foreign policy towards these states was going be (Baxter and Akbarzadeh, 2008). This comment would then define George W Bush’s presidency, due to the controversy over this phrase and the results that it would have on US foreign policy as “rarely had such a rhetorical device had such devastating consequences” (Ansari, 2006:186). This paper will argue how the use of the word ‘evil’, and the categorisation of these ‘evil’ countries, had a large impact on US-Iran relations.

The 1950s in America are often described as a time of complacency. By contrast, the 1960s and 1970s were a time of great change. But the economy of the 70s was not stable because of the Oil crisis and presidents did not seem to find a solution to get the economy work again. For the right, the federal government had been spending too much money on the social programs. Conservatism believes that the best way to run a society is to maintain social and political framework and that the government should be as limited as possible,

He had started a fund to inspire technologies that would help the disabled (www.urondisplay.com page 1). In March of 2003, George W. Bush had officially signed the Medicare Act (Rumsch, BreAnn page 6). Bush established a 2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems (www.urondisplay.com page 2). Bush signed the largest nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia (www.urondisplay.com page 3). Bush shut down Clinton’s “ergonomic” rules that would have collapsed every home business in America (www.urondisplay.com page 1). Less than four hours before the President’s arrival in Great Falls, Max Baucus, in which was a Democrat, made a riot to attack Bush’s “privatized” Social Security (Draper, Robert page 300). George W. Bush reversed Clinton’s move to strike Reagan’s anti-abortion Mexico Policy (www.urondisplay.com page 1). He banned partial-birth birth abortion (by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe V. Wade) (www.urondisplay.com page 1). George supported permanent elimination of the death tax (www.urondisplay.com page 1). He was in the process of permanently eliminating the IRS marriage penalty (www.urondisplay.com page 1). Even though he had signed defensive and security contracts, America still had foreign

George W Bush led the U.S response on the 9/11 terrorist attacks and initiated (Caused) the Iraq War. But before he was president he was a businessman. In 1999 George started his quest for presidency against Al Gore .December 12, 2000 at 10pm the Supreme Court ruling that the Republican Candidate, “George W Bush”

The challenge to a variety of political and social issues distinctly characterizes the post World War II (WWII) era, from the mid 1940’s through the 1970’s, in the United States. These issues included African-American civil rights, women’s rights, the threat of Communism, and America’s continuous war effort by entering the Cold War immediately after the end to WWII. These debated issues led to the birth of multiple social movements, collectively referred to as the New Left, rooted in liberalism. In response to the New Left, a strong brand of conservatism, collectively referred to as the Right, arose to counteract these movements. Despite opposing ideology and convictions,

Bush’s legacy as president has been debated politically among scholars since he left office back in 2009. Bush gained the support of many Americans due to all that was accomplished as president and the legacy he left behind can be seen as beneficial to the United States regarding growth in the economy, war in the Middle East, and the overall well being of the American people. In contrast, some people do not concur with all the decisions that Bush made. Those who are anti-Bush see his two terms as a failure because of the multiple mistakes made that were not beneficial to the United States. Seven articles were written to display facts and examples that criticize, support, and give an opinion somewhere in-between: “George W. Bush’s Damaging Legacy:

Conservatism is a set of principles that focus on traditional values and moderation. It was a political idea that arose out of international and domestic conflicts that the U.S went through in the 1970s. However, it did not start to fully become prominent until the 1980s with the election of Ronald Reagan. The combination of stagflation, a sequence of failures overseas, and the aftermath of Richard Nixon’s presidency; all led to a rise in “a widespread sense of anxiety among Americans and offered conservatives new political opportunities” (Foner, Give Me Liberty, 1041).

George H.W. Bush deserves to be named “Person of the Decade”. He worked hard to follow his own beliefs in what was the right thing to do and achieved amazing things because of that. When dealing with the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachev he established his own methods and plan instead of following Raegan’s. Soon after his plan was established things in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union began to change. The berlin wall collapsed and the communist rule through out Eastern Europe was overthrown. Bush chose to let all of these events happen naturally, cautious not to do anything to make Gorbachev’s position any worse. Bush had the policy review complete and decided to meet with Gorbachev. While in the meeting they laid the basis for completing

After the gulf wars, a ceasefire was negotiated between the United Nations coalition and Iraq. During the ceasefire, the United Nations became aware that Iraq had started a biological warfare program in the 1980s, as well as a chemical warfare program. Upon further investigation, they found that these programs had not continued after the war. As a result, the United States main focus moving forward was the removal of the Saddam regime, their official foreign policy for years to come focused on this goal. With the suspicions that Saddam Hussein had the abilities to acquire weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration going as far as to claim he already had them, the United States and other countries began devising a plan of action. These countries strongly believed that Iraq was a treat to its neighbors and the rest of the world, and that the only solution was to invade Iraq. The United States invading Iraq in 2003 was a turning point in the reason why relationship between Iraq and the United States is the way it is today.