Blog posts tagged "George W Bush"

March 12, 2012 7:43 am 53 Comments

Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, on Afghanistan, British and US military presence there, and the meanings of war.

September 2, 2011 7:20 am 54 Comments

Very bad men and cults that go bad: Jon Snow blogs on Gaddafi and the green that turned to black, tinged with the red blood of those who opposed his dictatorship.

January 5, 2011 11:33 am 42 Comments

The killing in Pakistan of the Governor of Punjab by his own bodyguard on Tuesday, marks a devastating new high water mark both inside and outside that country, blogs Jon Snow.

June 30, 2009 2:57 pm 21 Comments

Iraq is a country I have visited many times since I was first there to report from the front line of the harrowing Iran/iraq war in 1980. Foreign intervention and interference has dogged it for more than a century. No wonder Baghdad is seized with parties and celebration. For the promised American pull-out from Iraq [...]

April 1, 2009 12:21 pm No Comments

This G20 exists at so many levels. Take Brazil’s President Lula. Fearless campaigner against the carbon footprint. But having flown from Brazil to Doha and Doha to Paris, today he abandoned his plane, sending it empty to London while he took the train. But the high spot thus far has been the Obama-Brown press conference. [...]

February 19, 2009 10:53 am No Comments

The Iraqi shoe thrower appeared before a Baghdad court today. A short appearance, as it turned out – the case was quickly adjourned. Muntazer al-Zaidi, the 27 year-old journalist who threw both his shoes at George Bush on the US president’s final visit to Baghdad in December, has not been seen since allegations that he [...]

January 23, 2009 1:13 pm No Comments

Let me explain my ‘nightmare’ comment during Wednesday night’s programme. I’m aware it has been picked up by Daniel Finklestein on the Times website, among others. I’d actually had a conversation with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd just before we went on air in which she used a pithy phrase about the ‘end of [...]

January 21, 2009 5:19 pm No Comments

The euphoria of the Obama swearing-in has very quickly been replaced here in Washington by the sober dawning of new morning. And a gloomy, overshadowed thing it feels to be. The speech he made at the podium beneath the Capitol was less rhetorical and more content-strewn than most had expected, and much of the content [...]

3:13 pm No Comments

Perusing the Washington Post this morning, I find a little something that seems to me to be somewhat prescient. From the heading Read and Weep. There’s always a conflict between end of an era and beginning of an era… (You may have to register – for free – to read the Washington Post link)