... the back of strong productivity growth, resilient consumer spending and an upswing in corporate profits, it surged in the first three months of 2002. George Bush's $42 billion economic-stimulus bill seemingly came too late. But by the summer the recovery was sputtering. A rash of corporate scandals undermined already weak investor confidence and sent equity markets into turmoil in July 2002 ... to leave office with fewer people in work than when he came into power. Unemployment is not as high as when the first President Bush was defeated by the upstart Bill Clinton in 1992, nor as high ...

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... to remove a leader who does all of the above and also develops and seeks to use weapons of mass destruction. Even during Bill Clinton's presidency this was a problem that posed a threat to the security of the United States. In 1998 Clinton said, " will be more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to ... ...

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... with Cuba, but preventing any future president from lifting the ban without congressional approval in advance. The current New Yorker magazine details the election-year pressures that led President Clinton to sign the bill after Fidel Castro's air force shot down two Cuban-American planes. The UN assembly has condemned the embargo on Cuba. The pope, on his visit to Cuba this ... ...

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... , it became clear that Iraq, underneath Saddam Hussein, was not going to be considered friendly any longer. This culminated in the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, signed by US President Bill Clinton, pledging that the USA was prepared to take decisive action against Iraq until there was a regime change. So all who are against the war on the basis that it is ... ...

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