A chronology of Barack Obama's presidency from an antiwar group's perspective.  ... Ordered ten times more drone strikes than Bush. ...... In a campaign marked by  stinging criticism of President George W. Bush's alleged executive excess, then- candidate Obama wrote: "The President does not have power under the ...
Apr 24, 2013 ... President Obama came into office promising to be the opposite of George W.  Bush, but after nearly five years as commander in chief, his policies are more like  his Republican predecessor than he would care to acknowledge. From drone  strikes in foreign countries to the troop surge in Afghanistan to ...
Mar 19, 2013 ... President Barack Obama came into office four years ago skeptical of pushing the  power of the White House to the limit, especially if it appeared to be ... And he's  done it with a frequency that belies his original campaign criticisms of  predecessor George W. Bush, invites criticisms that he's bypassing the ...
President Barack Obama authorized his first drone strike three days after his  inauguration. Since then ... that were carried out during President George W.  Bush's two terms in the White House. In addition, strikes have ... program more  aggressively than reporters at the other publications, both in terms of the quantity  of articles ...
Nov 24, 2014 ... The strategy against ISIS is derived from the President's experience commanding  the C.I.A.'s drone war in Pakistan, and from similar but less active drone  campaigns in Yemen and .... On September 17, 2001, President George W. Bush  signed a new counterterrorism M.O.N., partly based on Rizzo's input.
Says Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" for criticizing President George W. Bush’s "drone attack program," then using it aggressively as president.