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Sadly, what was forgotten amid the Bush-era hubris was that America's edge always has been as much moral and economic as military.

Such was the suspicion between most Americans and most Muslims in the Bush era that it did not take much to improve the climate.

Castro said there was a chance for negotiations now that the White House had toned down Bush-era hostility towards Havana.

He said he would let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for the rich, but backed down after the mid-term elections.

And many in the news media played along, acting as if it was somehow uncouth for Democrats even to mention the Bush era and its legacy.

Less than a year after Barack Obama's election, European euphoria over the end of the Bush era is fading.

In an interesting reversal of roles from the Bush era, the Europeans were pushing for the plant to be outed at once, while the U.

Scrapping the Bush-era missile shield was widely seen in Poland as an American attempt to appease Russia at Poland's expense.

The result is an extra fiscal stimulus of $1, 000bn during the next two years rather than letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire.

Furthermore, the office was assuming that certain policies, such as the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, would not be continued.

But with most Democrats strongly opposed to extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest households, even that may be a tough sell.

This tendency is likely to increase in the post-Bush era, leading to a still more fragmented foreign policy.

At this point, one has the suspicion that a McCain administration would have us longing for Bush-era competence.

Yet, taken together, they mark a radical shift away from the Bush era in a manner than bridges the gap between ideology and pragmatism.

Perhaps the biggest difference with the Bush era is in its emphasis on US economic renewal.

To win over Russia, it replaced a Bush-era missile defense plan with one that is just as effective that Moscow finds less threatening.

The root of our current troubles lies in the debt American families ran up during the Bush-era housing bubble.

Unnamed State Department officials have told the media that Bush-era opposition to ratification of the ICC treaty is "under review. "

It will appeal to the millions of Americans who want to put the Bush era behind them with all available speed.

First, Bush-era Democrats weren't nearly as determined to frustrate the majority party, at any cost, as Obama-era Republicans.

The pale wallpaper of the Bush era has been replaced with a two-tone stripe of beige and gold.

And if Congress does nothing, the Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year.

John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, a leading Bush-era hawk, was scathing.

These reductions follow an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts which benefit the nation's wealthiest people.

In sharp contrast to the Bush era, it is European nations that are now arguing for more confrontational policies in the region.

IF EVER a ruling elite seemed to justify the Bush-era doctrine of "preemption" , it is the Kim dynasty in North Korea.

The near-record deficits come as Democrats and Republicans are battling over extending Bush-era tax cuts.

But he also recognises that many of the Bush-era policies were clumsy as well as questionable.

The bill will extend Bush-era tax cuts for another two years.

In the end, all Bush-era tax cuts were extended, without any corresponding tax hikes or spending cuts to offset the fiscal impact.

And this week, President Obama signed an $859 billion package extending Bush-era tax cuts and jobless benefits.

But he is resisting his supporters' demands that Bush-era officials be prosecuted for authorising such methods of interrogation.

Obama's plan would end Bush-era tax cuts for top earners and would limit their deductions.

Could he not have made raising the debt ceiling a condition of extending the Bush-era tax cuts last December?

US President Obama scrapped a Bush-era missile defense plan for Europe.

THE Bush era, with all its calamities and blunders, is over.

They have agreed to extend unemployment benefits while he has extended Bush-era tax cuts for the richest 2 per cent of the country.

That is hypocritical hyperbole: the accusation fits many Bush-era fiscal decisions better.

Other issues, such as the expiry of more than $3, 000bn of Bush-era tax cuts, proved too contentious for any bipartisan consensus to emerge.

He still plans to end the Bush-era tax cuts for those earning more than $250, 000.

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is stepping up his call for Congress to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire,

Sino-American Business Relationship in the George Bush Era