Dick Cheney played a pivotal role in the war on terror, and the US, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan paid a high price, writes TP O’Mahony.

NOBODY’S sure just how many people are going to form the crush in the Mall and line the streets of Washington for tomorrow’s inauguration.

WHAT if the shoe had been on the other foot: George W throwing his at an ungrateful Iraqi?

IT’S CERTAINLY without precedent. Indeed, it’s hard to believe. But it’s a fact. As far as American media is concerned, the valedictory tour of Europe by President George W Bush is of little or no interest compared with Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush has his eye firmly on history, believing he and his actions will be vindicated in the coming years and decades.

HOW gratifying it is to see Tony Blair step into a new role as envoy to the Middle East.

I CONGRATULATE the Irish Examiner for highlighting the fact that we are indeed a Prozac Nation (March 28).

WE all know the expression stealing candy from a baby, and we all know it’s wrong. But someone ought to tell photographer Jill Greenberg whose new exhibition in LA makes ‘art’ out of, well, child abuse.

The dilapidated little bungalow that briefly housed two future US presidents named Bush in California more than a half-century ago will be turned into a museum.

WHEN the Dáil comes back from the summer recess, on September 28, its first order of business should be to nominate an Irish citizen or two for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I LIVED about a year of my life in America. About half of that time was spent on the east coast, and half on the west, mainly in Seattle.

Terry Prone

OUR world woke yesterday morning to news that John Kerry broke away from the pack in the New Hampshire Democratic primary in the American presidential election.

A TRIP to the US is always an interesting experience and nearly always a pleasurable one.

BEHIND the tragedy of Monday’s suicide bombings on the headquarters of the Red Cross in Baghdad, which killed 35 people and wounded 230 others, there lurks the potential for another disaster: the United States might pull out of Iraq too soon.

A NEW President Bush doll is talking tough on terror, and just like the real George W it occasionally makes mistakes.

TO be working in America the week of the anniversary of 9/11 is to notice how much has changed — and how little has changed.

Pop superstar Madonna has defended controversial rapper Eminem’s lyrics, saying they are less offensive than the words of new US president George W Bush.